Jens Günther

You need to choose the technology (relational DB vs document DB) according to your (detailed) use case. If your use case deals with relational data why would you transform the relational data into a document on write only to transform it back from document to relational on read? The issues you described are typical examples and won't go away. Stick with PostgreSQL (or any managed SQL DB)

Can't say anything to Sysdig. I clearly prefer Datadog as

• they provide plenty of easy to "switch-on" plugins for various technologies (incl. most of AWS)
• easy to code (python) agent plugins / api for own metrics
• brillant dashboarding / alarms with many customization options
• pricing is OK, there are cheaper options for specific use cases but if you want superior dashboarding / alarms I haven't seen a good competitor (despite your own Prometheus / Grafana / Kibana dog food)

IMHO NewRelic is "promising since years" ;) good ideas but bad integration between their products. Their Dashboard query language is really nice but lacks critical functions like multiple data sets or advanced calculations. Needless to say you get all of that with Datadog.

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