SigNoz
Dev tools
observability and apm
SHOW HN2022
How HN took it
9 positive, 22 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 12 critical, out of 44 comments about the project. Thread score -0.01.
Performance: 2 for, 2 againstPricing: 1 for, 3 againstExecution: 0 for, 3 againstIdea: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Welcome alternative to expensive New Relic and Datadog
From 2 comments
Goodness I hope this is good because I will make my company gobble it upppp if so.
jakswa on HNI like DataDog but it is prohibitively expensive for monitoring serverless applications, even with negotiated rates. I don’t think their sales team has identified a reasonable…
cebert on HN
Built on OpenTelemetry so backends are easy to swap
From 1 comment
The lock-in we are pointing to is the lock-in because of the proprietary SaaS vendors instrumentation library which is embedded into your code and difficult to get out of. We are…
pranay01 on HN
Objections
Running the observability stack on the same infrastructure as the application is risky
From 1 comment
I am hesitant to run my APM on the same infra as our application. I love the idea of reducing an external dependency/cost, and it looks easy enough to add to our Kubernetes. It…
jaxn on HN
Docker compose setup includes many services that are hard to configure
From 1 comment
Is there any introduction to all the services that are included in the docker-compose file [1]? I wanted to give signoz a try, but the sheer amount of services attached…
ketzu on HN
ClickHouse is not the best for time series metrics
From 1 comment
Click house is a great DB but still not the best at storing timeseries metrics. Do you have plans to incorporate a db optimized for time series storage?
gregwebs on HN
Requests
Anomaly detection and outlier analysis
From 1 comment
Is there any outlier analysis on this? That's a key advantage of DataDog and NewRelic.
InTheArena on HN
Foss-only version without enterprise features
From 1 comment
Don't do that. Open Core is going to hurt you. Especially if things like SSO are paid only. I understand you want to make money and you deserve that but open core will hurt you…
lhoff on HN
Questions
How does it compare to Grafana, Prometheus and Tempo or Loki
From 1 comment
How's this compare to the grafana/prometheus/tempo/loki set of tools?
gclawes on HN
Is it production ready and can it run locally
From 1 comment
I just learned about SigNoz. I spend a lot of time flipping between New Relic and Splunk, and my company spends a ton on both. I’m interested to hear from users and learn if it’s…
reilly3000 on HN
Alternatives named
Datadog
From 1 comment
I like DataDog but it is prohibitively expensive for monitoring serverless applications, even with negotiated rates. I don’t think their sales team has identified a reasonable…
cebert on HN
New Relic
From 1 comment
I used New Relic for the first time at my current job, and while service it provides to our team is invaluable, the UI is slow and very confusing; I can never remember what…
keb_ on HN
Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger
From 2 comments
They say: > if you want to have a seamless experience between metrics and traces, then current experience of stitching together Prometheus & Jaeger is not great. But I wonder if…
codetrotter on HNHow's this compare to the grafana/prometheus/tempo/loki set of tools?
gclawes on HN
Uptrace
From 1 comment
Curious how it compares to https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace And are there any other similar projects.
daigoba66 on HN
Promscale
From 1 comment
They say: > if you want to have a seamless experience between metrics and traces, then current experience of stitching together Prometheus & Jaeger is not great. But I wonder if…
codetrotter on HN