[heliodor]

Plenty of people are happy using the industry-standard open-source tools:

- metrics system (Prometheus, InfluxDB, Graphite, etc.)

- dashboards (Grafana)

- alerts (both the metrics system and Grafana can handle this)

If you're not a big-data company, you can self-host instances of these products reliably.

Disclosure: My startup, https://HostedMetrics.com, provides turnkey hosted versions of these software packages.

I'd be happy to explain the options that are out there and provide any advice you need. Get in touch: contact info is in my profile.

[byteshock]

Your product doesn’t even come close to what datadog offers....

[heliodor]

Datadog has ~9000 customers. I imagine the respective open-source tools have many more customers than that, which says something about the perceived value of the two approaches. Also, Datadog wraps many tools into one whereas the open-source solutions have singular purposes. It's an apples to oranges comparison.