Switching reason · Self-hosting & upgrades · Causes churn
Avoided hosting a five-service Grafana stack for small-team observability
1 source thread · first seen 2026-05
Summary
A founder built a lightweight single-binary alternative because they did not want to host the many services of a Grafana/Prometheus/Mimir/Loki stack on top of Kubernetes. They were also frustrated by paying for disconnected tools.
- Affects
- small development team
- Switched to or considered
- Traceway
Evidence
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“I did NOT want to host a 5 service stack (grafana, otel collector, prometheus, mimir, loki, k8s)”