Coinbase (?) had a $65M Datadog bill per Datadog's Q1 earnings call

Re:Coinbase (?) had a $65M Datadog bill per Datadog's Q1 ear... by igetspam on Saturday May 06, 2023 @05:54AM (#35839805)

I do a lot of negotiating on products like this. The most I've ever gotten was a shirt and some stickers for my kid. Definitely not enough to move the needle on $250k/year deals. I feel like I'm missing out!

I love how good DataDog is. It's a great product. Too expensive though. I love most of the people I've worked with at Grafana Cloud but it's a painful product. The price makes up for it though, so we use Grafana Cloud.

We may end up with something like signoz, when we have the cycles but the ROI is bad when I already have twice as much work as people and that barely more than KTLO.

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Re:Coinbase (?) had a $65M Datadog bill per Datadog's Q1 ear... by davkal on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @05:00AM (#35871716)

> I love most of the people I've worked with at Grafana Cloud but it's a painful product. The price makes up for it though, so we use Grafana Cloud.

Hi, I run the Grafana team at Grafana Labs. If you could fix one thing, what would it be?

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Re:Coinbase (?) had a $65M Datadog bill per Datadog's Q1 ear... by igetspam on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @07:09PM (#35881550)

General usability. DataDog is intuitive and easy. Grafana is rough and requires a solid understanding of statistics and data analytics. The bar for using it is pretty high, so most engineers I know push it to someone else, which means there's one team doing the toil and working on creating simpler abstractions to hide the complexity.

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