Says the blog of a company selling "An open-source observability platform built for simplicity."

The tension of expertise and self-interest is a tough one (I live this every day). If you know enough to have a good opinion, you are probably either:

   * a hobbyist fitting learning into the edges of the day
   * an experienced person who is too busy to write up your opinions
   * someone with a vested interest, selling something

So hard as an outsider to determine who to trust and how far to trust them.

Thank you for your comment. You might be right, but this post is written by someone who has been working in open source for 20 years, not just a product owner who dislikes a competitor. I believe his opinion is based on his experience and can be taken into consideration.

The OP definitely has credentials in open source but is also a co-founder of coroot. Like I said, he's got both expertise and a vested interest.

That said, the post seems pretty innocuous on a close read: Datadog is expensive, observability is important, there are some OSS competitors trying to offer a complete suite, this is all similar to what happened in databases in the early 2000s.

Hard to argue with any of that.

Expensive bills and open source alternatives are not enough to make anyone "the new Oracle", particularly not your competitors.

Correct! Anyone can become the new Oracle based on their market vendor lock strategy.

Datadog is one of the companies that somehow get a hold of your company email address and spam everyone there with email subjects like “Re: meeting next week”. Instant ick.