I've seen a lot of comments about how bad DataDog is because of cost but surprisingly I haven't seen open-source alternatives like OpenTelemetry/Prometheus/Grafana/Tempa mentioned.
Is it because most people are willing to pay someone else to manage monitoring infrastructure or other reasons?
the way I think of datadog is that datadog it provides a second to none DX combined with a wide suite of product offerings that is good enough for most companies most of the time. does it have opaque pricing that can be 100x more expensive than alternatives? absolutely! will people continue to use it? yes!
something to keep in mind is that most companies are not like the folks in this thread. they might not have the expertise, time or bandwidth to build invest in observability.
the vast majority of companies just want something that basically works and doesn’t take a lot of training to use.
I think of Datadog as the Apple of observability vendors - it doesn’t offer everything and there are real limitations (and price tags) for more precise use cases but in the general case, it just works (especially if you stay within its ecosystem)
Is it because most people are willing to pay someone else to manage monitoring infrastructure or other reasons?