Pain point · Pricing & plans · Causes churn
Custom metrics make gradual migrations much more expensive
1 source thread · first seen 2023-11
Summary
Metrics scraped from Prometheus were classified as custom unless they came from Datadog's agent, and the resulting costs could have increased the bill by 10x. The team reduced those metrics and switched to official agent metrics and configs.
- Affects
- Heavy telemetry users
- Workaround
- Dialed back Prometheus-scraped metrics and used official Datadog agent metrics and configs.
Evidence
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“anything not an official DD metric (that is, collected by their agent typically) is custom and then becomes substantially more expensive”