Ask HN: Cheaper Datadog anyone?
6 pointsby kvaranasi_a month ago8 comments
  • viraptora month ago
    You can use grafana which contains APM, logs, metrics and alerting with a free tier for tiny projects. But honestly if you get 10 requests, you likely don't need APM and if you need APM, you should be getting at least $50/mth from your service.

    Or just host the grafana (or different) stack yourself.

    • kvaranasi_a month ago
      Grafana sucks imo. Their UI is bad, it takes time to setup. It's very difficult to maintain it all together. There should be a free alternative. I'm surprised there is literally no free alternative to Datadog.
      • viraptora month ago
        > Grafana sucks imo. Their UI is bad, it takes time to setup. It's very difficult to maintain it all together.

        You want free and easy and polished experience.

        Grafana works fine. If you want something better than that, you'll have to pay for it or create it yourself.

  • toomuchtodoa month ago
    You are expecting high quality and free, and unwilling to pay $50/month. Is this crazy? It’s certainly unrealistic.
  • thiago_fm25 days ago
    Signoz (invested by YC) is the cheaper alternative. They use OpenTelemetry and seems to work for basic scenarios well.

    Of course, it doesn't have the 293428492 features that Datadog has, but works well enough for the main APM use-case

  • pranabgohaina month ago
    Check out kloudmate.com. Delivers everything Datadog or NewRelic do, at a fraction of the time, complexity, or cost.

    Currently also offers free AI-powered anomaly detection and RCA, along with a full-scale Incident Management module.

  • squompa month ago
    Scout APM is good especially if you're using Rails or Python. Everything is included in the free tier.
  • al_borlanda month ago
    What specific features are you looking for where there is no alternative? There are a lot of tools for monitoring.
    • kvaranasi_a month ago
      APM, logs, metrics and alerting all on a single pane of glass.
  • linesofcodea month ago
    Sentry has a different but overlapping feature-set as DataDog and has a free tier.
  • aristofuna month ago
    Newrelic has pretty generous free tier