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I've bounced around Splunk, New Relic, Sentry and Datadog over the years. Most recently, I was working with Java and used the open source Vendor-neutral application observability facade Micrometer[1] to test out and confirm which APM we wanted to go with.

[1] https://micrometer.io

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You should also check out SigNoz [1]. It's an open source observability platform with metrics, traces and logs in a single application & based natively on opentelemetry.

One of the reasons many people use SigNoz is to avoid the vendor lock-in which comes with adding proprietary SDKs of closed source products like DataDog and New Relic in their code.

If anyone is starting their observability journey today, I think OpenTelemetry is a very good place to start. You can instrument with Otel SDKs and chose a visualization layer/backend which suits your needs best

(Disclaimer: I am maintainer at SigNoz)

[1]https://github.com/signoz/signoz

is things such as alerts/dashboards/proprietary data is easily exportable with SigNoz? For instance if I’d like to manage them with terraform

Datadog allows you to export all of this but I don't see how that's any useful. You can't really port Datadog dashboard to let's say Grafana easily. The query languages they use do not have 1:1 mapping, the way dashboards are organized and the different visualization tools you get are not same either

they surely doesn't help with the "migration" (application layer) part but they help you manage things with code, which is better than nothing (you can do some heavy-lifting to make it work in another provider afterwards)

that's the reason terraform is not really a solution for what I speak about in the blog post.

But that’s for the data part (otel) and not the applicative part (alerts, dashboards, etc)

Cool! Never heard of it and definitely gonna check it.

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