But in this case we are not even talking about own/rented HW vs cloud. It's self-hosted(even on cloud) vs SaaS softwares!
SaaS, especially in this space, can be *extremely* costly and its cost will scale up quickly as you send more traffic (either willingly or by mistake). Yes, Datadog, NewRelic etc will give you many pre-built and well-thought dashboards and some fancy AI-powered auto-detection thing but they will charge many $$$ for it. Consider that now cost management/analysis tools that were historically focused only on cloud, are now adding the same tooling for costly SaaS solutions!
I understand that many HN readers are skewed towards SaaS solutions, usually because they work at a SaaS shop, but depending on the size of the company, the overhead for managing it internally can totally be worth. There is overhead with SaaS as well...
SaaS, especially in this space, can be *extremely* costly and its cost will scale up quickly as you send more traffic (either willingly or by mistake). Yes, Datadog, NewRelic etc will give you many pre-built and well-thought dashboards and some fancy AI-powered auto-detection thing but they will charge many $$$ for it. Consider that now cost management/analysis tools that were historically focused only on cloud, are now adding the same tooling for costly SaaS solutions!
I understand that many HN readers are skewed towards SaaS solutions, usually because they work at a SaaS shop, but depending on the size of the company, the overhead for managing it internally can totally be worth. There is overhead with SaaS as well...