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How to Sign Up for Datadog?

Problem​

You’ve been asked to sign up for DataDog, but you're not quite sure which plans and features you need.

Solution​

Review the https://www.datadoghq.com/pricing/

tip

We recommend the Enterprise Plan if you will need Custom Roles, otherwise the Pro Plan should suffice.

After signing up, if you require child organizations, make sure to request it be enabled on your account by your Datadog Account Manager. https://docs.datadoghq.com/account_management/multi_organization/ (see Decide on How to Restrict Access to Metrics and Logs in Datadog)

Pricing Gotchas​

  • Commit to a certain number of hosts per month for cheaper pricing

  • If using spot instances, you may be charged for multiple hosts. For instance, you may use a spot instance for an EKS node, the node is replaced with another spot instance, and Datadog now charges for 2 hosts instead of 1 host for that month.

Enterprise Plan​

Many features are restricted to Enterprise Plans.

caution

Custom Roles are an enterprise only feature. https://docs.datadoghq.com/account_management/rbac/?tab=datadogapplication#custom-roles

  • Custom Roles

  • Watchdog: Automated insights

  • Correlations

  • Anomaly Detection

  • Forecast Monitoring

  • Live Processes

  • Advanced Administrative Tools

Pro Plan​

The Pro Plan is the minimum acceptable plan that adds Alerts, Container Monitoring, SAML and Custom Metrics.

  • Unlimited Alerts

  • Unlimited Container Monitoring

  • 10 per host included

  • 20 per host included. Customizable.

  • Custom Metrics

  • Single Sign-On with SAML

  • Outlier Detection