Coroot Blog
coroot.com · Company blog · on HN since 2022
Coroot's blog covers its open source observability tool, with posts on eBPF, OpenTelemetry overhead, and using AI for root cause analysis.
What HN saysHN commenters suggest Coroot as an open source, cheaper alternative to Datadog that uses eBPF for metrics and traces, including for apps without OpenTelemetry.
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- 1Show HN: Coroot: Simplified Observability for Modern Environments5 people · 17 points · first shared 2023 · 2 comments on HN
- 2Using AI for Troubleshooting: OpenAI vs. DeepSeek3 people · 8 points · first shared 2025 · 2 comments on HN
- 3Can AI Do RCA?3 people · 6 points · first shared 2026 · 1 comments on HN
- 4Instrumenting Python GIL with eBPF2 people · 137 points · first shared 2024 · 33 comments on HN
- 5OpenTelemetry for Go: Measuring overhead costs2 people · 135 points · first shared 2025 · 48 comments on HN
- 6Coroot Is Generally Available: Simplified Open Source Observability2 people · 14 points · first shared 2024 · 1 comments on HN
- 7Datadog Is the New Oracle2 people · 14 points · first shared 2024 · 6 comments on HN
- 8Explaining application performance anomalies with AI and the right metrics2 people · 5 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 9It was surprisingly hard to break CloudNativePG replication2 people · 4 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 10The current state of eBPF portability2 people · 4 points · first shared 2022 · 1 comments on HN
- 11Zero-config Go heap profiling2 people · 3 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 12Reproducing Split Brain on CloudNativePG2 people · 2 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 13Pg-agent: a Prometheus Postgres exporter focused on query performance statistics1 people · 16 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 14140x cheaper than Datadog: why storing observability data on-prem makes sense1 people · 6 points · first shared 2024 · 2 comments on HN
- 15How ping measures network round-trip time accurately using SO_TIMESTAMPING1 people · 5 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
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PeterZaitsev · 2025-09-19
You can also consider https://coroot.com - it supports integration both with Collector and without as well as simulated eBPF traces for applications which are not Otel enabled.
digikata · 2025-02-13
We self-host on our own open-source product, but it helps to have a streaming data platform as a product. Not too difficult to write a connector-sink to S3. https://www.fluvio.io/
The caveat is that this is a general purpose data streaming product, so it isn't that opinionated or customized for logging. We still use logging custom frontends for browsing (e.g. grafana), but for core logging/monitoring/billing and critical alerts, it's just Fluvio.
Been looking at the https://coroot.com ebpf collectors to see if we can replace our sidecar sources recently.
david1542 · 2024-07-29
You have plenty of options. some of them are open source https://signoz.io/ https://coroot.com/
Did you search tools that are cheaper than DD?
isburmistrov · 2024-02-28
I think ClickHouse is becoming a default storage for observability nowdays: https://clickhouse.com/use-cases/logging-and-metrics
And there are quite a few solutions on top of it.
A couple of examples that seem to be interesting (however I didn't use them in real life):
https://coroot.com/ https://qryn.metrico.in/#/
nikolay_sivko · 2023-09-18
Coroot leverages eBPF to collect metrics and traces, and its agent parses container logs to extract recurring patterns from them.
Here is the list of collected metrics with detailed descriptions: https://coroot.com/docs/metric-exporters/node-agent/metrics