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by neves
3490 days ago
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And you have include in the price the problems of a paid app: - customization will be very expensive, if not impossible - you must have people for the procurement process (x10 more costly if you are in a gov agency), - weird failures due to not finding the license, - your cheap personal that install software won't be able to do it, - you'll have problems creating testing environments because you don't have licenses - you won't be able to do some things immediately because there aren't enough licenses. And these are just the problems that came to my mind right now. All of them are real problems that I'd found in commercial software. |
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You've got a full API and integrations with a hundred different tools and services out of the box.
Seriously, my coworker was skeptic at first too (so was I). Then we configured the full integrations with AWS/the-agent/statsd/postgre/mysql/cassandra/elasticsearch/riak/nginx/haproxy/redis/memcache/pagerduty/slack and some more.
My co-worker concluded in front of my CEO, "it was 2 orders of magnitude faster [than anything else we've ever tried for monitoring]". And that's not even talking about the additional features and customization we couldn't even dream of.
> - you must have people for the procurement process (x10 more costly if you are in a gov agency),
True. That's the only major problem I can see: People who can't buy the software they need. That's a social problem, not a software problem.
> - weird failures due to not finding the license
It's only one API key to put in the agent config file.
> your cheap personal that install software won't be able to do it
I don't know who you're talking about. Monitoring has our best people working on it. At other places I've seen, it's done by devops consultants raking up £600 a day.
There is no cheap personal involved. (Maybe you're thinking about of cheap interns who add alerts? that's an anti pattern).
- you'll have problems creating testing environments because you don't have licenses
Same license. Put a tag environment=<environment> in the config and done, all metrics all servers and all alerts will be tagged.
- you won't be able to do some things immediately because there aren't enough licenses.
Not applicable. It's not a limited license by seats.
You pay the bill at the end of the month depending on the number of hosts in your package. There is a hourly price for ephemeral hosts and overrun.