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Hacker Trendsprometheus vs grafana vs datadog

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 20072026 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

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.

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