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Craig Rodrigues

08/31/2022, 2:33 PM
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 https://linkedin.com/in/rodrigc 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 VictoriaMetrics
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Yusuf

09/03/2022, 10:00 AM
Craig, may I know your reason for moving away from DataDog ? We have been recently approached by them and we are thinking of switching
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Craig Rodrigues

09/06/2022, 3:01 AM
@Yusuf Datadog can be expensive
It seems to work
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Yusuf

09/06/2022, 11:48 PM
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
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Craig Rodrigues

09/07/2022, 12:57 AM
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