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A comment on Ask HN: Cheaper Datadog Anyone?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Cheaper Datadog Anyone? by kvaranasi_ on Sunday January 11, 2026 @07:19PM (#46582072)
Grafana sucks imo. Their UI is bad, it takes time to setup. It's very difficult to maintain it all together. There should be a free alternative. I'm surprised there is literally no free alternative to Datadog.
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Re:Ask HN: Cheaper Datadog Anyone? by viraptor on Sunday January 11, 2026 @07:42PM (#46582244)
> Grafana sucks imo. Their UI is bad, it takes time to setup. It's very difficult to maintain it all together.

You want free and easy and polished experience.

Grafana works fine. If you want something better than that, you'll have to pay for it or create it yourself.

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