This sounds only slightly less irritating than the Datadog agent which has features on by default that are billed at the on-demand rate.
Can you please elaborate on what these features are? I used to work in the agent team and we were cautious not to have that happen.
- some integrations have options to collect more timeseries. If the volume is too high, these will be marked in the documentation as billed as custom metrics
- custom integrations (including custom prometheus/openmetrics instances) are billed as custom metrics, as if they were sent through statsd
- container monitoring (enabled by default in the docker image, but not the other agent installations) is included up to 10 concurrent containers per host ; additional containers are billed on-demand
When installing for logging purposes this is not expected or desired. It wasn’t at the point that I encountered it, but I don’t believe the documentation notes this anywhere still.
Normally this wouldn’t be an issue and would be more cautious in production, but was using the Agent on some Dev machines to ship logs and was surprised to see Host metrics from them unintentionally along with the bill.