[podoman]

Looks very similar to what we're doing at https://highlight.io. Would love to trade notes at some point.

One thing to consider with your messaging is that when you start speaking to large companies, they won't see you as a datadog alternative. They'll see you as a mix of sentry + fullstory + honeycomb.

Datadog originally found its success with its metrics products, and the larger the buyer of datadog gets, the more metrics-esque use case a company finds. The session replay, logging and other things are simply products that datadog tacks on.

That being said, this is clearly a large market (which is why we're working on it). I particularly like the tracing UI that y'all have and I'd love to chat with your team at some point. Good luck.

[presentation]

It seems there are a lot of Datadog competitor upstarts - also saw Axiom.co recently, though that one doesn't appear to be open source. As a developer not well-versed in observability tooling I don't really have a basis for comparing all these.

[distantsounds]

You're charging for your product, this is MIT licensed. As the meme goes, "we are not the same."

[paulgb]

Highlight is Apache-2, which is for all intents and purposes equivalent to MIT if the work is not subject to patent. (this is my understanding, IANAL)

[podoman]

As other commenters mentioned, we are both comparable (pending your opinion on the MIT license).

We both charge a cloud saas fee as well:

https://www.hyperdx.io/pricing https://www.highlight.io/pricing

[endisneigh]

they both charge money and they're both some variant of open source.