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* Looker (most usable BI tool I’ve come across so far)

* DataDog (distributed tracing is a dream)

* IntelliJ (idea, goland, pycharm, clion, datagrip)

* MindNode (macOS-only mind-mapping software)

Recently started using smart sheets, but on the fence about this one so far.

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What other BI platforms have you used? We're looking to build out our BI infrastructure as a service for our customers and are currently testing google data studio but have looked into Sisense + Looker.

if you are doing customer reporting, sooner or later you will need these two priority things ( more so than charting features) 1. Delegated authentication ( think Okta) 2. Fine-grained row-level security to slice the same data in the report based on authorization.

We have had good experience with Tableau but had to do some custom Rest API programming for #1 .. Feel free to PM

QuickSight, Tableau, Chartio. Disappointed with all of these

You should check out Holistics.io if you're disappointed with all 3 options. A balance between drag-and-drop for business users and SQL for data analysts, this is done through a SQL-based data modeling layer.

Disclaimer: I work at Holistics.

What do you use distributed tracing for? We have DataDog but only use metrics (no APM) and I don't really see what justifies the high price compared to Prometheus/Grafana. I have investigated introducing distributed tracing with Istio and Jaeger but right now it doesn't seem that useful to me.

We have hundreds of services, mostly written in Scala, instrumented with Kamon for tracing. In a complex distributed architecture with many teams and changes happening multiple times per hour, distributed tracing is vital for troubleshooting and understanding what is happening.

MindNode is available on iOS and iPadOS devices too. Great app!

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