Switching reason · Pricing & plans · Causes churn
Pricing drove a switch to Grafana
4 source threads · first seen 2020-05 · last seen 2025-06
Summary
The user switched from Datadog to Grafana and describes Datadog pricing as a reason to leave.
- Switched to or considered
- Grafana
Evidence
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“By switching to Better Stack, we were able to cut our monitoring and alerting costs by 90%”
“We switched from Datadog to Grafana (do not recommend unless they got you over a barrel on pricing”
“Costs get raised by more than double because we're beholden, so now we need to fund 20+ engineer quarters to migrate everything ASAP”
“We just moved everything from datadog to Grafana, Prometheus and Loki, mainly due to cost”