[2-m3m3n70]

Can you elaborate on what's good / bad about it? We have been looking for a metrics solution and trying to find a good option.

What I'm confused about DataDog is they charge your per host - how exactly does that work if you are just reporting metrics (I guess you have to pay per host you are reporting metrics from).

[nopzor]

Watching how players in the space are evolving how and what they bill for is interesting.

I think that charging by host is a lot easier for general buyers to understand and things generally average out.

I was recently also interested by the new signalfx pricing model - its really priced by metric volume but they sell it by host. When you peel back the covers they're just including a certain amount of metric volume with each host and your actual bill will vary.

Obviously underlying costs are tied to the amount of metrics, not the amount of hosts.

We are using Datadog for a bunch of stuff right now, and we generally like it. The per-host pricing model does get a bit hard to swallow especially when you have a bunch of really small hosts. Your monitoring bill can start to approach your hosting bill :)