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by sosodev 1101 days ago
I haven’t heard of any big companies switching away from DataDog. They have a product that is both genuinely valuable and very sticky. Once you’re in it’s hard to get out and they know that.
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That comment was not specifically about Datadog. Datadog is a pretty good service so they will survive, as long as they don't go ballistic with their prices.

In general, someone will have to take a haircut in order to keep stock prices up. Either it will be execs, or customers, or employees.

The first shot is always fired at employees with layoffs. Next shot is fired at customers with raised prices. Last shot is a tussle among the execs (yes, even execs have hierarchies among themselves)

It’s hard to leave, but very feasible to cut cardinality, add sampling, and reduce costs once they cross the line