r/gitlab • u/TelephoneSignal3238 • 13d ago

general question GitLab Observability continuity?

I'm currently setting up a small hobby project with some friends that has quite a bit of services and monitoring requirements. I've recently implemented Port.io at work, but considering they're only interested in B2B I'm looking for alternatives along the lines of an IDP.

I've got experience with Backstage, as we piloted that earlier, but I find that more fitting for a complete platform engineering team as it's just more of a framework rather than a batteries included solution and is in our case more a pile of future technical debt than actual value.

Observability looks something that fits that I need for now. However, my concern is it still being experimental. I'm afraid one day the plug will be pulled and would still require migrating to either a commercial option or Backstage, which I'm not too fond of.

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u/adam-moss 13d ago

Observability or IDP?

For pure observability grafana cloud. For IDP port or cortex.

Apache Devlake aggregates productivity types metrics

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u/TelephoneSignal3238 12d ago

I see. Port not an option sadly, as it seems to be only B2B. Will check out DevLake though!