VettedGaps has researched 21 problems people raise in r/sre, each backed by real posts.
By category
Performance & Reliability: 13
Automation & Workflows: 3
Notifications & Alerts: 2
Analytics & Reporting: 1
Top problems
Datadog users struggle to justify cost as self-hosted alternatives add hidden operational(Performance & Reliability · 4 pieces of evidence)
SREs need AI agents that explain their reasoning for incident investigation(Automation & Workflows · 4 pieces of evidence)
SREs can't triage CVE tickets because scanners flag unreachable dependencies(Performance & Reliability · 5 pieces of evidence)
What people say
“We're at about 300GB/day of logs on Datadog and at this point the bill is what's driving the conversation, not anything technical. The obvious move seems to be putting logs on a self-hosted stack. We're looking at Loki, ClickHouse, and more general ones like OpenObserve, which...”
From r/sre, on “Datadog users struggle to justify cost as self-hosted alternatives add hidden operational”
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