Every observability vendor says its tooling is efficient. Very few publish a number you can check yourself. That's a problem for anyone choosing between the Datadog Agent and the OpenTelemetry Collect
Your AWS infrastructure goes through pull requests, code review and automated checks. Your Datadog monitors probably don't. For many teams, monitoring is the last manual step in an otherwise automated
Your Datadog invoice went up again. Nobody launched anything dramatic, and no team reported a big change. The bill just grew, the way it did last quarter and the quarter before. That's normal, and it'
