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Datadog Cost Optimization: Custom Metrics, Logs, and Commitments
LevelFour reads your Datadog bill and contract, then ships the savings: unused custom metrics, oversized log indexes, and on-demand overage.
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LevelFour now connects to Datadog. You see every Datadog product's spend by day and by team, next to your cloud, SaaS and AI spend, and your usage against the contract with a month-end forecast. Then LevelFour ships the savings for you.
What LevelFour finds
- Custom metrics nobody uses, trimmed with Metrics without Limits.
- Tags nobody queries on the metrics your team does use, dropped so each metric counts fewer combinations.
- Logs kept in expensive indexes longer than anyone searches them, moved to Flex Logs.
- Debug and health-check logs filtered out before indexing.
- On-demand charges above your commitment, with an alert before they start and a commitment sized to your usage at renewal.
- Datadog costs that land on your AWS bill, like log archives and CloudWatch polling.
Each saving ships as a change in your Datadog account or as a pull request to your Terraform.
Get started
Start with LevelFour and connect your Datadog parent organization with two keys, as the Datadog connector docs show. Your Datadog spend shows up the next day.
Frequently asked questions
How do I reduce Datadog costs?
Trim unused custom metrics, move old logs to Flex Logs, and size your commitment to real usage. LevelFour finds each one and ships the change.
Does LevelFour change my Datadog account?
Only to ship a saving, through the Datadog API or a pull request on your Terraform.
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