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Rajesh Medampudi's employer replaced Datadog

Now: Self-hosted Grafana LGTM stack, running 7 months

$480Ksaved per year, running cost not disclosed

Rajesh Medampudi's team replaced Datadog, and decommissioned CloudWatch, with a self-hosted Grafana stack storing data on S3 after per-GB pricing threatened to grow with log volume. The new stack's cost covers both replacements, so no Datadog-only running cost is shown.

Receipt #02102026-04-01

Rajesh Medampudi's employer

Old billDatadog at 1 TB/day
$40K
NowSelf-hosted Grafana LGTM stack
Not disclosed
Saved per month$40K/mo

Thank you for not renewing

Source

rajesh.medampudi.com

Numbers as reported. How this ledger works

Timeline

  1. Replaced2026-04-01

Stack

grafanamimirlokitempo

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