Real Talk: Why Is Datadog So Expensive?

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• linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I always figured it was because they have to pay the 27 reps that call and email me monthly begging to set up a meeting because I looked up their service once several years ago and asked for pricing.

  There’s so much more expensive than the alternatives I really had no choice.

  Oh, you went with Splunk, I see. Well, can I get a meeting with you to explain why we’re so much better and you would be much happier with us.

  No, I’m not going to reinitiate this working completed project and pay three times more for my data munging.

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  • DoomBot5@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    To be fair, am currently using both tools. DD is so much nicer to use than splunk.

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• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I guess it’s pretty cheap to run stealth ads like this on lemmy, since you only need like 20 up votes to get on everyone’s front page.

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  • macgyver@federation.red ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Have already been contacted to do as much on my instance

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    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’d think they’d at least try to make it not look like an ad, at least.

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• DefiantBidet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Bc when entire infra teams rely on your service to operate, and orgs depend on infra, you can charge for that service bc orgs have to pay it, or degrade to cheaper, less robust alternatives - which do exist

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  • linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They’re pretty good, they’re better, but they’re not that much better than Splunk or Elasticsearch (especially the value with Elasticsearch community) I admit elasticsearch gets pricey if you go corporate.

    But Splunk, they’re like 80% of the product at 20% of the price

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  • squirrelwithnut@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    New Relic is better. Datadog sucks by comparison.

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• baggins@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What’s data dog?

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  • asbestos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    nothing much, you!

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    • jdeath@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Gotcha!

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  • aapepinspace@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    A monitoring service for IT systems. It uses an agent that is installed on servers or as a container, that sends metrics and/or logs to Datadog’s platform. You can then set up dashboards, notifications and alerting in their webgui.

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  • grayman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The latest shit to drain your budget since splunk jacked up their price again.

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• ghostface@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Because data is valuable

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• knobbysideup@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Naemon + Graylog work for us.

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• WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean, have you seen the price of corgis lately?

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• T4UTV1S@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I just read the article, it’s actually pretty interesting.

  The TL;DR is that there is so much observable data out there (exponentially more than expected), that Datadog, which isn’t optimized to deal with that, caused their prices to need to hike.

  There are two options listed as alternatives:

  1. Self host but it might not be cheaper
  2. Buy into a company that is from the ground up focusing on dealing with that massive amount of data.

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  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You mean you just read this advertisement?

    Then made a comment that sure looks like a 2nd advertisement for it?

    I hear Splunk is nice. I don’t see them having to place thinly veiled advertisements on social media.

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    • T4UTV1S@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      All due respect (which is none), I don’t give a fuck what you think. Plus, this isn’t even an ad for Splunk, which you’d know if you actually read the article.

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  • DefiantBidet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    its an incredibly powerful tool. I’ve seen its usage bloom from simple box health to actually determining cost per month of services. basically going from a “hows it looking” to a “we need this tool to achieve our margins”

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