Congrats on the launch! It’s always nice to see alternatives in this space.
I just have a couple of observations:
> Industry trusted Kafka & Druid to handle enterprise scale. No scaling pains. Ever.
From my (limited) experience, Kafka and Druid are not exactly simple pieces of infrastructure for most shops. Often requiring significant effort to scale and maintain.
Also, in the past I’ve had some pains supporting those self-hosting my open source projects, and just wanted to give some friendly suggestions:
- A quickstart guide plus a “Production tips” article would be really helpful for those self-hosting.
- A troubleshooting guide would help reduce common support requests.
- Creating a chat group or a forum can reduce the load as users might help each other out.
It’s mostly about small things that can help save you time and effort, while making it easier for people to adopt the project.
Besides that, I think a lot of the value DataDog provides is in the form of integrations with pretty much every other service out there. We use plenty of these at my day job and it’s particularly useful to connect PagerDuty/Slack to the monitoring system. Maybe these features would help you drive adoption over time, and enable more use cases too.
I just have a couple of observations:
> Industry trusted Kafka & Druid to handle enterprise scale. No scaling pains. Ever.
From my (limited) experience, Kafka and Druid are not exactly simple pieces of infrastructure for most shops. Often requiring significant effort to scale and maintain.
Also, in the past I’ve had some pains supporting those self-hosting my open source projects, and just wanted to give some friendly suggestions:
- A quickstart guide plus a “Production tips” article would be really helpful for those self-hosting.
- A troubleshooting guide would help reduce common support requests.
- Creating a chat group or a forum can reduce the load as users might help each other out.
It’s mostly about small things that can help save you time and effort, while making it easier for people to adopt the project.
Besides that, I think a lot of the value DataDog provides is in the form of integrations with pretty much every other service out there. We use plenty of these at my day job and it’s particularly useful to connect PagerDuty/Slack to the monitoring system. Maybe these features would help you drive adoption over time, and enable more use cases too.