Folks on this thread might want to check out SigNoz (https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz). It's an open source alternative to Datadog.
I am one of the maintainers at SigNoz. We have come across many more horror stories around Datadog billing while interacting with our users.
We recently did a deep dive on pricing, and found some interesting insights on how it is priced compared to other products.
Datadog's billing has two key issues:
- Very complex SKU based pricing which makes it impossible to predict how much it would cost
- Custom metrics billing ($0.05 per custom metric) - we found that custom metrics can account for up to 52% of the total billing which just does not make sense
I am one of the maintainers at SigNoz. We have come across many more horror stories around Datadog billing while interacting with our users.
We recently did a deep dive on pricing, and found some interesting insights on how it is priced compared to other products.
Datadog's billing has two key issues:
- Very complex SKU based pricing which makes it impossible to predict how much it would cost
- Custom metrics billing ($0.05 per custom metric) - we found that custom metrics can account for up to 52% of the total billing which just does not make sense
More details in the blog here with a complete spreadsheet for detailed calculation https://signoz.io/blog/pricing-comparison-signoz-vs-datadog-...