Datadog 7.0 pricing criticized; OpenTelemetry and Prometheus offer budget alternatives

After migrating 14 production microservices across 200 hosts, engineer criticizes Datadog 7.0 pricing and promotes OpenTelemetry 1.20 and Prometheus as alternatives.

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This opinion reflects growing trend among organizations to reassess cloud observability platform costs.

Open-source tools gain ground against expensive proprietary solutions.

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