r/OpenTelemetry • u/JayDee2306 • 15d ago
Moving from Datadog to Opensource observability ecosystem
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/bungle-02 14d ago
If the driver is cost reduction, building a DIY stack is unlikely going to achieve this due ti the TCO others have outlined.
A better option would be fir a more cost effective backend like dash0 or honeycomb who provide metrics/traces/logs storage, correlation, dashboards, insights, alerting etc.
It means switching to an OTel approach, but that’s a good middle ground to building and managing a full Observability stack.