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“Impossibly expensive.”“Generic database metrics.”“Exceeding limits.”“No transparency.” These are the words our customers use to explain why they looked for a Datadog alternative and migrated onto Grafana Labs’ observability solutions. Grafana Cloud provided the scalability that LexisNexis Risk Solutions needed to migrate acquired companies into a unified observability platform. “We’ve had migrations from Datadog.

In November 2023, we released Grafana Beyla 1.0, the first major milestone in our pursuit of zero-code (and zero-effort) eBPF instrumentation. We delivered a way — through a single command-line — to automatically instrument any application supporting HTTP/gRPC protocols, as well as provide basic network packet flow information.

New Relic and Kibana are popular monitoring and observability tools that provide a wide range of features for analysing and visualizing data. In this post, I have compared New Relic and Kibana based on key aspects such as data ingestion, dashboards and visualizations, log management, alerting, pricing and more. Lets take a look at each tool's capabilities, strengths, and weaknesses to help you understand how they differ and which one is best suited to your needs.

With more and more people adopting OpenTelemetry and specifically using the tracing signal, I’ve seen an uptick in people wanting to add the entire request and response body as an attribute. This isn’t ideal, as it wasn’t when people were logging the body as text logs. In this blog post, I’ll explain why this is a bad idea, what are the pitfalls, and more importantly, what you should do instead.

Today, we’re excited to announce a much-awaited feature in SigNoz: Infrastructure Monitoring, built natively on OpenTelemetry. Infrastructure monitoring is a critical aspect of modern observability. Without proper visibility into your infrastructure resources, troubleshooting issues, optimizing costs, and maintaining performance become challenging.

Modern software systems are complex, with multiple services interacting across different environments. Understanding how they behave—tracking performance, identifying bottlenecks, and diagnosing failures—requires more than just collecting data. OpenTelemetry provides a standardized way to gather logs, metrics, and traces, but the real value comes from making that data easy to interpret through visualization.