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by whateveracct 2469 days ago
They charge $15/host and their service is good enough that you can often say that's well worth it, so I think so.
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socialist_coder 2469 days ago
The $15 a host thing was only true before they started charging for custom metrics. Now they want you to add APM to your plan and it's much more expensive.

I'm transitioning off of DataDog right now because of this change. My contract came up for renewal and they want to charge me a TON more because of my custom metrics.

All my custom metrics do is track the time of each request. It's basically APM but I've had it setup for years, way before they rolled out APM. So yeah, $15 a host would be awesome if that's actually what the price was. But why would you pay $15 a host and only get CPU/memory charts? That stuff is built into AWS... So I'm not even sure what the $15 gets you that is actually useful.

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lizthegrey 2469 days ago
What're you moving off to, out of curiosity?
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Bombthecat 2469 days ago
I don't know where he moved to, but maybe lock into sisdig or netdata. Or if it is api specific lock into kong and grafana.

Or if you realy want to dig deep into api data (like how often is send a credit request with which data) look into axway decisions insight.

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xtracto 2468 days ago
$15/host sounds extremely expensive! Is that per year?

My no money side project startup has 5 micro instances and could not imagine paying $75 per month

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whateveracct 2468 days ago
It's per month.

There is a free tier (up to 5 hosts I think), but yeah. It's that expensive and still people use it!

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