Comment by gigatexal
2 days ago
Datadog is expensive this is true. But I have never felt it be slow. Speed is not its killer feature. It’s everything you can do with it once you have logs and or metrics flowing into it.
The dashboards and their creation are intuitive. Creating alerts and things from airflow logs is easy using their DSL. Connecting and sending notifications to things like slack just works tm.
So this is how we justify the datadog costs because of all the engineering time (engineers are still expensive, ai hasn’t replaced us yet) it saves and how quickly we can move from raw logs and metrics to useful insights.
Totally agree - you use an observability tool because it answers your questions quickly, not just return searches quickly.
Beyond raw performance and cost effectiveness, which is quite important at scale, we work a lot on making sure the application layer itself is intuitive to use. You can always play around with what ours looks like at play.hyperdx.io :)