Greenfield Datadog rollouts
We design the agent topology, tag schema, and team layout from day one — so the platform stays usable as your org grows past the first 50 hosts.
Datadog Consultants
Datadogthat earns its line item
We help engineering teams get the value out of Datadog they were promised — clean dashboards, signal-rich alerts, and a bill that scales with your business, not your log volume.
What we do
Cost optimisation and rescue work
Runaway custom metric bills, log indexing surprises, and APM ingestion overruns. We profile the spend, identify the high-leverage cuts, and deliver a tagged-and-tracked usage budget.
Migration from open-source stacks
Coming from Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK? We map your existing dashboards, alerts, and SLOs onto Datadog primitives without losing institutional knowledge in the move.
Alerting and on-call hygiene
SLO-aligned monitors, deduplicated pages, and runbook-linked alerts. The result is fewer incidents reaching humans, and faster recovery when they do.
Why teams hire a Datadog consultant
Datadog is one of the most capable observability platforms on the market — and one of the easiest to overspend on. The default settings are designed for breadth, not for fit. A team that turns on every integration “just in case” can end up paying for telemetry nobody reads, while critical signals quietly drown in noise.
As an independent Datadog consultancy, we have helped engineering teams across the Netherlands and Europe clean up their deployments after the initial rollout, after a migration from another vendor, and after a bill spike that triggered a CFO conversation. The work starts with a short audit and ends with a stack that does more with less — fewer custom metrics, less noise, faster MTTR, and a cost line the platform team can defend.
What an engagement looks like
A Datadog cost audit runs two to three weeks. We embed with your platform team, profile the existing telemetry pipeline (metrics, logs, APM, RUM), benchmark against your SLOs and reliability targets, and deliver a written remediation plan with prioritised changes. From there we either execute the plan alongside your team or hand it over with enough context to ship it independently.
For greenfield rollouts, the timeline is four to six weeks: agent topology, tag taxonomy, dashboard library, alert framework, and rollout playbook — delivered as a working baseline your team can extend.
Frequently asked
- Are you a Datadog reseller or partner?
- No. We earn no commission on your Datadog spend, so our advice is genuinely vendor-neutral.
- Do you work on a fixed contract or ongoing basis?
- Both. Engagements typically start as a fixed-scope audit or implementation, and some grow into an ongoing arrangement.
- Can you help with ballooning Datadog costs?
- Yes. Our cost audits typically uncover 25-40% of recoverable spend without losing observability coverage.
- Do you work with teams outside the Netherlands?
- Yes. We work with teams remotely across Europe.
- What is your availability?
- Typically within one to two weeks.