The Canyon Review· 2 min read
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.
#observability#self-hosted#monitoring
Tooling
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Getting traffic into your self-hosted box, ranked
Cloudflare Tunnel, Tailscale, ngrok and plain WireGuard ranked for exposing homelab and small-team services without opening port 443 to the world.
#self-hosted#networking#tunnels
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Email APIs, ranked by deliverability per dollar
SES, Postmark, Resend and Mailgun ranked for transactional email. What you pay per thousand sends and what lands in inboxes.
#email#tooling#pricing
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Secrets managers, compared without the theater
Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Doppler, Infisical and SOPS compared for small teams. What rotation actually costs and who needs it.
#secrets#security#tooling
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Error tracking, ranked by signal per dollar
Sentry, Honeybadger, Rollbar, Bugsnag and GlitchTip ranked for a small team that wants stack traces, not a data platform.
#errors#tooling#pricing
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Your benchmark box is lying to you
Burstable instances hand out CPU credits, your ten-minute benchmark spends them, and the numbers you shipped to the team are fiction. The five-minute fix.
#benchmarks#cloud
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Kubernetes distributions for small teams, ranked by regret
k3s, Talos, k0s, MicroK8s and managed EKS ranked for teams of ten or fewer. Scored on overhead, upgrade pain and time to first useful deploy.
#kubernetes#infrastructure#self-hosted
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How we score things (and why "contact sales" costs you points)
The rubric behind every ranking on this site, published so you can argue with it. Ops burden 40%, real cost 30%, fit 20%, tooling 10%.
#methodology#rankings