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> This incident was costly, at $5M in lost revenue directly as a result of the outage, as revealed in a later earnings call. This was due to usage-based billing

No SLA whatsoever? Send Datadog your data, they lose it all, no discount or penalty but at least they don't charge you for storing it?

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They didn't lose any data according to this article.

> For most customers, Datadog’s live functionality was restored within a day and a half, and all data was backfilled within two days, with no reported data loss.

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