pranay01's comments

On: Ask HN: What do you run instead of Datadog?

[pranay01]

Thanks for the shoutout for SigNoz and the feedback.

We are actively working on shipping innovative features in this space. btw, we also have our launch week going on currently if you want to have a look :)

https://signoz.io/launch-week/

On: Ask HN: What do you run instead of Datadog?

[pranay01]

Check out SigNoz, https://github.com/signoz/signoz

Has metrics, logs and traces in a single app and built natively on OpenTelemetry

Disclaimer : I am a maintainer

[theorlandog → pranay01]

Thank you for this recommendation. I have heard the name before, but it slipped my mind to really dig in. I am definitely interested here though. Will start to play around and reach out if it looks promising. Do you all sign BAAs?

[thiago_fm → pranay01]

Love it, it's epic. I can't wait to see you folks become very successful!

[pranay01 → thiago_fm]

Thanks! great to see that you liked it

Do share any feedback you have on github or on our slack community - https://signoz.io/slack

On: I got OpenTelemetry to work. But why was it so complicated?

[pranay01]

Thanks for the shout out to SigNoz. Do reach out to us in our slack community if you need any help setting things up - https://signoz.io/slack

For others checking out this thread, here's our github repo - https://github.com/signoz/signoz

PS: I am one of the maintainers at SigNoz

On: Datadog acquires Quickwit

[pranay01]

> there will be a valid open source competitor to Grafana ecosystems

You may want to check out SigNoz [1] - takes a all in one app approach compared to different modules for each signal approach which Grafana takes

Disclaimer : I am one of the maintainers

[1] https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz

On: Datadog acquires Quickwit

[pranay01]

If you want to check out OpenTelemetry, Otel-collector does the same job - though it's tightly coupled to opentelemetry

On: I got OpenTelemetry to work. But why was it so complicated?

[pranay01]

As mentioned by philip below, 500 spans is a very small amount. I have seen customers send 1000s of spans in a trace very easily

On: I got OpenTelemetry to work. But why was it so complicated?

[pranay01]

part of the reason for that experience is also because DataDog is not open telemetry native and all their docs and instructions encourage use of their own agents. Using DataDog with Otel is like trying to hold your nose round over your head

You should try Otel native observability platforms like SigNoz, Honeycomb, etc. your life will be much simpler

Disclaimer : i am one of the maintainers at SigNoz

On: I got OpenTelemetry to work. But why was it so complicated?

[pranay01]

I literally gave a lightning talk on this in Kubecon NA last year. Here's the youtube video, might help you get some perspective

tl;dr

while there are certainly many areas to improve for the project, some reasons why it could seem complicated

Extensibility by Design: Flexibility in defining meters and signals ensures diverse use cases are supported.

It's still a relatively new technology (~3 years old), growing pains are expected. OpenTelemetry is still the most advanced open standard handling all three signals together.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEu8_Aeo_-o

On: I got OpenTelemetry to work. But why was it so complicated?

[pranay01]

Agree. Here's the repo for SigNoz if you want to check it out - https://github.com/signoz/signoz

On: Launch HN: Keep (YC W23) – AIOps and alert management

[pranay01]

Congrats on the launch!

TIL that BigPanda and Moogsoft solve the same problems which you are trying to solve :)

Would have loved to see SigNoz also in the list of supported integrations

[talboren → pranay01]

providers are usually driven by the community! happy to collaborate on that provider if you’d like.