Are Soaring Datadog Costs Draining Your Budget?
Compare Observe vs. Datadog. Migrate to a cloud-native observability solution with predicable and transparent pricing that dramatically lowers your costs.
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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.
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
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