alt Hacker NewsIt really never grokked with me why there isn't just "open source Datadog" that can be installed and used. End to end, stateful, that we can just self host.
Our team tried to set up open telemetry to replace Datadog and got totally crushed in complexity. The model of having Open Telemetry just be for standardizing & exporting to other backends, needing glue for each part of the setup was nuts.
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I run OSS Grafana with Loki, Prometheus, and Tempo. I use an Alloy sidecar taking in OTEL and scraping logs.feom my Go services and selfhost the stack. Once you need to scale it gets a bit more complicated but it's all still OSS.
The biggest challenge I have is that each data source needs it's own query language, which DD and the like don't. That's why at my day job they went with DD despite the costs. Still OTEL but the querying is the same. We are also looking at Dash0 but for all of my personal and consulting jobs, OSS LGTM/P works good for me.
There is, it's called VictoriaMetrics/Logs/Traces.
Signoz?
But yes it seemed like OTel was more interested in being a spec than a tool.
isn't this exactly what the LGTM stack is?
Signoz
clickstack https://clickhouse.com/clickstack
is the closest i've seen to the datadog experience