Backend and data engineers, what analytics tools do you use to instrument your backend? What is your stack and DB? What are you tracking?
Ask HN: How is your backend instrumented?
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Re: Ask HN: How is your backend instrumented?
#2Was using datadog's APM to track the transactions and our API usage. But because we are using GC AppEngine, we had to use a workaround by installing the agent on a separate VM. Then we found out that we will have to pay for APM and that VM too, not just APM, so we left it.
We tried newrelic before, it was good, but datadog seemed like a complete solution (and has better design).
Actually I am surprised that there is no high quality open source APM.
Re: Ask HN: How is your backend instrumented?
#3Was using datadog's APM to track the transactions and our API usage. But because we are using GC AppEngine, we had to use a workaround by installing the agent on a separate VM. Then we found out that we will have to pay for APM and that VM too, not just APM, so we left it. We tried newrelic before, it was good, but datadog seemed like a complete solution (and has better design). Actually I am surprised that there is…
What about product analytics?
Re: Ask HN: How is your backend instrumented?
#4Was using datadog's APM to track the transactions and our API usage. But because we are using GC AppEngine, we had to use a workaround by installing the agent on a separate VM. Then we found out that we will have to pay for APM and that VM too, not just APM, so we left it. We tried newrelic before, it was good, but datadog seemed like a complete solution (and has better design). Actually I am surprised that there is…
Huh? Prometheus definitely exists.
Re: Ask HN: How is your backend instrumented?
#5Was using datadog's APM to track the transactions and our API usage. But because we are using GC AppEngine, we had to use a workaround by installing the agent on a separate VM. Then we found out that we will have to pay for APM and that VM too, not just APM, so we left it. We tried newrelic before, it was good, but datadog seemed like a complete solution (and has better design). Actually I am surprised that there is…
Huh? Prometheus definitely exists.
I don't find it easy to use. I want something like existing APM SaaS.
Re: Ask HN: How is your backend instrumented?
#6Was using datadog's APM to track the transactions and our API usage. But because we are using GC AppEngine, we had to use a workaround by installing the agent on a separate VM. Then we found out that we will have to pay for APM and that VM too, not just APM, so we left it. We tried newrelic before, it was good, but datadog seemed like a complete solution (and has better design). Actually I am surprised that there is…
What about product analytics?
Heap is great.
Re: Ask HN: How is your backend instrumented?
#7Was using datadog's APM to track the transactions and our API usage. But because we are using GC AppEngine, we had to use a workaround by installing the agent on a separate VM. Then we found out that we will have to pay for APM and that VM too, not just APM, so we left it. We tried newrelic before, it was good, but datadog seemed like a complete solution (and has better design). Actually I am surprised that there is…
Is NewRelic still investing into their APM product? I heard all original devs left. And I haven't seen any new feature in the last year's. And the last one (Error Analytics) looks clumsy and half-finished.
Mobile support inexistent.
Re: Ask HN: How is your backend instrumented?
#8We use instana.io. It's UI is clunky but gets the job done. It allowed us to troubleshoot multiple severe bugs in production which would have been hard to solve otherwise.