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

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Post by jefc1111 »

mikeshi42 wrote: post #79
jefc1111 wrote: post #55

Hey, cool product. I know that marketing success is not predicated on good grammar, nevertheless I felt moved to suggest a minor edit to your blurb: "HyperDX helps engineers figure out why production is broken, faster. HyperDX centralises and correlates logs, metrics, traces, exceptions and session replays in one place." Good luck!

Thank you! I'm assuming this is in reference to our README? (Sorry I'm a _tad_ lacking in sleep) If so, would you like to open a PR? I'm also happy to edit it myself but of course don't want to be stealing credit if you'd like to be attributed that way.

That's very thoughtful, but my suggested edit is all yours if you want it :)

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

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Post by yaleman »

Kiro wrote: post #148
snowstormsun wrote: post #144

https://sso.tax/

Not applicable when the base offering is free and open source. The SSO is in the base pricing in this case.

It's literally a big red X on the OSS version, so no, it's not "in the base pricing".

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

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Post by e12e »

mikeshi42 wrote: post #142
cheema33 wrote: post #140

I am new to this space and was considering a self hosted install of Sentry software. Sentry is also opensource and appears to be similar to datadog and HyperDX in some ways. Do you know Sentry and can you tell us how your product is different? Thanks.

Very familiar with Sentry! I think we have a bit of overlap in that we both do monitoring and help devs debug though here's where I think we differ: HyperDX: - Can collect all server logs (to help debug issues even if an exception isn't thrown) - We can collect server metrics as well (CPU, memory, etc.) - We accept OpenTelemetry for all your data (logs, metrics, traces) - meaning you only need to instrument once and…

Does that mean hyperdx doesn't (yet) support exception logs?

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

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Post by darkwater »

candiddevmike wrote: post #88
darkwater wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honest question: where do you see they are VC backed?

It's on the front page of the app, the company behind this (DeploySentinel) is YC backed: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/deploysentinel . The original product seems like some kind of CI tool. Interestingly, it seems like "HyperDX" might've been part of their original product offering that they decided to open source--their main website ( https://www.deploysentinel.com ) doesn't include any references to "Hyp…

Thanks! I would have expected from them a (YC YYYY) in the title then.

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

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Post by mdaniel »

cheema33 wrote: post #140

I am new to this space and was considering a self hosted install of Sentry software. Sentry is also opensource and appears to be similar to datadog and HyperDX in some ways. Do you know Sentry and can you tell us how your product is different? Thanks.

> Sentry is also opensource

Well, pedantically the 5 year old version of Sentry is open source, sure

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

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Post by pighive »

carlio wrote: post #126
corytheboyd wrote: post #124

Outside of the intended use-case of _replacing_ Datadog, I think this may actually serve as an excellent local development "Datadog Lite", which I have always wanted, and is something embarrassingly, sorely missing from local development environments. In local development environments, I want to: - Verify that tracing and metrics (if you use OpenTelemetry) actually work as intended (through an APM-like UI). - Have so…

I use InfluxDB for this, it comes with a frontend UI and you can configure Telefraf as a statsd listener, so the same metric ingestion as datadog pretty much. There are docker containers for these, which I have added to my docker-compose for local dev. I think it does log ingestion too, I haven't ever used that, I mostly use it just for the metrics and graphing.

Do you mind sharing any publicly available examples of this set up on github or somewhere? TIA

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

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Post by btown »

mikeshi42 wrote: post #98
btown wrote: post #85

The union of session replay and OpenTelemetry is fascinating - because what is a browser session, really, other than a sequence of RPCs between backend (micro)services API server(s) browser human at the keyboard? Being able to see that a user bounced because they couldn't handle the input that they were seeing - is it all that different from a service erroring because it cannot handle a certain type of input? Honeyco…

Oh yeah browsers are really just another service (and that's what we try to treat it as, as well!) and it's really the same set of questions you'd ask of any service, but for some reason the tooling completely stops either at the frontend or at the backend. As for monospace font - feedback received! Is there a particular section you think is too overwhelming? (search page, nav bar, etc.) We've been thinking of how ca…

Perhaps it's more that when the search page primarily has non-error events (as in your demo), it's entirely a sea of white characters that all look the same, and trying to scan it for patterns with one's eyes can be fatiguing. Being able to color columns and values in different ways might help a lot - say, by the intensity of a numeric value like duration, or assigning distinct pastel colors to different services or prefixes like GET/POST.

You all are doing really cool things to discover patterns, link traces, etc. - I'd hate someone's takeaway from the demo page to be that the skill level required to make use of HyperDX is akin to needing to spot hair colors from looking at the same-colored code of the Matrix!

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

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Post by pighive »

jamesmcintyre wrote: post #3

This looks really promising, will definitely look into using this for a project i'm working on! Btw I've used both datadog and newrelic in large-scale production apps and for the costs I still am not very impressed by the dx/ux. If hyperdx can undercut price and deliver parity features/dx (or above) i can easily see this doing well in the market. Good luck!

What does dx/ux mean in this context? Data Diagnostics?
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