Introduction
As an engineer dabbling with technologies and building solutions for customers, I like Datadog. It’s one of the fastest ways to get observability setup. To add to it, their documentation and help articles are comprehensive and easy to follow making the user experience even better.
As a decision-maker, I like Datadog because I can set up observability at a relatively lower cost without having to operate and maintain my own observability system.
But there are cases where the TCO (total cost of ownership) of Datadog may not be efficient as the organization scales. We noticed this trend when speaking to our customers. Many customers after reaching a certain scale were feeling the pinch of the cost. They were looking for alternatives with hope of reducing the TCO. This led us to investigate & simulate the migration so we can prove the hypothesis and help our customers decide whether they should stay with Datadog or migrate to an alternative solution. Also, we had set up observability systems for customers based on OSS technologies, so we were already aware of the cost of setting up & operating such platforms!
Read the full post on https://www.infracloud.io/blogs/datadog-alternative-when-to-move-out/
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