alt Hacker News> it's time to plan your move to self-hosted.
No, it's always time to plan the move to self hosted, and just occasionally choose someone else to be the "self." Because once a proprietary vendor gets in the stack, evicting them is going to be a project
I'm aware that this doesn't split cleanly down the "saas only feature" or the evil "rug pull" axes, but I'd much rather say "I legitimately tried to allow us to eject from the walled garden and the world changed" versus "whaddya mean non-Datadog?"
> once a proprietary vendor gets in the stack, evicting them is going to be a project
Only if the application is poorly architected. The border between the app and the service should be clearly defined and easy to change. That’s true for core services as well as things like log and metrics collection.