I see you regret Datadog but there's no alternative - did you end up homebrewing metrics, or are you just living with their insane pricing model? In my experience they suck but not enough to leave.

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stackskipton 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Not author but Prometheus is perfectly acceptable alternative if you don't want to go whole Otel route.

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t-writescode 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Prometheus + … what? Datadog is a visualization platform, prometheus is a data gathering infrastructure.

	▲	stackskipton 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Grafana is most common one.

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jpgvm 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

VictoriaMetrics stack. Better, cheaper, faster queries, more k8s native, etc. Easy to run with budget saved from not being on Datadog + attracts smart and observability minded engineers to your team.

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velocity3230 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

LGTM stack?

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lelandbatey 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Currently going through leaving DD at work. Many potential options, many companies trying to break in. The one that calls to me spiritually is: throw it all in Clickhouse (hosted Clickhouse is shockingly cheap) with a hosted HyperDX (logs and metrics UI) instance in front of it. HyperDX has its issues, but it's shocking how cheap it is to toss a couple hundred TB of logs/metrics into Clickhouse per month (compared to the kings ransom DD charges). And you can just query the raw rows, which really comes in handy for understanding some in-the-weeds metrics questions.