[adeptima]

There are multiple possible outcomes from the merge with Datadog.

As my ex manager once told - there is no such thing as nice people in P&L statement. Someone has to pay

It's very easy to be anxious and see the path to the dark side here.

However one of possible outcomes - there will be a valid open source competitor to Grafana ecosystems, and this along secure the rest of scene from relicensing. There is a chance it will be all win-win with clear sustainable path and no money and power struggles for founders.

I want to stay on the positive here. Time will show.

[pranay01]

> there will be a valid open source competitor to Grafana ecosystems

You may want to check out SigNoz [1] - takes a all in one app approach compared to different modules for each signal approach which Grafana takes

Disclaimer : I am one of the maintainers

[1] https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz

[paulryanrogers]

Is Grafana and its ecosystem no longer open source? I haven't used it in a while

[adeptima]

No, no. It's all good and amazing. IMHO Grafana is getting even more important in the light of possible disappearing a solid potential competitor. Hope Datadog will be smart enough with Quickwit and opportunity to win the hearts and minds.

Clearly an opportunity for Datadog to make a big statement here, and change its perceptions.