Re:Launch HN: SigNoz (YC W21) – Open-source alternative to D...
by ankitnayan on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @03:33PM
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Grafana, for long, has been used to monitor time-series data and recently has been moving towards observability (including traces and logs). We are different in quite a few fronts.
1. There are specific observabilty specific UI widgets like serviceMap, SLOs and error budgets, I don't know whether Grafana provides it now. Also, last I used Grafana, linking and moving from one dashboard to another is still a pain. You can get a better idea of how different observability UI can get from Grafana by looking into LightStep demo.
2. We can run aggregated on filtered traces. Eg, I can get 99th percentile response time of a tag say payment_channel. am afraid this can be extracted from traces by Grafana.
3. SigNoz is easily extendible by adding your stream processing application to slice n dice data in your own way
1. There are specific observabilty specific UI widgets like serviceMap, SLOs and error budgets, I don't know whether Grafana provides it now. Also, last I used Grafana, linking and moving from one dashboard to another is still a pain. You can get a better idea of how different observability UI can get from Grafana by looking into LightStep demo.
2. We can run aggregated on filtered traces. Eg, I can get 99th percentile response time of a tag say payment_channel. am afraid this can be extracted from traces by Grafana.
3. SigNoz is easily extendible by adding your stream processing application to slice n dice data in your own way