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Are soaring Datadog costs draining your budget?
Compare Observe vs. Datadog. Migrate to a cloud-native observability solution with predictable and transparent pricing that dramatically lowers your costs.
Datadog: Unexpected overage bills and sneaky high costs
- 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.
Datadog
Architecture
Cloud-native. Separates compute from storage
Scalability
Elastically scales as needed
Instrumentation and Collection
OpenTelemetry-Native
Proprietary agent
Data Retention
13 months by default for all data
Limited:
- Traces: 15 minutes. 15 days max for indexed spans
- Logs: 3 days. Extended retention for additional cost
- Metrics: 15 months
Data Tiers
All data is always kept hot
Create, maintain, and migrate between data tiers – Indexed, Flex, or Archives. Manually rehydrade and reindex data
Unified Observability
All telemetry data in one data lake with one query language and one consistent UI for faster correlations and troubleshooting
Multiple backends for metrics, traces, and logs lead to slower analytics.
Data Encryption
Included by default. All data is encrypted in-transit and at-rest
Log Derived Metrics
No additional charge. Unlimited log derived metrics are included with logs.
Every metric derived from logs is charged extra as custom metric.
Overage Bill
No overages. Period.
Frequent overage bills due to complex pricing and unexpected rise in custom metrics.
Premium Support & Customer Success
Included
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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