Ask HN: Cheaper Datadog Anyone?

2•kvaranasi_•2h ago

Is it just me or do you guys think Datadog pricing is crazy? I mean even to SEE APM you have to pay like $50/mo minimum. What if my app has just 10 requests per month, can I get for free? No, pay us. What if it's just me building? No, still pay us.

But hey we'll give you this metrics page for free which just basically tells you your RAM usage.

And the worst part is, there is no proper alternative for this. And people are ok with that too. Am I crazy for thinking this?

Comments

al_borland•2h ago

What specific features are you looking for where there is no alternative? There are a lot of tools for monitoring.

kvaranasi_•2h ago

APM, logs, metrics and alerting all on a single pane of glass.

viraptor•1h 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_•1h 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.

viraptor•39m 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.

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