Good evening! Observability folks, could you help me with some tips? I have a case involving a startup that currently uses Sentry, but they have significant difficulty building dashboards, alerts, and achieving good visibility into traces and logs. We are evaluating some options, including Datadog. In an initial estimate with the vendor, they calculated an approximate cost of USD 2.5k per month. • ~50 GB of data per month for now • A team of 30 engineers; around 4 with an advanced profile to manage alerts, dashboards, etc., and the rest mainly for querying logs, traces, and viewing metrics • 10 applications • Metrics availability can be near real-time They are adopting OpenTelemetry. Which tool would you recommend in this scenario? We also considered using New Relic for logs, traces, and alerts, which I believe would work well, but I’m not sure about dashboards. We need dashboards that present consolidated metrics such as Uptime, Error Rate, RPM, and RPS, and that allow filtering by “n” categories.

Hi. I do work for Dynatrace - so - I am a bit biased - but - I try to give you an unbiased opinion the dashboards you are asking for should be default dashboards in most observabilty tools. That includes DataDog, NewRelic, Dynatrace and also the newer vendors you find that are purely OTel based I think the bigger question you should ask yourself: Why do you want your engineers to learn yet another tool (observability) if you can bring them the answers to those questions, e.g: top failing endpoints, slowest requests, problematic exceptions, slow database queries ... into their existing tools? I see a lot of Platform Engineering Teams push those asnwers back to the Engineers into VSCode (you can do this through the MCP of your observability vendor), Git Issues (auto-created when your observability tool detects an issue), Backstage (as part of your scorecard) So - I wouldnt just switch observability vendor because you are just switching one tool to another. I would rather re-think what information your engineers need that come from observability and how you can get them this data to the tools they already use without them having to become an expert in yet another thing hope this helps

Hey Everton - wanted to suggest checking out Cortex.io for what this company is looking for. This would provide solutions beyond just observability but happy to provide more details if you're interested!

Hey @Everton Varago! Have you checked out https://www.dash0.com/ for that case? I am not affiliated with them but can heartily recommend them.