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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.
I may be cynical here, but I find that all open source datadog alternatives are mostly frontend focussed with an out of the box database. And it does not scale well. It's not easy to maintain, scale, shard etc. Am I wrong? P.S. I am all for OSS.
Repository: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit Latest release: https://quickwit.io/blog/quickwit-0.8
I may be cynical here, but I find that all open source datadog alternatives are mostly frontend focussed with an out of the box database. And it does not scale well. It's not easy to maintain, scale, shard etc. Am I wrong? P.S. I am all for OSS.
presumably that is the right place to start for a datadog competitor because ddog is not going to care about smol instances that arent at scale that they can’t charge a bajillion for
Lot of interesting OSS observability products coming out in recent years. One of the more impressive(and curious for many reasons) IMHO is OpenObserve: https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve . As opposed to just a stack, they are implementing just about the whole backend shebang from scratch.
I've been working with an enterprise license for a year and while I don't really hear too much about cost, some simple considerations to the design of the infrastructure it was supporting seems to have prevented a ballooning bill (so far).
So for me, not having the engineering time or buy-in to build a whole home grown observability platform by using OSS tools like this (and all the quirks that can come with them) ends up being a lot more expensive than just sucking it up and buying an enterprise plan. At least so far.
If I had the option to do it from scratch how I wanted, with no time or budget constraints, I'd prefer of course not to be beholden to a major SaaS company that charges for ambiguous things that are hard to predict like "per host", because it's quite easy for these services to bury themselves so deep into your infrastructure that you just bite the bullet on whatever inevitable rug pull or price increase comes next. It has happened to me before managing enterprise Hashicorp Vault.
Lot of interesting OSS observability products coming out in recent years. One of the more impressive(and curious for many reasons) IMHO is OpenObserve: https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve . As opposed to just a stack, they are implementing just about the whole backend shebang from scratch.
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.
You dont have to host it if you dont want to, we have a SaaS service as well at https://oneuptime.com