How much does Datadog cost per host?

Datadog Infrastructure: $15/host/month (Pro) or $23/host/month (Enterprise). APM adds $31/host/month. A 50-host production environment with APM: ~$2,300-2,700/month — often 10-15% of total infrastructure cost.

Is there a free alternative to Datadog?

Grafana Cloud (free up to 10K metrics), Prometheus + Grafana self-hosted (infrastructure cost only), and AWS CloudWatch (pay per metric/log/alarm) are common cost-reducing alternatives to Datadog.

What does AWS CloudWatch cost vs Datadog?

CloudWatch custom metrics: $0.30/metric/month. 50 metrics: $15/month. Dashboards: $3/month each. Alarms: $0.10/month. For AWS-only environments, CloudWatch is often 5-10x cheaper than Datadog.

Monitoring Cost Per Host Per Month Calculator

How It Works

Calculate cloud infrastructure monitoring costs per host per month across Datadog, New Relic, Grafana Cloud, and AWS CloudWatch. Estimate full observability stack cost

Each component has a specific meaning:

Datadog — The datadog recorded for the scenario being assessed.
New Relic — The new relic recorded for the scenario being assessed.
Grafana Cloud — The grafana cloud recorded for the scenario being assessed.
AWS CloudWatch — The aws cloudwatch recorded for the scenario being assessed.

Note: Interpret the monitoring cost result against the thresholds and context described above.

How to Use

Enter the Datadog, New Relic, Grafana Cloud, AWS CloudWatch for the scenario you are assessing. Calculate cloud infrastructure monitoring costs per host per month across Datadog, New Relic, Grafana Cloud, and AWS CloudWatch. Estimate full observability stack cost. Use the monitoring cost result to inform your calculation.

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