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I would give a huge marketing bullshit award for the following sentence:

<<We offered Grafana OnCall to users as a SaaS tool first for a few reasons. It’s a commonly shared belief that the more independent your on-call management system is, the better it will be for your entire operation. If something goes wrong, there will be a “designated survivor” outside of your infrastructure to help identify any issues. >>

They tried to ensure that you use their SaaS offering because they care more about your own good than yourself. So humanist...



The point isn't that their infrastructure is more reliable than yours, but that it's decoupled from yours. If you run your monitoring on the same infra as production, it's liable to go down when production does, i.e. just when you need it most. This is a real reason to outsource monitoring to a SaaS, just like there are real reasons to self-host.

I mean, obviously they chose to address the segment of the market they could get more money out of first; I'm not contesting that. But the bit you quoted is low-grade bullshit at best. Hardly award-winning.




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