[_joel]

> This confirms to me what I suspected when I was trying to determine whether to host my own Grafana stack or use the Grafana Cloud free tier - that I'd end up spending a ton of time fiddling with a constellation of services I didn't actually care about that I could spend on the projects and services I do care about.

This. Although it can be fun to learn, I've done that, got the t-shirt (literally from a conference)

[adql]

From my experience once setup it's pretty much "touch never aside from updates" type of deal. I had one stack based off influxdb for 5+ years, now changed the backend for victoriametrics (mostly because a lot of stuff supports prometheus-likes), and again, not much touching after setup.

But I did similar stuff for work so I already had the skills.