> I'm dubious that you really need these things enough to pay ~2x to have them.
Does your business have an accountant? Why not just get a high-school grad - after all, totting up numbers is simple maths, and it's much cheaper.
> You have competitors like NewRelic and DataDog, they're pretty trivial to set up.
Ha! Complain about the price and then say "just install NewRelic". It's pretty clear from that comment alone that you've just got an axe to grind with AWS.
> Why not just get a high-school grad - after all, totting up numbers is simple maths, and it's much cheaper.
I'd liken AWS more to KPMG, Deloitte, E&Y or PwC than an accountant. You don't need your accountant to have a risk management consultancy any more than you need your server host to be able to provide instant and infinite scalability.
> Ha! Complain about the price and then say "just install NewRelic".
DD and NR are still cheaper than the 2x cost of using AWS and I also suggested self hosting. InfluxDB, Telegraf and Grafana are pretty trivial to set up.
> you've just got an axe to grind with AWS.
I only object to using AWS for everything or blindly. People don't seem to see the costs of using AWS or any of the other big cloud providers.
> InfluxDB, Telegraf and Grafana are pretty trivial to set up.
No, they're actually not. They're trivial to get to a state of "the process is running on my machine", but to actually get a set of suitable metrics presented the way you want them, that takes a while, especially if you're not already a skilled sysadmin. It's certainly more than "a couple of hours of sysadmin time every couple of years" that others in this thread suggest.
Time and time again I've seen applications painted as "trivial to set up", then when you go to actually try it, the devil is in the details. Getting it running is only the start of it. Unless you have the simplest of use-cases, the stuff that comes out of the box is rarely enough.
Ultimately, this is all penny-pinching nonsense at these numbers anyway. If your shop is bigger than a handful of people, $400/mo is chickenfeed compared to other business expenses.
Your own use-case may indeed not be suitable for AWS - they do gouge you on traffic, and it looks like you're pushing a quarter-petabyte over the wire monthly, so that's certainly not a happy marriage.
> No, they're actually not. They're trivial to get to a state of "the process is running on my machine", but to actually get a set of suitable metrics presented the way you want them, that takes a while, especially if you're not already a skilled sysadmin. It's certainly more than "a couple of hours of sysadmin time every couple of years" that others in this thread suggest.
I said what I said not as speculation but out of experience. It's really not hard. Telegraf includes many of the metrics you'd want built in and others can be sent with minimal effort from most applications with StatsD.
Does your business have an accountant? Why not just get a high-school grad - after all, totting up numbers is simple maths, and it's much cheaper.
> You have competitors like NewRelic and DataDog, they're pretty trivial to set up.
Ha! Complain about the price and then say "just install NewRelic". It's pretty clear from that comment alone that you've just got an axe to grind with AWS.