Hi I am a platform engineer working in the blockchain space

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Hi I am a platform engineer working in the blockchain space I do development in Go and also do various devops SRE stuff My info is at I m interested in all sorts of things including observability Go Terraform Ansible AWS Right now I am investigating alternative metrics platforms to DataDog such as

Yusuf · Answer

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

Craig Rodrigues · Answer

< Yusuf> Datadog can be expensive

Craig Rodrigues · Answer

I m trying out this <https docs victoriametrics com how to send data from datadog agent>

Craig Rodrigues · Answer

It seems to work

Yusuf · Answer

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

Yusuf · Answer

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

Craig Rodrigues · Answer

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