> I never understood why people pay so much for Datadog, seems like such a weird business model where people use it only because it's convenient but after imple

> I never understood why people pay so much for Datadog, seems like such a weird business model where people use it only because it's convenient but after implementing Datadog their only goal is to use it as a stop gap before they use something cheaper (i.e. Cloudwatch) Once you really use it, the observability it provides is first class. You can look at metrics, traces, logs all connected to each other and build out amazing reliable systems. You start getting so many metrics right out of the box, that alone makes it super useful to developers, product and business folks. Combine some RUM with it and all of a sudden, you can see pretty much everything happening with your services 24/7, in a way that suits your own needs. And all of this with seriously low latency to detection. It feels like a top quality service built by top notch engineers. Cloudwatch doesn't even come close. That said, I agree that Datadog is EXPENSIVE.