Comment by marcinzm

> Cost is the most common complaint and it's almost always from people who don't have it configured correctly (which to be fair Datadog makes it far too easy to misconfigure things and blow up costs).

Datadog's cheapest pricing is $15/host/month. I believe that is based on the largest sustained peak usage you have.

We run spot instances on AWS for machine learning workflows. A lot of them if we're training and none otherwise. Usually we're using zero. Using DataDog at it's lowest price would basically double the cost of those instances.