Observability Stack – AI First?
1 pointby jblake4 hours ago2 comments
  • chickensong2 hours ago
    Are you asking about other 3rd party solutions, or thinking of DIY? AFAIK, Datadog is still the best/most expensive. Any provider offering AI analysis is just going to add to your cost.

    > I love putting time into this stuff

    > like the reason for using Heroku - I have a lot of other stuff I need to focus on

    You probably need to pick a side here. Building a robust solution with even a fraction of Datadog and Sentry features isn't for the faint of heart. Unless you're into infrastructure, it might be a painful time sink.

    That said, I fully promote DIY, so maybe some kind of OTel, wide log, ClickHouse, Grafana thing with a GPU for an AI sidecar VM.

    • jblakean hour ago
      Yeah that sounds like a lot of fun, but alas no time for that. I think I need to stick with Datadog logs and use Sentry for errors. I was excited to try to get everything into one tool, but that doesn't seem realistic. Datadog is just so much better at logging. And figure out my AI workflows. Sentry's Seer is interesting, but it seems unnecessary - why not send everything straight to Claude.
  • verdverm2 hours ago
    OTEL, that's the industry standard