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Re:MetricsDB: TimeSeries Database for storing metrics at Twi... by darkwater on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @11:31AM (#23552618)
> Well, everybody with experience outsources monitoring now since it's a non-core cost center, unless there's a compelling scale or secrecy issue.

In this scenario I find it odd that there are so many opensource projects with traction and success (one name above all, Prometheus) if they are addressed only to specialized companies. What you say applies to small companies or very big ones with lot of money to spend. Mid-sized companies in my experience prefer to spend money on in-house solution because at their volumes outsourcing is really costly. But that's just my small experience.

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Re:MetricsDB: TimeSeries Database for storing metrics at Twi... by redis_mlc on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @11:15PM (#23559448)
Get back to me in a year when your ops staff gets tired of 24x7 support for a cost center.
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Re:MetricsDB: TimeSeries Database for storing metrics at Twi... by darkwater on Monday June 22, 2020 @12:22PM (#23601995)
Monitoring how your platform behaves/perform is a cost-center? I think it's a quite important feature in every tech company and depending on the size of the company it may be better to outsource it or do it internally.
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