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  "name": "Datadog",
  "url": "https://www.datadoghq.com",
  "cat": "watch",
  "group": "ship",
  "tagline": "Full-stack enterprise observability",
  "price": "Free: 5 hosts, 1-day metric retention. Pro $15/host/mo annual ($18 on-demand). Logs $0.10/GB ingested plus $1.70 per 1M indexed events. RUM from $0.15 per 1K sessions.",
  "tier": "paid",
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  "what": "The enterprise observability platform: infrastructure metrics, APM, logs, RUM, session replay, synthetics and security in one product with hundreds of integrations. The free tier is capped at five hosts with one-day metric retention, which makes it an evaluation tier rather than a production one. Cloud-only.",
  "why": "Rarely the right first tool for a solo builder, but if the day job already runs on Datadog you know the query language and dashboards, which is worth real time.",
  "warn": "Bills are famously spiky. Custom metrics cost $5 per 100 beyond the per-host allowance and one high-cardinality tag can create thousands of them. Logs are charged twice, once to ingest at $0.10/GB and again to index at $1.70 per million events.",
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    "key": "watch",
    "name": "Monitoring & error tracking",
    "desc": "You will not hear about the bug. This is how you find out.",
    "group": "ship",
    "groupName": "Ship it & keep it alive"
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    "status_code": 200,
    "final_url": "https://www.datadoghq.com/",
    "checked_at": "2026-08-19T00:58:08.071+00:00"
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