Datadog Alternative
Your data, their format
Telemetry lands in a format only Datadog can read, and every dashboard, monitor and saved query is written against a syntax that exists in one product. The longer you stay, the more leaving costs.
A bill you cannot predict
Each signal is priced separately and measured by an accounting only the vendor can see. Send more logs this month and less next month, and the invoice moves under you.
Priced to make you look away
When observability bills by consumption, the rational move mid-incident is to sample traces and drop logs. The data gets cut exactly when it is worth the most.
Nothing to rip out
Use the same Datadog Agent to send telemetry to both Datadog and Gigapipe. No architecture changes required.
No commitment
Run Gigapipe OSS on your own hardware for as long as you need. No trial window, no sales call, nothing to sign.
Your data. Your rules.
Sending the same telemetry twice costs you nothing extra. Full stack observability, without your data being held hostage.
# Verified against gcr.io/datadoghq/agent:7 and Gigapipe on :3100.
dd_url: http://<your-gigapipe-host>:3100
skip_ssl_validation: true
# Agent 7 compresses with zstd by default, which Gigapipe does not
# decode yet. Pin the compressors until it does.
serializer_compressor_kind: zlib
logs_enabled: true
logs_config:
logs_dd_url: <your-gigapipe-host>:3100
logs_no_ssl: true
use_http: true
compression_kind: gzip
# Traces leave over OTLP.
otlp_config:
receiver:
protocols:
grpc:
endpoint: 0.0.0.0:4317POST /api/v2/logsDatadog log intake, accepted unchanged.
POST /api/v2/seriesDatadog metrics intake, accepted unchanged.
POST /v1/tracesOTLP over HTTP, or gRPC on port 4317.
POST /v1development/profilesOTLP profiles, the fourth signal.
Run Gigapipe
Gigapipe runs in whatever topology you already have: VMs, bare metal, Kubernetes, containers. If it can run a Go binary, it can run Gigapipe. We match your architecture instead of imposing one.
Send to both
Keep your Datadog Agent, repoint it at Gigapipe, and compare the two side by side on live traffic.
Rebuild the dashboards
Rebuild them once in Grafana or Perses. Hard work, done a single time, and then they are yours to keep. Gigapipe speaks the industry standards.
Cut over when you are ready
Once the data lines up and you are comfortable, swap to the industry standard tool. No more per-event pricing you cannot estimate. Just a fixed price based on machine specs.