Switching reason · Pricing & plans · Causes churn
Datadog cost and sales pressure led to migration
1 source thread · first seen 2024-07
Summary
The company said Datadog price increases and repeated sales pressure made the service more expensive than its highest-paid salaries. It switched to Prometheus and Grafana for similar functionality at a much lower cost.
- Affects
- Startup
- Switched to or considered
- Prometheus/Grafana
Evidence
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“the startup I worked for was paying Datadog more money per-month than the highest-paid salaries on the team”