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Re:Cisco Acquires Splunk by baq on Thursday September 21, 2023 @11:10AM (#37598808)
The joke used to be 'splunk is amazing until the first invoice comes in', it's funny because it's true. Note Datadog is very similar in that regard.
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Re:Cisco Acquires Splunk by jcrites on Thursday September 21, 2023 @11:17AM (#37598919)
Yes ... it's very possible for DataDog costs to exceed the cost of the infrastructure that it's monitoring (e.g. AWS). I've seen it happen.

(If you aren't careful and aren't managing your costs, but I suppose that's true of almost anything =)

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Re:Cisco Acquires Splunk by gibolt on Thursday September 21, 2023 @01:26PM (#37600933)
Sounds like a double whammy. Misconfigure one AWS service, and you get hit with a giant bill from both.
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