DataDog per host pricing can be very expensive. Metrics are provided by many platforms. If you need logs too, you may look at Sumo Logic which got way cheaper metrics in typical use case.
Disclaimer: I work at Sumo Logic.
Disclaimer: I work at Sumo Logic.
It's meaningless to look at the price of Datadog@5 hosts -- at 500 or 5000, you're paying a completely detached number from the website list price, likely a small fraction.
You'll also experience their habit of launching new features, waiting a while for customers to adopt them, then starting to charge extra for them.
Don't get me wrong, Datadog has great products. But they're also great at extracting money from their customers.