[pranay01]

Thanks for mentioning SigNoz, I am one of the maintainers at SigNoz and would love your feedback on how we can improve it further.

If anyone wants to check our project, here’s our GitHub repo - https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz

[flaviut]

I hope I'm not coming across as negative! Y'all are just have a much younger product, and have not had time to do all the polish and tiny tweaks. I'm also much more familiar with Datadog, and sometimes a learning curve feels like missing features.

- I really like your new Logs & Traces Explorers. I spend a lot of time coming up with queries, and having a focused place for that is great. Especially since there's now a way to quickly turn my query into an alert or a dashboard item.

- You've also recently (6mo?) improved the autocomplete dramatically! This is awesome, and one of my annoyances with Datadog

Other feedback, and honestly this is all very minor. I'd be perfectly happy if nothing ever changed.

- where do I go see the metrics? There's no "Metrics" tab the way there's a "Logs" and "Traces" tab. A "Metrics Explorer" would be great.

- when I add a new plot, having to start out with a blank slate is not great. Datadog defaults to a generic system.cpu query just to fill something in, I find this helpful.

- when I have a plot in a dashboard and I see it is trending in the wrong direction, it would be nice to be able to create an alert directly from the chart rather than have to copy the query over.

- the exceptions tab is very helpful, but I've only recently discovered the LOW_CARDINAL_EXCEPTION_GROUPING flag. It'd be super nice if the variable part of exceptions was automatically detected and they were grouped

- once nice thing in DD is being able to preview a span from a log or logs from a span without opening a new page. Or previewing a span from the global page. Temporary popping this stuff up in a sidebar would be great.

- I'm not sure if there's a way to view only root spans in the trace viewer.

- This might be a problem with the spring boot instrumentation, but I can't see how to figure out what kind of span it is. Is it a `http.request`, `db.query`, etc?

[pranay01]

Thanks for the detailed feedback, this is gold!

> - where do I go see the metrics? There's no "Metrics" tab the way there's a "Logs" and "Traces" tab. A "Metrics Explorer" would be great.

Great, idea. This is some thing which few users have asked for and we will be shipping this in few releases

> - when I have a plot in a dashboard and I see it is trending in the wrong direction, it would be nice to be able to create an alert directly from the chart rather than have to copy the query over.

Fair point, this is something which is also in the pipeline.

> - I'm not sure if there's a way to view only root spans in the trace viewer.

We launched a tab in the new traces explorer for this, does it not serve your use case?

> - when I add a new plot, having to start out with a blank slate is not great. Datadog defaults to a generic system.cpu query just to fill something in, I find this helpful.

We can do something like this, but we don't necessarily know the name of metrics users are sending us, wrt. DataDog which has some default. metrics which their agents generate.

Will also look into other feedbacks you have given

[serverlessmom]

Oooooh this is great feedback. When I started using SigNoz I too was surprised that there was no metrics tab. I wonder what you’d expect to see after clicking it: a list of service names collecting metrics? Or some high-level system wide infra metrics? Let me know!