Datadog Alternative: When to Move Out?

Vishal — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 07:00:19 +0000

Introduction

As an engineer dabbling with technologies and building solutions for customers, I like Datadog. It’s one of the fastest ways to get observability setup. To add to it, their documentation and help articles are comprehensive and easy to follow making the user experience even better.

As a decision-maker, I like Datadog because I can set up observability at a relatively lower cost without having to operate and maintain my own observability system.

But there are cases where the TCO (total cost of ownership) of Datadog may not be efficient as the organization scales. We noticed this trend when speaking to our customers. Many customers after reaching a certain scale were feeling the pinch of the cost. They were looking for alternatives with hope of reducing the TCO. This led us to investigate & simulate the migration so we can prove the hypothesis and help our customers decide whether they should stay with Datadog or migrate to an alternative solution. Also, we had set up observability systems for customers based on OSS technologies, so we were already aware of the cost of setting up & operating such platforms!

Read the full post on https://www.infracloud.io/blogs/datadog-alternative-when-to-move-out/

Be part of Fission this Hacktoberfest

Vishal — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 17:51:37 +0000

Fission is a fast serverless framework for Kubernetes with a focus on developer productivity and high performance. Fission operates on just the code: Docker and Kubernetes are abstracted away under normal operation from the user, though you can use both to extend Fission if you want to. You can learn more about the Fission project here

Think of like AWS Lambda - but you can run it on any Kubernetes cluster!

This Hacktoberfest is part of Fission and contribute. No contribution is small and here are some things to get started

We are doing an online meetup for those interested in
contributing to Fission & BotKube, check out 
the details here:

https://bit.ly/33A7vps

Don't miss out on Swag while you contribute :) https://www.infracloud.io/blogs/infracloud-joins-hacktoberfest-2020/

1) The Contributing page is a good start & overview of basic information and how to get started: https://github.com/fission/fission/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

2) If you are new to Kubernetes, there are many areas such as CLI experience or documentation that you can contribute to.

You should also Checkout the BotKube project by Prasad, more info here: https://dev.to/prasadg193/contribute-to-botkube-during-hactoberfest-33pk

3) Fission uses Keda-Connectors for integrating with external systems. These connectors are completely standalone and do not need deep knowledge of Fission or Kubernetes and are great for people new to Cloud Native. You can read more about contributing to Keda Connectors here: https://github.com/fission/keda-connectors/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

4) Interact with team through Slack/Twitter & Github, all coordinates here: https://fission.io/community/

Forem: Vishal

Datadog Alternative: When to Move Out?

Be part of Fission this Hacktoberfest