signoz VS opentelemetry-java-instrumentation

Give https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz a look

Sure, we will include dynatrace and elastic in our next update. The line items are mostly based on how the product does the billing u/RabidWolfAlpha. Datadog has an SKU-based billing structure. If you visit their pricing page, they list down a lot of products, and they bill each of them separately. For example, APM and infrastructure monitoring are two separate paid products. SigNoz is based on usage-based pricing; only pay for how much data you ingest. Billing is based on how much logs, metrics and traces you ingest. There is no separate billing for APM and infrastructure monitoring. SigNoz has most features that Datadog provides, except things like network monitoring, Cloud SIEM, etc. Are you looking for any specific feature? p.s SigNoz is also open source: our github repo.

We are building OpenSource Observability at SigNoz. Have a look at https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz

SigNoz? https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz

Folks on this thread might want to check out SigNoz (https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz). It's an open source alternative to Datadog.

I am one of the maintainers at SigNoz. We have come across many more horror stories around Datadog billing while interacting with our users.

We recently did a deep dive on pricing, and found some interesting insights on how it is priced compared to other products.

Datadog's billing has two key issues:

I am not sure when you tried OpenTelemetry, but it is decently mature now, esp. for tracing. I am a maintainer at SigNoz (https://github.com/signoz/signoz) and we have good support for tracing using Otel for most of the common frameworks.

I agree it was a bit rapidly evolving in early days, but now its much more mature.

You can check out our docs for distributed tracing here - https://signoz.io/docs/instrumentation/

We are building SigNoz (https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz) - an open source alternative to DataDog. We are natively based on opentelemetry and see lots of our users very interested in that.

As mentioned in some other places in the thread, DataDog pricing is very unpredictable and high - and I think more open standards based solutions are the way forward which provides users more predictability and flexibility

You should check out SigNoz (https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz) - It's an open source alternative to DataDog with metrics, traces and logs in a single application. You can just self host it yourself or try the hosted version.

PS: I am one of the maintainers at SigNoz

There's also Signoz (https://signoz.io) a YC-backed company but open source with (recently) paid hosted.

We are actually able to handle the long tail of tracing by leveraging the amazing open source community. For languages like Java we use the automatic instrumentation created by the OpenTelemetry community which is really great and support ton of libraries, you can see a list of supported libraries here: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrum...

As in Python, it creates spans for every method call and HTTP entry point. It also instruments JDBC calls, but we have a Reactive stack and thus use R2DBC. For the record, a GitHub issue is open for adding support.

Download the latest Java agent ‘JAR’ from the official repo on GitHub and copy the opentelemetry-javaagent-all.jar file to your project.

Java OpenTelemetry MongoDB library for Java applications

Download the latest version of the Java JAR agent, and copy jar agent file in your application code. We have placed the agent under the folder named agents.

OpenTelemetry and Java Flight Recorder (JFR) cover most bases. Use the OpenTelemetry Java agent if you want auto-instrumentation or just the APIs if you want to do your own instrumentation.

OpenTelemetry provides three repositories to instrument applications. The opentelemetry-java-instrumentation repo contains the code for auto-instrumentation of Java applications.

opentelemetry-java-instrumentation This is the sibling project of opentelemetry-java and provides the all-in-one, easy-to-install auto instrumentation Java agent. The OpenTelemetry Java agent enables you to capture telemetry data from many popular libraries and frameworks. You need to attach it to any Java 8+ application. We will learn more about the Java agent below.

For instrumenting Java applications, OpenTelemetry has a very handy Java JAR agent that can be attached to any Java 8+ application. The JAR agent can detect a number of popular libraries and frameworks and instrument it right out of the box. You don't need to add any code for that.