Lead Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
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Apr 13, 2026
Datadog Services could be better in terms of cost, which is extremely high. They charge a lot of money, and I've seen monthly bills reaching ten thousand dollars for a very small product in my current organization, leading us to consider switching to open-source solutions like SigNoz, or to a solution called Honeycomb for traces, while we use SigNoz for metrics, which has almost significantly reduced our observability costs by around ninety percent. The overall usability and accessibility of Datadog Services, along with its ease of integration, is extremely good, so I must acknowledge their well-crafted documentation on setup. Setting up the agent and getting the metrics was extremely easy, but unfortunately, the only downside remains the cost due to their high premium on existing systems. However, they are pioneers with some good AI agents running, making analysis and alerting extremely proficient, but the cost continues to be an issue.
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Datadog Services could be better in terms of cost, which is extremely high. They charge a lot of money, and I've seen monthly bills reaching ten thousand dollars for a very small product in my current organization, leading us to consider switching to open-source solutions like SigNoz, or to a solution called Honeycomb for traces, while we use SigNoz for metrics, which has almost significantly reduced our observability costs by around ninety percent. The overall usability and accessibility of Datadog Services, along with its ease of integration, is extremely good, so I must acknowledge their well-crafted documentation on setup. Setting up the agent and getting the metrics was extremely easy, but unfortunately, the only downside remains the cost due to their high premium on existing systems. However, they are pioneers with some good AI agents running, making analysis and alerting extremely proficient, but the cost continues to be an issue.