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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 :)