A company pays $5,000/month for DataDog.
And $2,000/month for CloudWatch.
At the same time. Their entire infrastructure runs on AWS.
I asked: why both?
“We’re used to it.”
Five years ago they connected DataDog - for flexibility. Or because they were planning an expansion that never happened. Everyone was fine with it.
A few years ago the company went through bankruptcy - sold half the business to survive. They made it through, rebuilt. DataDog stayed.
$7,000 a month on monitoring. Out of habit.
Money leaving because nobody asked the question.