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Comment by slyall | Hacker News Reader

It'll be interesting to see what the pricing numbers actually mean.

Say my app generates 1GB of logs per day. If I create a dashboard showing hits/errors for the last 24 hours and have the dashboard refreshing every 5 minutes it might cost me $1.44 per day (0.005 * 12 * 24).

By comparison list price for Sumo Logic is $90/month for 1GB/day of data (stored for 30 days) with queries being "free" (although there are limits to the number you can do).

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Definitely will be interesting. I'd say this -- for sure, $1.44 per day is better than $90/month, but is it that much better? (Also, $90 is on the high end -- Scalyr charges more like $50/month for 1GB/day disclosure: I'm a co-founder, though no longer there).

For $50-$100/month, you get basically unlimited querying, unlimited dashboards, etc., vs. $43.20 from Amazon for a single dashboard that refreshes every 5 minutes in your example.

Looking at the actual numbers now, there's no way this is targeting the same types of users at this pricing level. It's gotta be aimed more at folks looking at meta-logs for AWS services, the volume of which is going to be much less than actual application logs. Otherwise I can't see this being competitive.

With my logging setup right now (ELK + Fluentd) org-wide we have ~120 dashboards, and the overall setup costs us about $750 per month in resources. This would be a 700% increase for us. A 2x-3x increase would be worth it I think, but not that much.

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