My experience with using Datadog at (some) scale was that they focused on making it really, really easy to integrate their agent with your apps, and then once they had a large base of users with high switching costs they started rapidly raising prices.

In other words: My claim isn’t that they were better at ingestion but at onboarding and at creating switching costs.

Since that was how their leadership acted last time I used their code, I expect the same leadership to act the same way again with this other piece of code they own.