Datadog

Full-stack enterprise observability

PaidMonitoring & error trackingdatadoghq.com

What it is

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 it earns a slot

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.

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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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Pricing snapshot

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.

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Evaluate Datadog (https://www.datadoghq.com) for this project, then use it only if it fits what we are already building.
Context: Full-stack enterprise observability. 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.
Reviewer notes (general, not written for this codebase): 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.
Watch out for: 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.
Pricing: 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.
Rules: treat the notes above as background only. Do not assume a theme, style, layout or feature that is not already in this project — inspect the existing code first and ask me before changing visual direction.

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