Everything Datadog monitors. Without the Datadog Bill.
One platform that replaces every Datadog product your team is currently paying for separately.
Avg. cost savings vs Datadog
Setup time with auto-instrumentation
Teams who switched
Rating on G2 & Capterra
Integrations built-in
Datadog grew up for Fortune 500 budgets. Your team shouldn't have to.
Datadog is a powerful platform; there's no denying it. But its pricing model was designed for enterprises with dedicated FinOps teams managing observability spend. As your stack scales, Datadog bills across APM hosts, log ingestion, indexed spans, RUM sessions, custom metrics, containers, and synthetics, each with its own pricing dimension. The result is a bill that's nearly impossible to predict until finance sends the alert. Teams under 300 hosts are routinely paying enterprise prices for startup-scale visibility. Meanwhile, Atatus delivers the same full-stack insight for APM, RUM, logs, infra in one flat, predictable plan. That's why over 40+ teams have made the switch.
01 — Pricing
Predictable costs that don't punish growth
Atatus uses flat per-host plans with all signals included. No per-GB log traps, no custom metric overages, no separate RUM add-ons. Budget with confidence as you scale.
02 — Support
Enterprise-grade support when you need it
24/7 customer support across all plans. Dedicated account managers for enterprise customers. Comprehensive documentation, onboarding assistance, and expert guidance to help your team get the most out of the platform.
03 — Feature
Datadog-level capabilities without the complexity
Everything you'd expect from enterprise observability: distributed tracing, custom dashboards, advanced alerting, anomaly detection, and synthetic monitoring. Atatus matches industry-leading platforms feature-for-feature while maintaining simplicity in deployment and pricing.
Know exactly when Atatus fits your team
Not every team is the same. Here's when Atatus delivers the most value and when Datadog might still make sense.
Control your observability spend
If finance has flagged your Datadog invoice or your monitoring bill is growing faster than your team, Atatus flat-rate pricing eliminates the unpredictability.
Ship faster with less friction
If your team is spending more time managing Datadog than using it, Atatus's opinionated defaults and unified dashboard cut setup and triage time dramatically.
See frontend AND backend together
If you're running a separate tool for RUM and another for APM, Atatus native frontend-backend correlation gives you the full picture in one view.
Instrument without DevOps debt
If adding observability coverage means a sprint of agent configuration and YAML, Atatus auto-detection gets you from zero to traces in one command.
Scale without bill anxiety
If auto-scaling means dreading your next Datadog invoice, Atatus host-based flat pricing means your monitoring cost scales linearly and predictably.
Meet compliance requirements
SOC 2 Type II, GDPR compliant, with EU data residency options. Enterprise security without enterprise complexity.
Atatus vs Datadog
We have broken down the comparison by the dimensions that matter most to engineering teams. Pick the tab for your role.
Atatus Platform
APM, RUM, Logs, Infra & Synthetics all included in one plan with no add-on purchasing
Single unified dashboard correlates frontend, backend, and infrastructure signals natively
OpenTelemetry native and no proprietary lock-in, switch collectors freely
Flat per-host pricing. Predictable bills every month, regardless of data volume spikes
On-premise deployment option available for regulated industries
Datadog Platform
Each signal type (APM, Logs, RUM, Synthetics) is a separate billable product
Unified dashboard across all products and industry-leading correlation at scale
OTel supported but custom metrics incur additional charges when using OTel collectors
Multi-dimensional pricing: per-host + per-GB + per-session + per-metric. Extremely hard to forecast
SaaS-only; no on-premise option for compliance-sensitive environments
We were paying for Datadog like it was a luxury car lease. Every month, more features, more bills. Switching to Atatus gave us the same visibility at a price we could actually justify to leadership. Onboarding took an afternoon.
Lalit
VP Engineering· Zykrr
Reduction in monthly observability spend after switching from Datadog
Time to full stack coverage including APM, logs, infra and RUM configured
Faster Mean time to detect incidents post-migration
Questions buyers ask before switching from Datadog
We've spoken with 150+ teams who evaluated Atatus alongside Datadog. Here are the questions that come up every time and we answered honestly.
Both platforms provide full-stack observability including APM, infrastructure monitoring, logs, and browser monitoring. The core difference is in pricing model and complexity. Datadog charges separately for each signal type includes APM hosts, log ingestion, RUM sessions, custom metrics, making total cost hard to predict. Atatus bundles all signal types in flat per-host plans so your bill is predictable. Datadog has an advantage at extreme scale (1,000+ services) where its ML tooling and integration depth provides more value. For most teams under that threshold, Atatus delivers equivalent visibility at a fraction of the cost.
No. We provide a migration guide and onboarding support to export your Datadog dashboards, alert configurations, and monitor definitions. For historical metrics, we can run both platforms in parallel for your selected transition period (typically 7–14 days) so your trend charts have continuity. Our team will work with you directly to ensure no visibility gaps during the switch.
For most teams, no. If you're already using OpenTelemetry collectors, you can point them at Atatus with a single endpoint configuration change. If you're using Datadog's proprietary agents, our migration guide provides a side-by-side replacement for each language. Most teams complete the agent migration in under a day without touching application code.
Teams switching from Datadog report savings of 40–65% on average. The gap grows as you scale: Datadog's multi-dimensional model means every growth vector (more hosts, more logs, more users, more custom metrics) hits a separate billing dimension simultaneously. Atatus per-host pricing means growth in logs, RUM sessions, or custom metrics doesn't change your bill. The savings are most dramatic for teams with high log volumes or large user bases generating significant RUM traffic.
Yes. Atatus is SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR compliant. EU data residency is available on Business plans and above for teams with data sovereignty requirements. We're happy to provide our security documentation and compliance reports during your evaluation.
Yes. Atatus supports Kubernetes monitoring including cluster, namespace, pod, and container-level metrics. We provide a Helm chart for deployment and support cert-manager and HashiCorp Vault for policy-compliant certificate issuance in Kubernetes environments. Container-level monitoring is included in all plans with no separate per-container billing.
Every migration gets a dedicated onboarding session with our engineering team. We'll review your current Datadog setup, help configure Atatus agents and dashboards, and validate coverage before you cancel Datadog. For Business plans and above, you get a named technical contact throughout the process. Migration support is free, no professional services fees.
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