Are Soaring Datadog Costs Draining Your Budget?

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Datadog

Unexpected overage bills and sneaky high cost

Complex pricing and frequent overage bills lead to higher cost.

Aggressive data sampling and shorter data retention lead to blind spots.

Additional costs of premier support lead to higher cost.

Instrumentation and Collection

Data Retention

Data Tiers

Unified Observability

Log Derived Metrics

Overage Bill

Premium Support & Customer Success

OpenTelemetry-Native

Traces: 60 days
Logs: 60 days
Metrics: 13 months

All data is always kept hot

All telemetry data in one data lake with one query language and one consistent UI for faster correlations and troubleshooting

No additional charge. Unlimited log derived metrics are included with logs.

No overages. Period.

Included

Datadog

Proprietary agent

Limited:
Traces: 15 minutes. 15 days max for indexed spans
Logs: 3 days. Extended retention for additional cost
Metrics: 15 months

Create, maintain, and migrate between data tiers – Indexed, Flex, or Archives. Manually rehydrade and reindex data

Multiple backends for metrics, traces, and logs lead to slower analytics.

Every metric derived from logs is charged extra as custom metric.

Frequent overage bills due to complex pricing and unexpected rise in custom metrics.

Available at an additional cost of 8% of your monthly Datadog spend

Why Your Datadog Bill Keeps Climbing—and How to Stop It

Datadog can become very expensive when all hidden costs are added up. We’ve outlined the three main reasons why Datadog customers are transitioning away. Read our solution brief to learn more.

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