I’ve historically been a pretty big fan of Grafana, I’ve advocated for the cloud solution at more than one company.
But it seems like business development has utterly hijacked the experience.
The flow you want out of the box is Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo with one button that drops you the config for grafana-agent (now alloy which seems good technically but brings a whole new config language with some truly insane discoverability problems) that makes graphs on screens, you build up from there.
But these days everything is some complicated co-sell, up-sell, click farming hedge maze through 90 kinds of cloud vendor rip-off half baked thing.
Graphs, logs, traces out of the box. Put all the works with Snowflake shit behind an icon. A small one.
But it seems like business development has utterly hijacked the experience.
The flow you want out of the box is Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo with one button that drops you the config for grafana-agent (now alloy which seems good technically but brings a whole new config language with some truly insane discoverability problems) that makes graphs on screens, you build up from there.
But these days everything is some complicated co-sell, up-sell, click farming hedge maze through 90 kinds of cloud vendor rip-off half baked thing.
Graphs, logs, traces out of the box. Put all the works with Snowflake shit behind an icon. A small one.