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This has been a constant source of friction between build vs buy, esp. when talking about day 1 operations, which is why at OpsVerse (https://opsverse.io/), built out ObserveNow, a fully managed, OSS based observability platform built for enterprise scale. So you don't have to tie yourself into a walled garden, can run pretty much any exporter to bring in data to the system (or take out), and always have access to the tooling that powers your platform without needing to babysit the observability platform itself as you grow.

And since it's purely ingestion based pricing, in general it works out a LOT cheaper as well.

explicit disclaimer: I work at OpsVerse

Plug: If you're looking for something a bit more "few-clicks-and-you-are-up-and-running", check out OpsVerse ObserveNow: https://opsverse.io/observenow-observability/ .. Entirely powered by OSS tools, ingestion-driven pricing, and without the hassle of managing the stack and scaling up.

Best of all, can also be run entirely within your own AWS/GCP/Azure so you only pay OpsVerse for maintaining the stack based on your ingestion (and we also monitor the monitoring system for you ;))

If you're in the market for a DataDog/NewRelic alternative that's based on OSS, but a bit more "few-clicks-and-you-are-up-and-running", check out OpsVerse ObserveNow: https://opsverse.io/observenow-observability/ .. An O11y platform entirely powered by OSS tools, ingestion-driven pricing, and without the hassle of managing the stack and scaling up.

We also recently spoke about how we leverage Clickhouse to build out our APM solution on top on Jaeger traces: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19smsahx7Xg

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Disclaimer: I work at OpsVerse, and we're big fans of UpTrace (and other OSS O11y tools)

We've heard of 2-4% performance hit in terms of performance using pyroscope on Node, but in practice, we've seen ~1% hit in terms of perf (Though we're not running high-performance systems where we're trying to eke out every bit of perf from each pod, so YMMV)

This is great news.

At the company I work at, OpsVerse, we offer a single-click, packaged, pre-configured OSS-driven observability stack [1] that makes heavy use of Grafana (UI + Loki) as well as Pyroscope so it's great to see them take the route of merging projects rather than building a whole new project. Continuous application profiling is such a game-changer and as eBPF becomes more popular, I'm sure tools like pyroscope will become bread and butter for devs.

As an addon, we recently published a blog on how we ended us dogfooding pyroscope to debug a pesky memory leak [2].

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[1]: https://opsverse.io/observenow-observability/

[2]: https://opsverse.io/2023/02/09/pyroscope-to-the-rescue-debug...

https://opsverse.io/observenow-observability/ ...As close to free as possible since the cost is primarily driven by amount of ingestion. Works great for small setups with scope to grow over time!

Disclaimer: I work there

If you're looking for something a bit more "few-clicks-and-you-are-and-running", check out OpsVerse ObserveNow: https://opsverse.io/observenow-observability/ .. Entirely powered by OSS tools, ingestion-driven pricing, and without the hassle of managing the stack and scaling up.