Still justifying your Datadog costs?
You won't have to.
5x lower cost. Cursor-like debugging. Effortless automated migration.
“Full migration of 3,500 nodes in 6 weeks - my friends were shocked”
“Oodle replaced Splunk, AWS OpenSearch, and CloudWatch with a single, faster platform.”
“Leveraging the Datadog client made it much simpler to switch over”
“Switching to Oodle has been remarkable - dashboards load much faster. It took less than 6 hours to achieve 3x cost reduction.”
“We never thought we could easily switch until Oodle proved otherwise”
Trusted by startups, unicorns and public companies
What engineers are actually saying about Datadog
Real feedback from our customers and from public forums.
Complex, Unpredictable, Escalating Bills
15+ pricing dimensions. Costs spike without warning. Nobody understands the bill.
"I gotta hand it to DataDog's sales team - it's the biggest combination of expensive and useless I've ever seen in my life, but they've somehow managed to convince the people with the checkbooks that they can't live without it."
— Hacker NewsHigh Cardinality Cost Penalties
Custom metrics at $0.05 each and high cardinality cost penalties add up to thousands.
"The 'omg my bill is out of control' issue is usually from relying heavily on custom metrics added over time, so you think you're paying X but really end up paying 2-3X or more by end of year."
— Hacker NewsVendor Lock-in & Architectural Constraints
Per-host billing forces architectural decisions. Proprietary agents create lock-in.
"I've heard a company end up rearchitecting their instance type choices due to Datadog billing on a per-node basis. Their business model encourages some very specific architectures which doesn't work for everyone."
— Hacker NewsAI that’s expensive and inconsistent
You pay a lot for results that often look like generic advice.
"The one time I demoed it, it gave me very generic advice that didn't really apply and charged me $32 bucks."
— Reddit (r/sre)Additional reported issues
Oodle: Re-architected from the ground up
Built by the team behind Amazon S3, DynamoDB, Rubrik, and Snowflake
Why engineers switch to Oodle
Modern observability without the cost surprises
Predictable, transparent pricing
- S3 + Serverless architecture - no disks and no dedicated compute drastically reduces cost
- Just 2 billing dimensions: time series + GB ingested
- No per-host, per-user, per-feature fees
Predictable Pricing, sub-linear pricing as you scale!
No cardinality penalties
- No custom metrics surcharges
- Columnar storage optimized for high cardinality
- Use all the labels and dimensions you need
Add the labels you need without cost anxiety.
Ask questions in plain English
- Cursor-like debugging with in-product AI Assistant
- AI Assistant available wherever you are - UI, Slack, Cursor, Claude Code
- No query languages to learn, no tribal knowledge needed
- Debug incidents faster by letting AI validate your hypothesis
Debug in minutes, not hours. AI does the heavy lifting
Zero vendor lock-in
- Ingest data from any agent — Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, etc.
- UI based on open source - Grafana for metrics, OpenSearch for logs
- Export dashboards & alerts to OSS formats anytime
Easy to get in, easy to get out
Calculate your savings
Enter your Datadog infrastructure details and see how much you could save with Oodle's usage-based pricing.
Find your host count on the Infrastructure List in Datadog.
Auto-calculated: 500 hosts × 1,500 infra metrics/host.
Check your standard metrics on the Metric Overview page in Datadog. ~1,500 per host is a rough approximation. Actual values vary by infrastructure.
Check your custom metrics on the Metric Overview page in Datadog.
Total Cost of Ownership
80% savings vs Datadog
Datadog
SaaS
Oodle
Fully managed
Get started in minutes
Keep your existing Datadog agent. Just add a few lines to start shipping data to Oodle.
MetricsLogsTracesYour existing instrumentation works out of the box with Oodle.
Switch Under a Week
Keep your Datadog agent running. Zero downtime. No code changes required.
How to Switch
Configure Dual-Ship
15 min10-line config change to send data to both Datadog and Oodle simultaneously
View docsVerify Data and Migrated Assets
3 daysConfirm all metrics, logs, and traces are flowing correctly into Oodle. Oodle migrates all your dashboards and monitors automatically.
Cutover
1 dayConfigure Datadog agent to send only to Oodle
Who is Switching
“We'd used Datadog for eight years and we never thought we could easily switch until Oodle proved otherwise. Oodle migrated thousands of nodes, dashboards, and alerts in weeks. Performance improved, costs dropped, and they've been a dependable, transparent partner.”
Nagendra Swamy
VP Engineering, Lookout
DatadogDatadog
OpenSearch
Splunk
CloudWatchProven at enterprise scale
What changes when you switch
From cost anxiety to observability freedom
Capabilities Datadog doesn't have
Oodle isn't just a replacement – it's an upgrade with capabilities built for modern observability.
AI-Native Debugging
- Ask questions in plain English across logs, metrics, and traces
- Cursor-like debugging with an in-product AI assistant that narrows to likely root cause
- Available wherever you work: UI, Slack, Cursor, Claude Code — via our MCP server
- Validate your hypothesis fast with context and evidence, not guesswork
Predictable, Transparent Pricing
- Just 2 billing dimensions vs Datadog's 15+
- No custom metric fees, no cardinality penalties
- No per-host, per-container, or per-user charges
Open Standards, No Lock-in
- Native OpenTelemetry - use your existing instrumentation
- PromQL compatible - bring your Prometheus queries
- Export to OSS formats anytime - your data stays yours
Enterprise-ready from day one
Security and compliance built without compromise
Ready to replace Datadog?
Go live in 15 minutes. No data limits. No infrastructure changes.