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prometheus vs grafana vs datadog on Hacker News

Across 2007–2026 of Hacker News, prometheus leads prometheus vs grafana vs datadog with 6,564 mentions to grafana’s 6,079, peaking in Jul 2020.

Mention-over-time for prometheus vs grafana vs datadog, overlaid across 2007–2026 of Hacker News. Each line is a live date-histogram over ~45M posts and comments, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

prometheus6,564 mentions, peak Jul 2020grafana6,079 mentions, peak Apr 2021datadog3,895 mentions, peak Apr 2023
2008201120142017202020232026
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How the lead changed hands

The observability stack, layer by layer: Prometheus owns metrics collection ~2020, Grafana takes the dashboards spotlight 2021, then Datadog rises as the all-in-one SaaS into 2023.

The stories behind each line

Top “prometheus” stories
  1. Launch HN: Prometheus (YC W19) – Remove CO2 from Air and Turn It into Gasoline 1,250 points · 2019
  2. Show HN: Drop-in SQS replacement based on SQLite 656 points · 2024
  3. Grafana Loki – Like Prometheus, but for logs 444 points · 2018
  4. Monitoring energy usage with smart plugs, Prometheus and Grafana 354 points · 2024
Top “grafana” stories
  1. Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3 710 points · 2021
  2. Show HN: Hatchet – Open-source distributed task queue 578 points · 2024
  3. Ask HN: What do you self-host? 538 points · 2019
  4. Grafana Loki – Like Prometheus, but for logs 444 points · 2018
Top “datadog” stories
  1. Show HN: SigNoz – open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic 510 points · 2022
  2. Datadog S-1 437 points · 2019
  3. Launch HN: Opstrace (YC S19) – open-source Datadog 316 points · 2021
  4. Datadog dashboard for the Texas power grid 303 points · 2022

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