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by fat-apple 1958 days ago
We’re truly sorry that you felt let down! You raise a great point that is worth clarifying though. All logs, metrics and future traces are stored in S3/GCS (and yes metrics are stored in TSDB format). While this does not allow a single query language to ask questions across all these sources in one query (yet), it is absolutely possible to build what Datadog is with a new user interface. To go even further, now that it’s all in one place (S3/GCS) other technologies can be leveraged to create a higher level query language across everything, such as PrestoDB (one would have to build backends for it), or even a new dedicated open source columnar store.
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> other technologies can be leveraged

That’s my point: your software architecture must evolve to deliver on your promises (open-source Datadog) because it’s impossible to satisfy your promises with the architecture as it exists today.

Nonetheless, I appreciate all the responses. Good luck to OpsTrace!

Totally fair. It's a fine line we have to walk.