After having worked with a nice metrics stack in my worklife. I feel kind of blind in my side projects.
What are all y'all using for metrics and visualization for your side projects?
I'd prefer a SaaS solution, and I'd love to be able to (easily):
- Publish (time-series) metrics from my code
- Create dashboards visualizing these metrics
- (Optional) setup alerting on these metrics
The stacks I've been able to find are either very tied to Prometheus, or tracing. I would like to emit more metrics semantically more close to the application.
Examples:
- Backlog size
- Concurrent items being processed
- Number of items in a specific state
So what are you running in your projects, where it would be overkill to run your own prometheus/grafana/influx/whatevs stack?
https://pqvst.com/2021/06/22/hosted-monitoring-evaluating-in...
I also recently started using Logtail for one of my projects. They also have a good free-tier and it comes with a Grafana instance embedded, so that you can visualize metrics computed from your logs. Seems quite useful but haven't had a chance to really test it fully yet.