Pain point · Pricing & plans · Blocks work
Sending structured logs to Datadog would nearly double IT spend
3 source threads · first seen 2024-01 · last seen 2026-01
Summary
The user estimates that sending all service structured logs to Datadog under their current retention policy would nearly double their IT spend. They use Grafana, Loki, and ClickHouse instead, at under $100 per month.
- Workaround
- Uses Grafana, Loki, and ClickHouse instead.
Evidence
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“it would just about double our current IT spend”
“Datadog seems to have switched to revenue extraction in a way that would make oracle proud”
“We use Datadog, but try and be fairly barebones about it because it’s really expensive at scale”