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Opstrace
Company blog · opstrace.com/blog · on HN as spahlsystemsprogramming
Opstrace is the company blog at opstrace.com, writing about systems and programming. Since 2020, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “Opstrace has been acquired by Gitlab”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Opstrace's blog and site for its open-source observability product, positioned as an alternative to Datadog. Linked posts include the announcement of GitLab's acquisition of Opstrace.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Opstrace is the only open source observability distribution.
Most-linked posts?
- Opstrace has been acquired by Gitlab2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-12-14
- /blog/pulling-cost-curtain-back2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-02-01
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-06
- Running a Next.js Site on Cloudflare Pages2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-14
What Hacker News says?
Heh, yes, the PII scrubbing need is very real. This is definitely a contributing factor to our data ownership commitment--just keep your data in your own account. On the cost topic, last week we published a blog post analyzing the cost of running Opstrace on AWS ( https://opstrace.com/blog/pulling-cost-curtain-back ). (In fact, feel free to do a local repro to confirm our results.) As mentioned elsewhere here on HN,…
Comment linking /blog/pulling-cost-curtain-back
on “Launch HN: Opstrace (YC S19) – open-source Datadog”Submitted Product docs alongside product code as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSorry I don't know what happened here is a new youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooqBn1Q-y2Q It's from this page: https://opstrace.com/docs/quickstart
Comment linking /docs/quickstart
on “Launch HN: Opstrace (YC S19) – open-source Datadog”Submitted Opstrace launches its open source observability platform as a story · 19 points
HN discussionThanks for that feedback - we've got a lot of work to do to make that more clear! We're still early in our journey so we’re not there yet, but we’re moving fast. We're working on a new collaborative UI for interacting with your data in a way that solves a lot of problems we've witnessed with current monitoring UIs (let me know if you want more detail). It's in early development and we haven't released it yet, so whi…
Comment linking /docs/references/roadmap
on “Launch HN: Opstrace (YC S19) – open-source Datadog”Submitted A Datadog-Compatible HTTP API as a story · 16 points
HN discussionYes you can do this today. You cannot send this directly to Opstrace via grpc yet, so you would need to use the Prometheus remote write exporter ( https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/bl... ) with the open telemetry collector. Right now this means only metrics are supported but we will be working on traces as well. Check out the point about tracing on our roadmap https://opstrace.com/docs/refere…
Comment linking /docs/references/roadmap
on “Launch HN: Opstrace (YC S19) – open-source Datadog”Submitted Opstrace has been acquired by Gitlab as a story · 9 points
HN discussionJust to answer the question about what metrics are included, you can write and read any kind of custom metrics and log data from your applications, and have to build useful dashboards yourself. When first deployed, the user tenants (you can create any number of tenants to partition your data) are empty (you start with a clean slate) and ready for you to send any metrics/logs to it. You also have to add your own dash…
Comment linking /docs/guides/user/instrumenting-a-k8s-cluster
on “Launch HN: Opstrace (YC S19) – open-source Datadog”Submitted Running a Next.js Site on Cloudflare Pages as a story · 5 points
HN discussionCurrently you can only deploy to AWS and GCP, but we do intend to extend support to on-prem/dedicated servers in due course (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25992237 ). Until now we’ve been focussing completely on building a scalable, reliable product by standing on the shoulders of these cloud providers where we can take advantage of services like S3, RDS, and elastic compute. We've done a deep dive into t…
Comment linking /blog/pulling-cost-curtain-back
on “Launch HN: Opstrace (YC S19) – open-source Datadog”Submitted A New UI to Improve Observability UX as a story · 5 points
HN discussionGreat questions! (1) As it stands today, you can already use https://vector.dev/docs/reference/sinks/prometheus_remote_wr... to write metrics directly to our Prometheus API. You can also use https://vector.dev/docs/reference/sinks/loki/ to send your logs to our Loki API. Vector is very cool in our opinion and we’d love to see if there is more we can do with it. What are your thoughts? (2) As for cost, our super earl…
Comment linking /blog/pulling-cost-curtain-back
on “Launch HN: Opstrace (YC S19) – open-source Datadog”Submitted Opstrace: Open-Source Secure Observability Deployed in Your Network as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHow does this compare to Opstrace? [0] [0]: https://opstrace.com
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on “Launch HN: ContainIQ (YC S21) – Kubernetes Native Monitoring with eBPF”Submitted What Is Log Aggregation? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHi, Developer Evangelist at GitLab here. Can you link the issue please? :) For context, Prometheus and observability will be handled with Opstrace in the future [0]. I'd like to learn about your use-case and see which troubles you have been running into. Thanks! [0] https://opstrace.com/blog/gitlab
Comment linking /blog/gitlab
on “Gitlab is down”Submitted Scale Testing Cortex Writes with 200M Active Series as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOpstrace has published a blog post: https://opstrace.com/blog/gitlab :)
Comment linking /blog/gitlab
on “GitLab acquires open source observability distribution Opstrace”Submitted Opstrace: The Open Source Observability Distribution as a story · 3 points
HN discussionVery cool, is Next support planned? I haven't tried onboarding yours, but I like your focus on easy setup. Datadog has become more difficult to setup over time. Sentry, PostHog, and SigNoz were fast to setup but I could never get metrics from my app to be received by any of them. Maybe I was rate limited or maybe it was a config problem, but never got them to work. How much traffic can it handle and what's the prici…
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on “Show HN: Monitor your webapp with minimal setup”Submitted Collecting Cloud Vendor Metrics into Prometheus and Grafana as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Collect metrics from AWS and GCP into Prometheus with 2 simple API calls as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Configuring Scalable Alertmanager as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why we chose Cortex and Loki as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Updates on Opstrace Integration into Gitlab as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running a Next.js Site on Cloudflare Pages as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Histogram evolution: visualize how a distribution of values changes over time as a story · 1 points
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