Platform engineering is the discipline of designing and building toolchains and workflows that enable self-service capabilities for software engineering organizations in the cloud-native era.

Platform Engineering

Craig, may I know your reason for moving away from DataDog ? We have been recently approached by them and we are thinking of switching

I’m trying out this: <https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#how-to-send-data-from-datadog-agent>

Indeed. We are about to have a demo with them but when we digged their pricing it was way too over our allowances. Still, let's see what value can they bring

We use Prometheus and friends to observe our infrastructure. We haven't got the best out of these tools yet and it requires management and, above all, knowledge

VictoriaMetrics is a drop-in replacement for Prometheus.  VictoriaMetrics claims that they are more performant, so I'm giving it a try, and it seems to work quite well:

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9qjb_yoBro>
<https://altinity.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/How-ClickHouse-Inspired-Us-to-Build-a-High-Performance-Time-Series-Database.pdf>