Telemetry
For small teams that need product and operational telemetry without metric-cardinality surprises

Datadog Alternative for Startups

Use structured event tables and SQL dashboards when you want clear product answers without a heavyweight observability rollout.

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Why this works
  • Start free, then pay per user with transparent storage and query usage.
  • Use SQL on structured events instead of pre-planning every metric dimension.
  • Let agents instrument the first useful dashboards while your team keeps control.

Agent prompt

Paste this into your coding agent

Replace YOUR_API_KEY after signup, then ask the agent to run the product flow and verify the first events.

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Datadog Alternative for Startups setup prompt

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Instrument this project with structured logs using /skill.md.

Use this Telemetry API key: YOUR_API_KEY

Please:
1. Find the most important user-facing flows, background jobs, and AI/tooling workflows.
2. Add structured logging with pragmatic snake_case tables and fields.
3. Capture the key signals for each workflow, including status, latency, identifiers, and error context when relevant.
4. Send test events to Telemetry and verify that ingestion works.
5. Create a high-level dashboard with charts and tables that summarize the most important signals in this project.
6. Tell me what you instrumented, which tables you created, and which dashboard views I should review first.

Prefer small, composable events over giant payloads, and optimize for dashboards that humans can scan quickly.

Setup steps

  1. 1Pick one product funnel or operational workflow.
  2. 2Ask an agent to add Telemetry events for that workflow.
  3. 3Build a dashboard from raw events and SQL.
  4. 4Add alerts only around the signals that affect users or revenue.

Events to capture

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Questions unlocked

  • Which product workflows create revenue or retention?
  • Where are reliability issues affecting customer accounts?
  • Which alerts matter enough to wake a human?

Next step

Create the API key your agent will use

The free plan is enough to run the prompt, send test events, and review the first dashboard.

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