Introduction

The cost of using Datadog is your daily spending on all the Datadog services and features. Integrating Datadog with DoiT enables you to monitor Datadog spend alongside AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure costs in a single platform, giving you a holistic view of your Datadog cost and usage across cloud environments.

Benefits

• Unified cost structure: DoiT enables you to integrate Datadog cost and usage data alongside data from other cloud providers, giving you a comprehensive view of your cloud expenditures and facilitating better financial decision-making.

• Enhanced visibility: Once you've imported your Datadog data into the DoiT platform, you can start using Cloud Analytics and other DoiT features such as Budgets, Attribution groups, Forecasting and Anomaly detection to analyze and monitor your Datadog cost and usage.

Key features

• Datadog Lens: The preset Datadog Lens dashboard helps you identify and track your Datadog cost and usage. Use the Lens dashboard to decide how and when to optimize costs, monitor performance, and more.

• Real commitment cost (non-amortized): Tracking real commitment cost (non-amortized) is important for understanding the immediate financial impact of your Datadog costs, ensuring your business accurately accounts for your Datadog expenditure.

• Cost per host: DoiT enables you to see the costs per host where a Datadog agent is installed, enabling proactive cost control and budgeting. Once you have connected your Datadog account, you can use the Datadog Lens to identify and track your Datadog costs per host..

• Dashboard popularity: DoiT enables you to see the top Datadog dashboards being used in your organization. It provides valuable insights into priorities and areas of focus, improving monitoring practice and facilitating collaboration. See also Daily dashboard popularity trend.