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A comment on Ask HN: Anyone else receiving unsolicited Datadog marketing spam?.

Re:Ask HN: Anyone else receiving unsolicited Datadog marketi... by cameronh90 on Sunday October 30, 2022 @11:00AM (#33395022)
I get a lot of Datadog spam, but was amusingly unable to actually convert a trial account into a paying account. I emailed multiple addresses multiple times, including the support email, the trial onboarding contact and the addresses that were spamming me, and nobody ever replied.

Found an alternative and haven't looked at them since.

EDIT: I had a similar but different experience with Google, where their sales were trying to convince me to switch to them from AWS. On the third call they arranged when we were going to talk about moving some ML workloads over, they just didn't show up and the 3 Googlers they invited to the meeting never contacted us again.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else receiving unsolicited Datadog marketi... by marviel on Sunday October 30, 2022 @11:10AM (#33395103)
What alternative did you find? Their product has always seemed nice in demos, but the aggressive marketing has made it hard for me to look at getting more involved.
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else receiving unsolicited Datadog marketi... by SteveNuts on Sunday October 30, 2022 @11:51AM (#33395491)
Between the two, I prefer Dynatrace. Just a bit simpler user interface
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else receiving unsolicited Datadog marketi... by time0ut on Sunday October 30, 2022 @11:57AM (#33395560)
It really depends on what you are trying to do and what you are willing to spend.

If you are looking for APM, take a look at New Relic. I've used both in production at similar (~1m requests/hour (DD) and ~10m requests/hour (NR)) scales. They are both good and expensive.

If you just want logs, metrics, dashboards, and alerts, there are tons of alternatives that are cheaper and better.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else receiving unsolicited Datadog marketi... by AishwaryaVenkat on Monday November 07, 2022 @08:27AM (#33505517)
In that case, Atatus is affordable in my opinion.
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else receiving unsolicited Datadog marketi... by shyn3 on Sunday October 30, 2022 @07:01PM (#33399944)
If you are a windows shop avoid DD like the plague. If you don't have Pwsh devs avoid new relic for windows.
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