A managed service is more costly than a self-managed one. The cost isn't about monitoring; it also involves human resources and labor cost savings. For instance, if you previously used self-managed Elasticsearch, you need to handle all upgrade strategies and cluster management yourself. This incurred a significant cost, which makes tools like OpenSearch valuable. OpenSearch is designed to save your developers or users to manage the infrastructure.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Datadog, Zabbix and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability. Updated: May 2024.
A managed service is more costly than a self-managed one. The cost isn't about monitoring; it also involves human resources and labor cost savings. For instance, if you previously used self-managed Elasticsearch, you need to handle all upgrade strategies and cluster management yourself. This incurred a significant cost, which makes tools like OpenSearch valuable. OpenSearch is designed to save your developers or users to manage the infrastructure.