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OpenTelemetry: Escape Hatch from the Observability Cartel

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Re: OpenTelemetry: Escape Hatch from the Observability Cartel

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yread wrote: post #52
nijave wrote: post #29

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I thought New Relic was pretty good but their per seat license cost is super high They have a SQL like query language that I think can do most of what you're describing

I use New Relic and I'm not sure I would recommend it. Sure it was easy to install on all the server but now I keep getting alerts every months (on like the 2nd day) that I ran out of some "quota" of 100GB. I thought that's impossible as I almost don't use it but apparently they (used to) send by default list of running processes every second and that gunks things up. Also I setup alerts - for >50% CPU or >90% disk f…

That's really a problem with all of them (generating too much data which ends up being expensive) but defaults definitely could have been better/more clear there

Re: OpenTelemetry: Escape Hatch from the Observability Cartel

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jitl wrote: post #35
nijave wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought New Relic was pretty good but their per seat license cost is super high They have a SQL like query language that I think can do most of what you're describing

I want improvements like “dropdown menu of tags not limited to 50 items” and “one button forecast on any graph”. Unsure if any SQL query language will solve my annoyance that stuff in Datadog was one click, and in Grafana is 14 clicks or impossible without referencing a Book of the Arcane. Heck I’m dying for “I can copy a graph between dashboards”. Grafana allows this but if any variable is in the graph but doesn’t e…

For Grafana graphs, I think there's a graph library feature that solves that problem but it's been a couple years since I seriously used Grafana so don't remember the specifics

As for forecasting/trends, usually that's offloaded to the underlying data storage system so really depends on where the data is being stored (Prometheus, Influx, Mimir, Elastic, etc)

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