> I've been unimpressed with datadog apm, which has no affordable configuration
FWIW we sample in datadog APM and it works fine to control costs, I'm not sure what issues you hit.
If you’re looking for open source APM stack which is OpenTelemetry native and you can self host - you can check out SigNoz ( https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz)
Re:OpenTelemetry in 2023
by paulddraper on Monday August 28, 2023 @04:37PM
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> datadog apm, which has no affordable configuration
In my experience, Datadog's ingestion sampling works pretty well.
And there's retention filters you can use to override.
For metrics and logs, sampling isn't so useful, so I don't have a good answer. Datadog has 80% gross margin, so at most 20% of what you pay them is the infra, so you stand to save a lot of money running your own open source stacks if your labor costs would be less than that 80%. With datadog, we have a project every 3 months to reduce usage, so it's not like we aren't constantly babysitting it anyway.