HyperDX
Infrastructure
observability
SHOW HN2023
722points
163comments
#18of 3,109 in 2023
Top 1%of 2023 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
19 positive, 33 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 10 critical, out of 64 comments about the project. Thread score +0.16.
Idea: 6 for, 5 againstPricing: 3 for, 2 againstPerformance: 1 for, 1 againstDocs: 1 for, 1 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean landing page design and developer experience
From 1 comment
This looks really promising, will definitely look into using this for a project i'm working on! Btw I've used both datadog and newrelic in large-scale production apps and for the…
jamesmcintyre on HN
Objections
Per-host pricing and vendor lock-in concerns
From 1 comment
Agreed! It's per-host pricing can obliterate budgets if you use a fleet of small instances (which is crazy to me their pricing dictates your infra...) Would love to have you…
mikeshi42 on HN
Open-core model and SSO kept in paid tier
From 1 comment
We're more than happy to have users self-host and deploy in a way that works with their SSO provider! Whether that's via SSO on Nginx or forking and adding SSO to Passport in…
mikeshi42 on HN
Requests
Syslog support
From 1 comment
The absolute bare minimum I'd say is 2GB RAM, though in the README we do say 4GB and 2 cores for testing, obviously more if you're at scale and need performance. For Syslog -…
mikeshi42 on HN
Journald log ingestion
From 1 comment
Ah yeah the easiest way is probably using the OpenTelemetry collector to set up a process to pull your logs out of jounrnald and send them via otel logs to HyperDX (or anywhere…
mikeshi42 on HN
Questions
Scaling ClickHouse at high log ingest rates
From 1 comment
Thank you, really appreciate the feedback and encouragement! > It seems like clickhouse is obviously a big piece of the tech here, which is an obvious choice, but from my…
mikeshi42 on HN
Why MIT rather than AGPL
From 1 comment
Thank you, really appreciate the feedback and encouragement! > It seems like clickhouse is obviously a big piece of the tech here, which is an obvious choice, but from my…
mikeshi42 on HN
Alternatives named
Datadog
From 1 comment
Thank you, really appreciate the feedback and encouragement! > It seems like clickhouse is obviously a big piece of the tech here, which is an obvious choice, but from my…
mikeshi42 on HN
Sentry
From 1 comment
Very familiar with Sentry! I think we have a bit of overlap in that we both do monitoring and help devs debug though here's where I think we differ: HyperDX: - Can collect all…
mikeshi42 on HN
Elasticsearch
From 1 comment
Thank you, really appreciate the feedback and encouragement! > It seems like clickhouse is obviously a big piece of the tech here, which is an obvious choice, but from my…
mikeshi42 on HN