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doesn't have to be, they could sustain losses and count it as a marketing expense.
How is this even legal? Afaik in EU this kind of business practices are illegal.
In the United States - the thing that gets close attention is any attempt to coordinate to increase prices, even if that results in increased competition.
Decreasing prices to reduce competition gets a pass over here.
Prometheus clusters/scaling/federation can be challenging to manage at scale, but Im a but surprised at how relatively popular Datadog is given its price and how feature rich prometheus is. Does anyone here have experience with both? Prometheus strikes me as one of the most amazing recent pieces of open source tech, the query language in particular (while hard to grok for beginners) was such an eye opener early in my…
Prometheus clusters/scaling/federation can be challenging to manage at scale, but Im a but surprised at how relatively popular Datadog is given its price and how feature rich prometheus is. Does anyone here have experience with both? Prometheus strikes me as one of the most amazing recent pieces of open source tech, the query language in particular (while hard to grok for beginners) was such an eye opener early in my…
For an example of annoying behavior in datadog:
* Zoom in on any chart with default_zero. Eventually the spaces between the points will go to zero. You have to add a rollup whenever you use default_zero to avoid this.
* In general, you have very little control over interpolation, which is a very important part of aggregating and graphing.
* exclude_null will remove any series with any null label. You can't write arbitrary filters on series labels.
* Label names and values have to be the same to match. E.g. you can't join 2 metrics where different labels have the same value.
* The GUI doesn't support a lot of the features, e.g. timeshift.
* The available functions often can't be composed. E.g. you can't min by X and then sum.
I have a ton of complaints about the GUI too (e.g. it's broken by typing too fast), but I'll save those for later.
The GitHub survey showed that datadog is eating Prometheus market share very quickly.
Considering that one is free and that the other is not cheap, I'd like to see some data demonstrating this since common sense would dictate otherwise.
And the customers for this are businesses. Businesses spend money. (as opposed to what a lot of developers think)
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Considering that one is free and that the other is not cheap, I'd like to see some data demonstrating this since common sense would dictate otherwise.
Nothing is actually free And the customers for this are businesses. Businesses spend money. (as opposed to what a lot of developers think)
Some Product Managers must be having a really bad day. AWS is usually super secret about the profit margin on their various cloud services, but now we know that the margin on Prometheus was at least 84%...
Not necessarily. They might be doing this to get more customers on it since they're losing to Datadog. Amazon has a long history of being willing to eat a ton of loss to kill competition like in the very popular diapers.com business.
Some Product Managers must be having a really bad day. AWS is usually super secret about the profit margin on their various cloud services, but now we know that the margin on Prometheus was at least 84%...