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We've seen a fair few "Datadog alternatives" on HN over the years. Does that mean that Datadog is the reference or gold-standard system to beat, or to compare your product to?

Kind of like how people mostly promote "Elasticsearch alternatives" and not "Solr alternatives".

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It's a pretty scattered landscape with everyone wanting something slightly different, but everyone has likely heard of Datadog at one point or another (whether they wanted to or not... but that's another story).

It becomes convenient short-hand for what they do (collect logs, metrics, traces, RUM, etc. for engineers to debug).

Though with more characters to write, I'd like to think we have a different take on both how our pricing model works and how easy it should be for an engineer to get started with us :)

It's a relatively ok priced system which has almost everything: server and client performance, alerts, dashboards, logs, profiling, tracing, etc. It's not amazing and has some issues, but it's one place to get lots of things you want and it's good enough for many. I wouldn't say gold-standard, but rather a benchmark for "you have to be this tall to play the observability product game".

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