The joke used to be 'splunk is amazing until the first invoice comes in', it's f...

jcrites · on Sept 21, 2023

Yes ... it's very possible for DataDog costs to exceed the cost of the infrastructure that it's monitoring (e.g. AWS). I've seen it happen.

(If you aren't careful and aren't managing your costs, but I suppose that's true of almost anything =)

gibolt · on Sept 21, 2023

Sounds like a double whammy. Misconfigure one AWS service, and you get hit with a giant bill from both.