Is OpenTelemetry a first-class citizen? A comparison of Datadog and New Relic

Re:Is OpenTelemetry a first-class citizen? A comparison of D... by politelemon on Monday September 18, 2023 @03:34PM (#37560888)

This is not surprising behaviour for datadog. They've used a lot of goodwill and pr, over the last few years, to attract tech teams to embed their APM into codebases. They are now applying the squeeze on everyone with outrageous renewal rates. It's pretty obvious that their aim now is purely profit, and their original love for logs, telemetry and monitoring are second class citizens or a distant memory.

What's surprising me here though is that New Relic are a bit better, when they too employed similar practices once. Has there been an attitude change of some kind?

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Re:Is OpenTelemetry a first-class citizen? A comparison of D... by ljm on Monday September 18, 2023 @03:45PM (#37561030)

I think Datadog have started doing too many things in one product, to the extent that it makes difficult to use and I imagine too difficult to maintain.

I found it a lot easier to work with distributed tracing in New Relic than I did with DD. I was surprised when I came to that conclusion because this time, about a decade ago, I was not in favour of using New Relic at all.

If I found myself in a position to choose the tech I use, I'd probably think twice before accepting Datadog's introduction deal, or even using New Relic for that matter. You could get the job done with Kibana and Grafana for some time.

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Re:Is OpenTelemetry a first-class citizen? A comparison of D... by Rastonbury on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @02:04AM (#37566099)

New Relic is now PE owned so the rent seeking tactics are probably gonna get worse

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