DataDog have an extractive pricing model. It’s undergone a number of changes over the years that separated out features previously under the host price into their own products with separate monthly costs. They put limits on the numbers of unique containers you can have per host before charging container fees, so better hope you don’t have too many crash-restart loops or. Theres the per unique host per billing period pricing model that makes it impossible to scale your own infrastructure up and down to save on hardware costs, one personal case I can attest to was case the changes would halve the AWS bill but increase the DataDog bill by more than 10 times, a thousand percent… and you would think surely you can talk to the sales team if your use case fits extremely poorly with the pricing model…. Hahaha no… unless your a whale they give zero fucks about giving you any flexibility on price.