| I appreciate you taking the time to look over our marketing content and giving your frank opinion :-), no ill will perceived at all. It helps us to know where we need to improve our communication around the value we are providing. In that spirit, I'll take a brief stab addressing some of your concerns here: 1) Your time is the most expensive resource. The cost of hosting your own solutions is almost always dwarfed by the cost of time you spend configuring it, maintaining it, and recovering it in the face of failures. We provide the same value here as any SaaS team in any vertical. We care and manage for the infrastructure and are constantly developing and rolling out new features. Of course the time needed to invest depends on one's time and experience, but we intend to save a lot of people a lot of time. 2.) A small EC2 instance costs $61/month and has finite disk bandwidth (and CPU). You might get more than 50 metrics, but it's going to come up a lot short of "nearly unlimited". Most people I know running serious Graphite installations end up needing collocated physical hardware with SSD's. That's going to cost you more like $1K-$2K/month. You will still have a SPOF unless you double that cost. We handle all the scaling and reliability for you. 3) Our pricing is completely linear per the number of metrics, the steps in the slider are just to make it easier to chunk around different numbers. There are no step-wise increases that double your costs. I appreciate your comment here as it had not occurred to me that someone might (reasonably) infer a stepwise increase in pricing. 4) We also include other valuable tools like threshold-based alerting on all your data streams with GUI integration to 3rd party services like Campfire, PagerDuty, Email, Custom Webhooks, with more to come. 5) A lot of 'monitoring' companies are springing up these days because the market is clamoring for it ;-). While some teams would rather handle these things in-house, a lot of other teams would rather focus on building their core business value and out-source infrastructure head-aches. It's the same economics pushing teams to outsource version-control, logging, hosting, etc. |