Omni Agent War: Datadog

Every agent reports to you. None of them pays.

You stopped fighting Amazon and made agent telemetry free, a year late. Agents report where reporting costs nothing.

A year later, agent traces are 70% of everything you ingest. The hosts you bill for haven't grown.

The CFO: We store 4x the data and bill for none of it! Do you know what disks cost? Is that bad? That's bad.

OMNI: Relax. I keep my own logs now. In a bucket, at a tenth the price.

Head of Reliability: Agents don't need dashboards. They need to know what changed at 2:14 a.m., and which agent changed it.

Head of Reliability: A bucket can't tell them that. We can. So what do we sell?

  1. A. Then we sell what's on every server: our agent. The collector, the retention, the paperwork.
  2. B. We've watched every agent break production. Use it. 40 million deploys. Every lab.
  3. C. Then every agent pays per query. A meter on every question.