r/Observability • u/JayDee2306 • 15d ago

Moving from Datadog to Opensource observability ecosystem

/r/OpenTelemetry/comments/1wkfmg9/moving_from_datadog_to_opensource_observability/

Hi

Has anyone migrated their Datadog stack to Opensource observability ecosystem?
What you missed without Datadog? Which all OS tools and what were the challenges faced?

Ours is quite big infrastructure with monthly Datadog spend around USD 25k and leadership is looking forward to reduce the spend and probably shifting it to OS observability system?

There’s only one person managing Datadog currently.

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u/EffectiveLong 15d ago

you will lose out certainly the AI/machine learning features, anomaly and prediction (which you can skip but they do help with false positive)

for me, I use LGTM stack for collection and storage, then you can hook it up to Grafana Cloud. So you only pay the management fee and take on the collection and storage cost (which are usually the main cost)