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by ashug 3y ago
Thank you! Spot.io falls broadly into the same category as Vantage/Ternary/others, so the same answer as here applies: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39183504 . In a sentence, these tools display the same cos
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by ashug 3y ago
Awesome!! We'll send you an email shortly :)
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by ashug 3y ago
I'm not familiar with Kinesis's sink APIs, but yes I'd imagine you'll have to write your own connector from scratch. To answer your question, though, no: in the Kafka connector, the frequency of inserts into ClickHouse i
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by ashug 3y ago
Haha, we've heard many a story like this one over the months! An advisor suggested we offer a sort of "pricing heuristics" deliverable to sales as part of our product (e.g. "if a customer needs feature foo, add $bar to t
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by ashug 3y ago
Thanks! It's on the roadmap :)
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by ashug 3y ago
TL;DR - We treat the per-customer usage data as the ground truth, and the per-customer cost can vary based on parameters chosen by the Dashdive user and their preferred mental model. At a minimum, every customer is assigned the cost resulti
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by ashug 3y ago
You're right; it's a bit inaccessible at the moment. We're planning to offer a more affordable tier in the next 1-2 months. A bit more context here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39178753#39186948 .
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by ashug 3y ago
Thanks! Yes, we're working on making the product more accessible. Right now, for every new customer, we have to manually provision and manage some additional infrastructure. We're worried we could quickly get overextended in both
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by ashug 3y ago
Great point. We could definitely add usage-based pricing (UBP) adjacent features - for example, a Stripe integration and user-defined rules to auto-calculate invoices based on incurred cloud usage per-customer. Would that be useful? However
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by ashug 3y ago
You can use the usage and cost data Dashdive collects to identify cost spikes or ongoing inefficiencies (e.g. this particular feature is using more vCPU than should be necessary). But we won't do any automatic cost cutting for you (som
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by ashug 3y ago
We actually use Kafka rather than Kinesis, although they're very similar. For writing to ClickHouse from Kafka, we use the ClickHouse Kafka sink connector: https://github.com/ClickHouse/clickhouse-kafka-connect .
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by ashug 3y ago
Ternary is similar to Vantage in its offering so this answer ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39178753#39181486 ) also applies here. There are quite a few cloud cost tools out there which use AWS's cost and usage r
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by ashug 3y ago
Yotascale is in many ways similar to Vantage, so a similar answer to this one ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39178753#39181486 ) applies. When we were originally researching to see if anyone had done something like Da
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by ashug 3y ago
Makes a lot of sense - in my opinion AWS doesn't do the best job with this. We had a similar problem with EKS where even as the root user I couldn't view cluster details ( https://medium.com/@elliotgraebert/com
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by ashug 3y ago
The key differentiation from Vantage and other similar products is the level of granularity. Vantage is in the category mentioned above: it combines AWS, GCP, Datadog, Snowflake, etc. cost data in a single dashboard and supports tagging. Fo
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by ashug 3y ago
This is an interesting point, and we could definitely consider something like this. Where exactly do you run into problems? For example, let's say you've figured out that a particular EC2 instance or database is too costly. What i
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by ashug 3y ago
Usage is what we track directly, and then we apply the cloud provider's billing rules for the given service (e.g. S3) to calculate the resulting costs. So utilization rates for something like a Kubernetes cluster are easy to derive wit
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Launch HN: Dashdive (YC W23) – Track your cloud costs precisely
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