@dhh: Our renewal bill for Datadog c...

Our renewal bill for Datadog came to ~$83,000/year before we canceled. There's no way, no how the time we've spent replacing the key usage amounts to 1/3 or 1/2 of a full-time employee. Not even close. Enterprise SaaS pricing is bonkers.

This is the kind of line item that usually wouldn't even make funded startups blink. But it gives me the hives. When you're playing with your own money and for keeps, a lot of tech's "standard practices" come across as grotesquely wasteful and squanderous.

We ended up with a combination of Prometheus, Grafana, and Kibana for metrics, logging, and investigations. Would love to see some standardization and glue be applied, such that all this becomes as easy as signing up for DD. But even by hand, it our levels, it was well worth it.