The Canyon Review

We already did the comparison shopping. You get the verdict, the prices, and the one we'd skip.

Latest · Tooling

Self-hosted observability stacks, ranked by total weekend cost

Grafana LGTM, VictoriaMetrics, SigNoz, Zabbix and Netdata ranked for teams leaving the Datadog bill behind. Weekends counted honestly.

July 31, 2026

Getting traffic into your self-hosted box, ranked

2 min read

July 18, 2026

pgvector vs. the dedicated vector databases, priced

1 min read

July 10, 2026

Email APIs, ranked by deliverability per dollar

2 min read

July 4, 2026

Terraform alternatives, ranked two licenses later

2 min read

July 1, 2026

Auth providers, priced at the MAU cliff

2 min read

June 25, 2026

Object storage price math, with the egress included this time

2 min read

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