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Re: Show HN: HyperDX – open-source dev-friendly Datadog alternative

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Just want to heap on with the praise here and say that this was definitely the best experience I've had with any tool trying to add monitoring for a Next.js full-stack application. The Client Sessions tab where I, out of the box, can correlate front-end actions and back-end operations for a particular user is especially nice. Great job!

Thank you. This means a lot to us.

Re: Show HN: HyperDX – open-source dev-friendly Datadog alternative

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First paragraph https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx "HyperDX helps engineers figure out why production is broken faster by centralizing and correlating logs, metrics, traces, exceptions and session replays in one place. An open source and developer-friendly alternative to Datadog and New Relic." Just perfect. Bravo. -- As a merc, I never understood the why of Datadog (or equiv). The teams and projects I rotated thru…

Yes! It should definitely be thoughtful about what you log and how you expect to use it. My biggest gripe with logs is often people writing them never think about "how would I use this when things are on fire?" and tend to log useless information or fail to tag them in ways that are actually searchable.

Tagging the right IDs are a huge thing - customer X is saying their instance is really slow, but if none of your logs let you link service performance to customer X, your telemetry you're paying for is absolutely useless!

You have an ally in me on this one :) I'm hoping given a bit more time we get to write things like this - practical observability from the perspective of a dev, as opposed to the SRE angle that I think is well covered. Feel free to join us on discord btw if you want to chat more - I (for better/worse) love musing about these things :)

Re: Show HN: HyperDX – open-source dev-friendly Datadog alternative

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We should have both! If you hover over a property value, a magnify/plus icon come up to allow you to search on that property value (no manual facets required) - and our traces all come with delicious flame graphs :) Let me know if you were thinking of something different. One other thing I think you'd love if you're coming from Datadog is that you're able to full text search on structured logs as well, so even if the…

Well - the worst thing about Datadog is the sales process :-) But I'll save that for my memoirs. I seem to remember at the time their K8s/Helm integration was a little buggy, but no other pain than that. Plugging our software in was very easy, I recall. We had Python in the backend and we just installed their software and wired it into our API services. I also remember they had a consumer for Auth0 via Auth0's log st…

Awesome, let me know what you think when you get a chance to take a look!

Re: Show HN: HyperDX – open-source dev-friendly Datadog alternative

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I'm interested. Datadog is cool but the price is ridiculously high for small orgs.

Agreed! It's per-host pricing can obliterate budgets if you use a fleet of small instances (which is crazy to me their pricing dictates your infra...)

Would love to have you check us out! Let me know if you run into any issues - feel free to hop on our discord as well :)

Re: Show HN: HyperDX – open-source dev-friendly Datadog alternative

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Wow, there is a lot here and what here is to a pretty impressive level of polish for how far along this is. The background of someone with a DX background comes through! I will be looking into this a lot more. Here are a few comments, notes, and questions: * I like the focus on DX (especially compared to other OSS solutions) in your messaging here, and I think your hero messaging tells that story, but it isn't reinfo…

Clickhouse is proprietary, though.

I wonder why not Apache Druid

Re: Show HN: HyperDX – open-source dev-friendly Datadog alternative

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First paragraph https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx "HyperDX helps engineers figure out why production is broken faster by centralizing and correlating logs, metrics, traces, exceptions and session replays in one place. An open source and developer-friendly alternative to Datadog and New Relic." Just perfect. Bravo. -- As a merc, I never understood the why of Datadog (or equiv). The teams and projects I rotated thru…

> I'd like some cookbooks or blue prints which show some idealized logging strategies, with depictions of common enough troubleshooting scenarios.

> "Hey, team mates, you know what'd be really great?! Correlation IDs! So we can see how an action percolates thru our system!"

Hi, I'm building, Doctor Droid -- https://drdroid.io/ that enables you join structured application logs via correlation IDs and then build multiple types of rules / frameworks on it -- some are at granular level and some are at aggregate levels (like funnels).

We are early in the development lifecycle, would love to hear your feedback / connect with you.

Re: Show HN: HyperDX – open-source dev-friendly Datadog alternative

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This looks really cool, congrats on the launch! I haven’t had time to dig in proper, but this seems like something that would fit perfectly for “local dev” logging as well. I struggled to find a good solution for this, ending up Winston -> JSON, with a simpler “dump to terminal” script running. (The app I’m building does a ton of “in the background” work, and I wanted to present both “user interactions” and “backgrou…

Thank you! We do support Winston (docs: https://www.hyperdx.io/docs/install/javascript#winston-trans... ) and use it a lot internally. Let me know if you run into any issues with it (or have suggestions on how to make it more clear) In fact this is actually how we develop locally - because even our local stack is comparatively noisy, we enable self-logging in HyperDX so our local logs/traces go to our own dev instanc…

Oh sweet! I was in a bit of a hurry and must’ve missed it, thanks for clarifying. This will be super helpful for us, very excited play with it!

Re: Show HN: HyperDX – open-source dev-friendly Datadog alternative

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post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you! We do support Winston (docs: https://www.hyperdx.io/docs/install/javascript#winston-trans... ) and use it a lot internally. Let me know if you run into any issues with it (or have suggestions on how to make it more clear) In fact this is actually how we develop locally - because even our local stack is comparatively noisy, we enable self-logging in HyperDX so our local logs/traces go to our own dev instanc…

Oh sweet! I was in a bit of a hurry and must’ve missed it, thanks for clarifying. This will be super helpful for us, very excited play with it!

No worries - excited to hear what you think! Feel free to drop by our discord if you run into any issues or have any other feedback as well :)
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