[buro9]

I work at Grafana, and just attended KubeCon, even when not near the booth but just in Grafana t-shirts I was stopped frequently by individuals saying how much they love Grafana, how it just works, how we should just keep doing what we're doing... there's strong signal there (though this is KubeCon, and K8s isn't the whole industry by a long shot).

But even I would rationally question the survey results, as like all surveys it would only represent those surveyed.

If you scroll to the bottom of the article there is a section "About the respondents and methodology" and to quote, "This year, 306 people participated in the Grafana Labs Observability Survey. We did not contract an outside agency to solicit responses. Instead, we reached out to our community to participate, through our website, social media, and at various Grafana Labs and OSS events".

So let's be upfront here, it's a biased and small sample, but the consistent methodology with prior years means that the directional trends can be identified, even if you cannot extrapolate any specific number to the whole industry.

The indicative signals in there for trends and direction... but it's not quite a 100K audience from all industries and representative of wider engineering.

The number is high due to who was asked to respond.

[jasonjmcghee]

I personally chose and use grafana. Not commenting on whether or not people should use it.

91% of people claimed to do anything gives me pause.

The only place Datadog was mentioned was in invisible text. (Search the page)

Which seems absolutely crazy to me