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Datadog acquires Quickwit

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Re: Datadog acquires Quickwit

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Post by PittleyDunkin »

maxwellg wrote: post #23

> Mezmo recently put in production Quickwit to serve thousands of customers and petabytes of logs, drastically reducing infrastructure cost and complexity while delivering the same user experience. I can't imagine they feel great about Quickwit getting bought by a competitor after that.

It's a risk you deal with giving back to open source.

The good part for the rest of us is it's a signal that there's likely some appetite for a fork if Datadog screws the pooch.

Re: Datadog acquires Quickwit

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Post by tdubey »

liminal wrote: post #29

We just moved from Elastic to Quickwit. Sigh. What other open source, object storage backed logging databases do people recommend?

Loki by Grafana Labs is nice (https://grafana.com/oss/loki/). There was a time (3+ years ago) where the product was changing pretty rapidly and much of the documentation was on git, so we had a few headaches doing minor version bumps, but I believe its much more mature now.

Re: Datadog acquires Quickwit

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Post by orf »

scop wrote: post #30

I hate Datadog. We use their name as an epithet at our company for how not to sell/market. Their selling tactics circa 2015-2018 completely burned us out. Endless calls and emails. The icing on the cake was an AWS reInvent presentation on Lambda right when lambda was first announced. We were pumped to get in on lambda early. Got the whole crew to attend the talk. Turned out to be a rudimentary copy of a Barr "lambda…

What does any of that have to do with the actual product?

Re: Datadog acquires Quickwit

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Post by zerd »

winrid wrote: post #7
bk146 wrote: post #2

Curious what Datadog is going to build with this tech. Believe this company pitching themselves as OSS competitor to Datadog a few months ago.

I could only imagine they want to replace their existing infra with this as a potential cost saving measure.

The architecture of Husky seems fairly similar to quickwit. https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/introducing-husky... https://quickwit.io/docs/main-branch/overview/architecture

Re: Datadog acquires Quickwit

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Post by scop »

orf wrote: post #33
scop wrote: post #30

I hate Datadog. We use their name as an epithet at our company for how not to sell/market. Their selling tactics circa 2015-2018 completely burned us out. Endless calls and emails. The icing on the cake was an AWS reInvent presentation on Lambda right when lambda was first announced. We were pumped to get in on lambda early. Got the whole crew to attend the talk. Turned out to be a rudimentary copy of a Barr "lambda…

What does any of that have to do with the actual product?

It made me extremely distrustful of any and all interactions I would have with an employee. Is every email I send to my rep going to turn into an upsell? Are they being straight with me in answering my question?

Re: Datadog acquires Quickwit

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Post by film42 »

orf wrote: post #33
scop wrote: post #30

I hate Datadog. We use their name as an epithet at our company for how not to sell/market. Their selling tactics circa 2015-2018 completely burned us out. Endless calls and emails. The icing on the cake was an AWS reInvent presentation on Lambda right when lambda was first announced. We were pumped to get in on lambda early. Got the whole crew to attend the talk. Turned out to be a rudimentary copy of a Barr "lambda…

What does any of that have to do with the actual product?

The product itself is very good, but the sales process is truly awful. Random calls with non-technical reps unable to answer basic questions like, "now that you've added this to my GCP account for 2 weeks, how much is this going to cost?" They'd say they're not sure but they have a startup deal with $xxxx minimum commit for 12 months gets you two months of extra trial, cancel anytime no questions asked. It's not just bad, it's comically bad.

Re: Datadog acquires Quickwit

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Post by o0-0o »

psanford wrote: post #19

Happy that Quickwit is going to Apache 2. Sad that the team won't be working on it anymore. I loved that I was able to setup Quickwit on AWS lambda and have a good cloud based search engine for $0.01 / month.

Interesting comment. Any thoughts on what you can use now?

Re: Datadog acquires Quickwit

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Post by bdcravens »

jhgg wrote: post #21

Hoping this leads to datadog launching a logging solution that does not cost an arm and a leg at scale.

Based on my experience with them, this isn't a technical or product issue, but a cultural one. (DD is very sales-driven, in a bad way)

Re: Datadog acquires Quickwit

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Post by ipaddr »

orf wrote: post #33
scop wrote: post #30

I hate Datadog. We use their name as an epithet at our company for how not to sell/market. Their selling tactics circa 2015-2018 completely burned us out. Endless calls and emails. The icing on the cake was an AWS reInvent presentation on Lambda right when lambda was first announced. We were pumped to get in on lambda early. Got the whole crew to attend the talk. Turned out to be a rudimentary copy of a Barr "lambda…

What does any of that have to do with the actual product?

That is their product. You want to cancel? Send the army of clowns.
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