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Re: Show HN: OneUptime – open-source Datadog Alternative

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Post by jcims »

blitzar wrote: post #7

Is that all datadog is? I read the horror stories, the monthly bills of 10's of thousands for one server and just assumed there was something more substantial to the product; like they did something groundbreaking or novel. I never cared enough to actually look and see what they did. I use uptime-kuma - https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma - it obviously does a fraction of what these other things do but it does ev…

Datadog is a pretty amazing product and the folks that build it should be proud of what they have done. BUT it's extremely expensive and most people don't use all the features. It's like Splunk, 99% of people havent invested the time or energy to get the full value of the product they are paying for.

Re: Show HN: OneUptime – open-source Datadog Alternative

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Post by devneelpatel »

anonzzzies wrote: post #12

What does it use for integration/workflow; frontend seems theirs but backend seems not in the repos. I saw more solutions like this boasting ‘5000+’ integrations but I cannot find the code for that (I might have missed it)?

I believe this is what you're looking for: https://oneuptime.com/product/workflows

OneUptime is 100% open source, and always will be. It's a mono-repo and backend is divided into few services.

Re: Show HN: OneUptime – open-source Datadog Alternative

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Post by anonzzzies »

devneelpatel wrote: post #13
anonzzzies wrote: post #12

What does it use for integration/workflow; frontend seems theirs but backend seems not in the repos. I saw more solutions like this boasting ‘5000+’ integrations but I cannot find the code for that (I might have missed it)?

I believe this is what you're looking for: https://oneuptime.com/product/workflows OneUptime is 100% open source, and always will be. It's a mono-repo and backend is divided into few services.

I guess I should get into the chat with you, but I meant; you integrate with, let’s say, Jira; there is no jira calling code in the repos, so how does that happen. Bit too in depth for here maybe.

Re: Show HN: OneUptime – open-source Datadog Alternative

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Post by phillipcarter »

blitzar wrote: post #7

Is that all datadog is? I read the horror stories, the monthly bills of 10's of thousands for one server and just assumed there was something more substantial to the product; like they did something groundbreaking or novel. I never cared enough to actually look and see what they did. I use uptime-kuma - https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma - it obviously does a fraction of what these other things do but it does ev…

Just about every advertised Datadog alternative does maybe 10% of what Datadog can do, and likely has hundreds less pluggable integrations than Datadog. While it may be the case that it's overkill for a simple application, one of the biggest benefits to Datadog is that there's an integration for just about anything, and the product can go deep if you need it to.

The "omg my bill is out of control" issue is usually manifest from a few sources, one of the biggest is relying heavily on custom metrics added over time, and so you think you're paying X but really you end up paying 2-3X or more by the end of the year. But the tricky thing is, most of those things that cost a lot of money either have a lot of value, or held a lot of value at the time.

(I work for a Datadog competitor)

Re: Show HN: OneUptime – open-source Datadog Alternative

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Post by devneelpatel »

anonzzzies wrote: post #14
devneelpatel wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe this is what you're looking for: https://oneuptime.com/product/workflows OneUptime is 100% open source, and always will be. It's a mono-repo and backend is divided into few services.

I guess I should get into the chat with you, but I meant; you integrate with, let’s say, Jira; there is no jira calling code in the repos, so how does that happen. Bit too in depth for here maybe.

Oh yes! there's no native Jira integration so far - but we have some customers who already integrate oneuptime with Jira. They integrate Jira through workflow webhooks in OneUptime - so when an issue is created in Jira, incident is created in OneUptime and all Status Page subscribers are notified.

Re: Show HN: OneUptime – open-source Datadog Alternative

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Post by bibliotekka »

jascha_eng wrote: post #2

I always liked Datadog as a product but it's also true that it is simply way too expensive if you don't spend significant time cost optimizing. But hosting it myself doesn't really seem like a great solution, I rather invest time in making my app robust than making my monitoring stable.

expensive and totally weird pricing structures make it hard to predict costs

Re: Show HN: OneUptime – open-source Datadog Alternative

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Post by devneelpatel »

remram wrote: post #3

How does this compare to the usual Grafana stack?

Some of the differences are:

Grafana started as visualization tool and has now decoupled multiple products for observability - LGTM stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics). You need to configure and maintain multiple sub-products for a full-stack observability setup.

While grafana stack is great, OneUptime has all of these in one platform and makes it really simple to use.

We also are built natively on OpenTelmetry, use clickhouse for logs / metrics / traces storage - so queries are really fast.

Re: Show HN: OneUptime – open-source Datadog Alternative

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Post by devneelpatel »

blitzar wrote: post #7

Is that all datadog is? I read the horror stories, the monthly bills of 10's of thousands for one server and just assumed there was something more substantial to the product; like they did something groundbreaking or novel. I never cared enough to actually look and see what they did. I use uptime-kuma - https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma - it obviously does a fraction of what these other things do but it does ev…

Oddly enough, this is why we started OneUptime in the first place. We were burned by the DataDog bill and wanted an open source observability platform ourselves.
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