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There seems to be a plethora of these open source dashboard builder systems.

I just want to pay for a hosted version that isn't going to be $1k monthly and require me to build "plugins" to do something that is akin to an API call.

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Microsoft Power BI [0] is only $10 per user per month, while Amazon Quicksight [1] is $9 per user per month.

In the startup space, there is also Mode [2] which has reasonable starting pricing at $25 per user per month.

I've used all three, and my personal favorite is Power BI. They are all great though.

[0] https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/?b=1

[1] https://quicksight.aws/pricing/

[2] https://about.modeanalytics.com/pricing/

I want it to be a $1K/m so they can stay in business and build a sustainable thing I won't have to replace. That's still way cheaper than spending 1/4th of an engineers time per year on an open source dashboard.

In a business/enterprise context, why not use Power BI?

>I just want to pay for a hosted version that isn't going to be $1k monthly and require me to build "plugins" to do something that is akin to an API call.

Sorry for a shameless plug, but you might check something that I built and launched today [1] as I felt exactly the same pain point.

[1] https://monique.io

Very cool. I'm going to take a closer look at this. Congrats on the launch!

InfluxDB + Grafana is a super easy combo to set up (two binaries, no dependencies) and it's very low maintenance once it's up. If you are looking for something that's both affordable and hassle free it's a pretty good alternative, even if self-hosted.

I've considered offering a hosted version of Godot2/Riemann+dash. What would be your main data sources? Would you pay $100/mo?

Librato. Unfortunately, their free offering has stopped, even though that was my main way of converting people into using them

getappenlight.com could be a solution it takes the data from logs (basicly json input) and allows you to plot charts from that data and generate alerts from that.

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