Ask HN: What are your current favorite monitoring and observability solutions?

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With so much agent-assisted development going on, I think monitoring what we deploy is more important than ever. What are your favorite solutions, along with any advice you'd give for implementing/using them? I'd personally prefer to hear about non-SaaS solutions, but I realize that may be hard mode.

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I’d recommend self-hosting because most SaaS providers charge or limit by usage and it can add up fast.

I use both SigNoz and Sentry with OpenTelemetry. Why both? SigNoz has great dashboards and trace and metrics monitoring, but its alerting system isn’t great. Sentry is great at alerting me to new issues and it also has other features like JS session replays that are nice. They just added metrics monitoring which I haven’t checked out yet.

However Sentry is difficult to set up when self-hosting (it has loads of microservices) and it wasn’t originally designed for Otel so there are rough edges around its Otel compatibility.

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