[bosch_mind]

Why not self host grafana and Loki? It’s not hard and the cost for redundancy and backups running on tons of nodes with fast internet isn’t anything new. Much cheaper

[t-writescode]

My experience is with Kibana and Honeycomb; but in my experience, Grafana, even with Tempo, pales in comparison to the power that the ELK stack or a robust, clean UI’d data aggregator, like Honeycomb is capable of.

[bosch_mind]

I guess it’s a cost benefit analysis. If the UI of X is worth $50k, that’s something some companies can say ok to.

Moreso speaking for the companies that feel hopeless when the UIs of these open source tools might probably be ok