Datadog Pricing: Get the details on 2024 pricing
Datadog pricing: How it works
When it comes to observability, complex pricing is not a good thing as it translates into poor price transparency. This inevitably leads to expensive overages. Complex pricing also creates a culture of fear, where technology teams are hesitant to use much needed services as they might exceed budget constraints.
Let’s take a look at some of the factors that contribute to Datadog’s complex pricing structure:
Datadog has different pricing structures and tiers per service
To start, Datadog offers a broad range of tools each with their dizzying array of pricing structures. Here are some examples:
| Datadog Service | Pricing Structure | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Log Ingestion | Per ingested GB, per month | $0.10 |
| Log Retention (30 days) | Per million log events, per month | $2.50 |
| APM | Per host, per month | $31 – $40 (range reflects different tiers and access to features) |
| Infrastructure Monitoring | Per host, per month | $15 – $34 (range reflects different tiers and access to features) |
| Database Monitoring | Per database host, per month | $70 |
| RUM | Per 1,000 sessions, per month | $1.50 |
Datadog pushes bundled services
Some Datadog services can only be purchased if you already are an existing customer for another service. For example, you can only purchase Database Monitoring if you are an Infrastructure Monitoring customer. This conditional service offering potentially forces you to pay for features you don’t want or need.
Datadog data retention and rehydration
Longer data retention leads to higher Datadog costs forcing you to choose which data you can easily access and which needs to be archived. Furthermore, if you need to rehydrate data, this entails an additional cost of $1.70 per million log events, per month. Learn more about Coralogix’s Remote Querying vs. Datadog’s Flex Logs.
Datadog agent-based pricing complexity
The pricing for Datadog’s proprietary agents monitoring your systems can become complex, as it may vary depending on the type of data they collect and the frequency of collection.
Datadog overages and on-demand pricing
Datadog prices often reflect annual commitment. Without this upfront commitment or in situations where you exceed your data or host limit, you may need to pay on-demand pricing for overages which can be very expensive.
Datadog support costs
Datadog’s standard support, while free, is limited to business hours for non-critical issues. If you want 24/7 support for general issues, you need to pay 8% of your monthly spend with a minimum of $2,000 per month. So if you spend $200,000 annually on Datadog, you will need to shell out another $16,000 just for 24/7 support.
Cost-effective observability with Coralogix
With Coralogix full-stack observability, you only pay for the data ingested and processed. Our unique in-stream analysis empowers you to query and analyze all your data (logs, traces, metrics, security events) as well as generate alerts and insights without indexing and hot storage. The simplicity of our pricing model creates transparency and predictability so you can better manage your data and avoid overages.
Coralogix’s TCO optimizer enables you to choose the most efficient and cost-effective way to store and process your logs, metrics and traces while enjoying access to all our services and features. Many Coralogix customers have moved most of their data to low-cost archive storage with our built-in data routing and rapid querying of unstructured data stored in archive, directly from the Coralogix UI.
Coralogix is also open source-friendly so you can continue working with your preferred shipping agents. Additionally data is stored in open source Parquet so there is zero vendor lock-in.
It’s important to note that there are no costs for querying data. Additionally, Coralogix provides 24/7 support with an average 1 minute response time and an average resolution time of 1 hour, for no extra cost.
Below is the Coralogix pricing calculator and our straightforward pricing model for full-stack observability.
Coralogix Pricing for Logs, Traces and Metrics
Logs
| Tier Name | Use Case | Price per GB |
|---|---|---|
| Frequent Search | Logs that you frequently query as raw textual data at lightning speed. | $1.15 |
| Monitoring | Logs that you need for dashboards and real-time alerting and occasional searches. | $0.60 |
| Compliance | Logs that you only need for regulatory purposes or similar. | $0.14 |
Traces
| Tier Name | Use Case | Price per GB |
|---|---|---|
| Frequent Search | Traces that you need to search frequently at lightning speed. | $0.75 |
| Monitoring | Traces that you need for dashboards and real-time alerting and occasional searches. | $0.38 |
| Compliance | Traces that you only need for regulatory purposes or similar. | $0.15 |
Metrics
Metrics, due to their lightweight nature can be queried at lightning speed with infinite retention at just $0.05 per GB.