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		t-writescode on Aug 26, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Our renewal bill for Datadog came to –$83,000/year... My experience is with Kibana and Honeycomb; but in my experience, Grafana, even with Tempo, pales in comparison to the power that the ELK stack or a robust, clean UI’d data aggregator, like Honeycomb is capable of.

bosch_mind on Aug 26, 2024 [–]

I guess it’s a cost benefit analysis. If the UI of X is worth $50k, that’s something some companies can say ok to.

Moreso speaking for the companies that feel hopeless when the UIs of these open source tools might probably be ok

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