Show HN: HyperDX – open-source dev-friendly Datadog alternative

1. hyperdx

   1 23 7,664 8.4 TypeScript

   Resolve production issues, fast. An open source observability platform unifying session replays, logs, metrics, traces and errors powered by Clickhouse and OpenTelemetry.

   

   First paragraph https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx

   "HyperDX helps engineers figure out why production is broken faster by centralizing and correlating logs, metrics, traces, exceptions and session replays in one place. An open source and developer-friendly alternative to Datadog and New Relic."

   Perfect.

   As merc, I never understood the why of Datadog (or equiv). The most common strategy of the teams and projects I rotated thru was "LOG ALL THE THINGS!" No purpose, no esthetics. General agreement about need to improve signal to noise ratio. But little courage or gumption. Such efforts would be easily rebuffed by citing the fable of Chesterfordstorm's Fences and something something velocity.

   Late last century, IT projects, CRMs, ERPs, etc., were plagued by over collection of data. Opaque provenance, dubious (data) quality, unclear ownership, subtractive value propositions. No, no, don't remove that field. We might need it some day.

   These "analytics" projects are the same, right? Every drive-by stakeholder tosses in a few tags, some misc fields, a little extra meta. And before anyone can say "kanban", the stone soup accreted enough mass to because it's own gravity well threatening implosion dragging the entire-org chart into the gapping maw of our universe's newest black hole.

   Am I wrong?

   But logging is useful, right? Or at least has that potential.

   Does any one talk or write about this? (Those SRE themed novels are now buried deep in my reading list.)

   I'd like some cookbooks or blue prints which show some idealized logging strategies, with depictions of common enough troubleshooting scenarios.

   Having something authoritative to cite would make cranks like me look less like Eeyores. "Hey, team mates, you know what'd be really great?! Correlation IDs! So we can see how an action percolates thru our system!"

   Just curious.

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3. cypress-recorder

   2 4 23 3.6 JavaScript

   A Cypress plugin that generates test scripts from your interactions, a replacement Cypress Studio for Cypress v10 🖱 ⌨

   

   It's on the front page of the app, the company behind this (DeploySentinel) is YC backed: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/deploysentinel. The original product seems like some kind of CI tool.

   Interestingly, it seems like HyperDX might've been part of their original product offering that they decided to open source--their main website (https://www.deploysentinel.com) doesn't include any references to "HyperDX for CI" in May of 2023: https://web.archive.org/web/20230321102146/https://www.deplo...

   Seems like they're pivoting to metrics? Even more of a reason to be weary about this.

4. metriport

   3 9 565 10.0 JavaScript

   Metriport is an open-source universal API for healthcare data.

   

   This could be huge for healthcare companies like Metriport [1] - do you sign BAAs with customers for HIPAA compliance?

   [1] https://github.com/metriport/metriport

5. liqe

   4 12 651 6.9 TypeScript

   Lightweight and performant Lucene-like parser, serializer and search engine.

   

   Potentially useful resource – https://github.com/gajus/liqe

6. highlight

   5 35 8,100 9.8 TypeScript

   highlight.io: The open source, full-stack monitoring platform. Error monitoring, session replay, logging, distributed tracing, and more.

   

   [2] https://github.com/highlight/highlight/tree/main

7. opentelemetry-collector-contrib

   6 54 3,446 10.0 Go

   Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector

   

   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 else that speaks otel) - the docs might be a bit tricky to go around depending on your familiarity with OpenTelemetry but this is what you'd be looking for:

   https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-co...

   Happy to dive more into the discord too if you'd like!

8. opentelemetry-collector-co

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   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 else that speaks otel) - the docs might be a bit tricky to go around depending on your familiarity with OpenTelemetry but this is what you'd be looking for:

   https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-co...

   Happy to dive more into the discord too if you'd like!

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10. openobserve

    8 49 14,729 9.9 Rust

    🚀 10x easier, 🚀 140x lower storage cost, 🚀 high performance, 🚀 petabyte scale - Elasticsearch/Splunk/Datadog alternative for 🚀 (logs, metrics, traces, RUM, Error tracking, Session replay).

    

    A good one. A lot is being built on top of clickhouse. I can count at least 3 if not more (hyperdx, signoz and highlight) built on top of clickhouse now.

    We at OpenObserve are solving the same problem but a bit differently. A much simpler solution that anyone can run using a single binary on their own laptop or in a cluster of hundreds of nodes backed by s3. Covers logs, metrics, traces, Session replay, RUM and error tracking are being released by end of the month) - https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve

11. opentelemetry-go

    9 143 5,605 9.8 Go

    OpenTelemetry Go API and SDK

    

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