we've been pretty happy with just a Clickhouse DB and sending metrics directly from api servers to Clickhouse HTTP https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/interfaces/http . Hook up Grafana and you have a nice raw SQL (our team loves SQL) Grafana dashboard.
Show HN: OneUptime – open-source Datadog Alternative
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Re: Show HN: OneUptime – open-source Datadog Alternative
#52Is 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 ma…
Before I had a chance to work with datadog, I generally operated Prometheus / Grafana as it's basically industry standard in k8s. The ability for an application to publish it's own often very detailed metrics and have those auto scrape is powerful.
Learning that datadog charges these as custom metrics was shocking. This opens a wormhole of allow-list or opt-in considerations, and then there is tag cardinality or even introducing a middleware like vector. It feels very backwards to spend effort on reducing observability.
If datadog was crap it would make things easier, but it really is a fantastic product, and a business after all. Prometheus integration is just so very cumbersome which is probably strategic I would imagine.
Re: Show HN: OneUptime – open-source Datadog Alternative
#53I 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 should also check out SigNoz [1], we are an open-core alternative to DataDog - based natively on OpenTelemetry. We also have a cloud product if you don't want to host yourself [1] https://signoz.io
Nobody wants open-core. The people you'd think would be into it want full MIT.
Re: Show HN: OneUptime – open-source Datadog Alternative
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
You dont have to host it if you dont want to, we have a SaaS service as well at https://oneuptime.com
I understand this is probably not a priority or concern at all, but FYI this is what the page looks like with uBlock Origin configured as what they call "hard mode:" https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/my2pc6adm87.mp4
do you know which adlist is blocking the assets?
Re: Show HN: OneUptime – open-source Datadog Alternative
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 ma…
Correct. Same as New Relic. I'd love an open source alternative. But there just isn't one for APM (which is our main use case). Nothing comes close. Every time I see "OpenTelemetry integration" I just close the page. Hours and hours of manual setup, code pushes, etc while New Relic installs once and works. I assume it's the same for people who use DataDog begrudgingly.
FWIW most of OTel is pretty easy to use and set up too. OTel Operator over K8s that installs autoinstrumentation agents for 5 languages --> pretty easy onboarding.
Re: Show HN: OneUptime – open-source Datadog Alternative
#56Do you not offer Arm images for the various services? For folks wanting to run this stack, I'd imagine some of them are interested in running on Arm for better cost optimization. Maybe it doesn't matter for how lightweight the services may be.
Re: Show HN: OneUptime – open-source Datadog Alternative
#57If using the Helm chart to install, does it also automatically monitor the cluster that oneuptime is installed on? Didn't see the Kubernetes integration docs
Kuberetes integration is coming soon. Its on our roadmap.
Re: Show HN: OneUptime – open-source Datadog Alternative
#58I make apps call home and aggregate incoming pings in grafana, because some of them are behind a vpn.
We have Incoming Request monitor for this. OR you can deploy custom probes in your private network. https://oneuptime.com/docs/probe/custom-probe
Re: Show HN: OneUptime – open-source Datadog Alternative
#59If you self-host, do you still need a paid plan? Are there any limitations?
No, and never will be.
100% of what we do is FOSS.
Re: Show HN: OneUptime – open-source Datadog Alternative
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
You dont have to host it if you dont want to, we have a SaaS service as well at https://oneuptime.com
I understand this is probably not a priority or concern at all, but FYI this is what the page looks like with uBlock Origin configured as what they call "hard mode:" https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/my2pc6adm87.mp4
Maybe its blocking tailwind files. Let me fix this. Ty for reporting.