There are plenty of competitors in the observability space, what's another one? The real issue is once your company is on a platform, it's very costly to move off. The biggest consideration is that it won't be a drop in change for all employees, so the retraining needed is substantial across all teams. Far easier to train employees in cardinality, and the cost implied by it, and to expose the cost for their particular monitoring to their teams.
This may come as a surprise but when giving money to a for-profit company, not only are you paying for corporate bloat, but you're also paying for the CEO's lavish compensation package, free lunches, and very costly health insurance for their employees. You're even paying for employee salaries while they're not doing work while on vacation!
If that's a big problem for you, Graphana may be the better product for you.
I don't consider that corporate bloat. That's just life in the software business if you want good talent.
Corporate bloat is like the mini empires people build, headcount for the sake of headcount, that guy who's been here forever passion project that doesn't make money. Process because it helped someone's resume. Those kinds of inefficiencies. This stuff is different then treating employees nicely.
This may come as a surprise but when giving money to a for-profit company, not only are you paying for corporate bloat, but you're also paying for the CEO's lavish compensation package, free lunches, and very costly health insurance for their employees. You're even paying for employee salaries while they're not doing work while on vacation!
If that's a big problem for you, Graphana may be the better product for you.