Cut your Datadog bill by up to 90%
OpenObserve provides logs, metrics, and traces without the per-host pricing, custom metrics, and endless add-ons that squeeze companies as they scale.
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Datadog: Lack of Predictability and Transparency
Engineering teams are leaving Datadog as bills fluctuate 15–35% month over month and observability becomes a cost center.
Cost out-of-control
Pricing is driven by tags, services, and data structure, not just usage. What looks like normal growth turns into unpredictable cost increases.
Engineering becomes a cost center
Datadog costs grow unpredictably as systems scale. Instead of enabling engineering, observability becomes a line item in question every quarter.
Critical data is missing
To control cost, teams sample telemetry and indexing a small portion of ingestion volume. During incidents, those gaps turn a 10-minute fix into hours of downtime during your next P0 incident.
Datadog vs OpenObserve
Side-by-side comparison across logs, metrics, traces, features, and pricing
| Feature | Datadog | OpenObserve |
|---|---|---|
| Logs | ✓ | ✓ |
| Metrics | ✓ | ✓ |
| Traces | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open Source | ✗ | ✓ |
| Dashboards | ✓ | ✓ |
| Alerts | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pipelines | ✓ | ✓ |
| OpenTelemetry Native | Partial | ✓ Full |
| Per-Host Pricing | $15-27/host/mo | $0 |
| Custom Metrics | $0.05/metric | Unlimited, included |
| Self-Hosted Option | ✗ | ✓ |
| Bring Your Own Storage | ✗ | Use S3, GCS, Azure Blob, or MinIO |
| IAM & SSO | Enterprise tier only | Included in Enterprise/Cloud with no premium cost |
"OpenObserve has proven to be a reliable and cost-effective solution built to address real-world challenges."
Women’s fashion retailer with 2,500+ employees, nationwide stores, and eCommerce.
90% cost reduction
Datadog: 112 auto-generated metrics, billed separately (~$217/month in test) vs OpenObserve: all metrics $0.30/GB.
One platform for all signals
Replaced Datadog, New Relic, and Prometheus/Grafana with a single system.
Unlimited monitoring with long-term retention
No limits on custom metrics and data retention, enabling year-over-year visibility for critical analytics.
Migrating is as easy as 1, 2, 3
Start where you are. No rip-and-replace. OpenTelemetry ready.
Point your OTel collector
Change the endpoint in your existing OpenTelemetry configuration. This takes about 2 minutes.
Import dashboards and set alerts
Recreate dashboards and configure alerts. SQL queries and built-in integrations make it straightforward.
Run both in parallel
Keep Datadog running while during transition. Cut over when you are ready.
Ready to stop overpaying for observability?
If you have less than 6 months left on your Datadog contract, switch to OpenObserve. If savings don’t match, we cover the difference (up to $100K).