{"head":{"title":"Observability Pricing Compared: Hosts and Logs | OceanLab","description":"Observability prices per host and per GB of logs from Datadog, Grafana Cloud and New Relic, each read off the vendor's own pricing page. Price a month.","canonical":"https://oceanlab.in/pricing/categories/observability"},"asOf":"2026-10-25","category":"observability","vendors":[{"id":"datadog","name":"Datadog","product":"Datadog infrastructure and log monitoring","categories":["observability"],"source":"https://www.datadoghq.com/pricing/list/","checkedAt":"2026-10-25","assumptions":"USD, US site (US1/US3/US5). Prices from the full list-price table. Annual = billed annually; on-demand = billed on-demand (month-to-month shows the same $18).","plans":[],"meters":[{"id":"infra-pro-annual","kind":"host-month","label":"Infrastructure Pro, billed annually","unit":"host-month","per":1,"price":15,"included":0,"plan":null,"note":"Columns: billed annually / month-to-month / on-demand.","source":"https://www.datadoghq.com/pricing/list/"},{"id":"infra-pro-ondemand","kind":"host-month","label":"Infrastructure Pro, on-demand","unit":"host-month","per":1,"price":18,"included":0,"plan":null,"note":"Columns: billed annually / month-to-month / on-demand.","source":"https://www.datadoghq.com/pricing/list/"},{"id":"logs-ingest","kind":"log-gb","label":"Log Management ingestion","unit":"GB","per":1,"price":0.1,"included":0,"plan":null,"note":"Ingestion only; indexing is billed separately per 1M log events.","source":"https://www.datadoghq.com/pricing/list/"},{"id":"logs-indexed-3d","kind":"other","label":"Indexed log events, 3-day retention (billed annually)","unit":"1M log events","per":1,"price":1.06,"included":0,"plan":null,"note":"$1.06 annual / $1.27 month-to-month / $1.59 on-demand per 1M events.","source":"https://www.datadoghq.com/pricing/list/"}],"notes":[{"title":"Three billing modes","detail":"Each product lists a billed-annually, month-to-month and on-demand price; annual is cheapest."},{"title":"Logs billed twice","detail":"Logs are charged per GB ingested and again per million log events indexed, by retention."}],"unverified":[]},{"id":"grafana","name":"Grafana Labs","product":"Grafana Cloud","categories":["observability"],"source":"https://grafana.com/pricing/","checkedAt":"2026-10-25","assumptions":"USD, Grafana Cloud self-serve, monthly. Usage prices are \"starts at\" rates with automatic volume discounts.","plans":[{"id":"free","name":"Free","monthly":0,"summary":"10k metrics series, 50 GB logs, 14-day retention","source":"https://grafana.com/pricing/"},{"id":"pro","name":"Pro","monthly":19,"summary":"Platform fee plus usage; 13 months metrics retention, 30 days logs","source":"https://grafana.com/pricing/"},{"id":"enterprise","name":"Enterprise","monthly":null,"summary":"Starts at $25,000 a year spend commit","source":"https://grafana.com/pricing/"}],"meters":[{"id":"logs-write","kind":"log-gb","label":"Logs written (beyond 50 GB on Pro)","unit":"GB","per":1,"price":0.4,"included":50,"plan":"pro","note":"Write portion only. Process ($0.05/GB) and Retain ($0.10/GB) are charged on top.","source":"https://grafana.com/pricing/"},{"id":"logs-process","kind":"other","label":"Logs processed","unit":"GB","per":1,"price":0.05,"included":0,"plan":"pro","source":"https://grafana.com/pricing/"},{"id":"logs-retain","kind":"other","label":"Logs retained","unit":"GB","per":1,"price":0.1,"included":0,"plan":"pro","source":"https://grafana.com/pricing/"},{"id":"metrics-series","kind":"other","label":"Metrics active series (beyond 10k on Pro)","unit":"1k series","per":1,"price":6.5,"included":10,"plan":"pro","note":"Included is 10 (x1k series), i.e. 10k active series.","source":"https://grafana.com/pricing/"}],"notes":[{"title":"Free tier","detail":"Free includes 10k active metrics series and 50 GB logs ingested a month, 14-day retention."},{"title":"Pro platform fee","detail":"Pro is $19/month and includes the free allowances, then pay as you go."},{"title":"Logs split three ways","detail":"Logs are priced separately for process, write and retain, so the all-in rate is the sum."}],"unverified":["Volume-discount tiers above the starting rates (calculator only)."]},{"id":"new-relic","name":"New Relic","product":"New Relic observability","categories":["observability"],"source":"https://newrelic.com/pricing","checkedAt":"2026-10-25","assumptions":"USD, monthly. Standard/Pro edition, original data option unless noted.","plans":[{"id":"free","name":"Free","monthly":0,"summary":"100 GB data ingest a month, one free full platform user","source":"https://newrelic.com/pricing"},{"id":"enterprise","name":"Enterprise","monthly":null,"summary":"Contact sales","source":"https://newrelic.com/pricing"}],"meters":[{"id":"ingest-original","kind":"log-gb","label":"Data ingest beyond 100 GB (original data)","unit":"GB","per":1,"price":0.4,"included":100,"plan":null,"source":"https://newrelic.com/pricing"},{"id":"ingest-dataplus","kind":"log-gb","label":"Data ingest beyond 100 GB (Data Plus)","unit":"GB","per":1,"price":0.6,"included":100,"plan":null,"source":"https://newrelic.com/pricing"},{"id":"core-user","kind":"other","label":"Core user","unit":"user-month","per":1,"price":49,"included":0,"plan":null,"source":"https://newrelic.com/pricing"},{"id":"full-user-standard-first","kind":"other","label":"Full platform user, Standard, first user","unit":"user-month","per":1,"price":10,"included":0,"plan":null,"source":"https://newrelic.com/pricing"},{"id":"full-user-standard-additional","kind":"other","label":"Full platform user, Standard, additional (max 5)","unit":"user-month","per":1,"price":99,"included":0,"plan":null,"source":"https://newrelic.com/pricing"},{"id":"full-user-pro-monthly","kind":"other","label":"Full platform user, Pro, monthly pay as you go","unit":"user-month","per":1,"price":418.8,"included":0,"plan":null,"note":"$349/user with an annual commitment.","source":"https://newrelic.com/pricing"}],"notes":[{"title":"Free data","detail":"The first 100 GB ingested each month is free; beyond that $0.40/GB, or $0.60/GB on Data Plus."},{"title":"Users","detail":"Basic users are free. Core users are $49. Full platform users depend on edition."},{"title":"EU data","detail":"Storing data in the EU data center adds $0.05/GB per month."}],"unverified":["Compute capacity unit (CCU) prices not captured."]}],"vendorPages":["aws","azure","cloudflare","digitalocean","firebase","fly-io","google-cloud","mongodb-atlas","neon","netlify","planetscale","render","supabase","vercel","algolia","google-maps","mapbox","paddle","plaid","postmark","resend","sendgrid","stripe","twilio"],"leftOut":[],"siblings":[{"label":"CDN pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/cdn","detail":"Priced on 1 TB of CDN traffic and 10M requests a month."},{"label":"Cloud hosting pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/cloud-hosting","detail":"Priced on one 2 vCPU / 4 GB server running all month, with 200 GB of egress."},{"label":"Database pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/databases","detail":"Priced on the smallest paid always-on database with 20 GB of storage."},{"label":"Edge functions pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/edge-functions","detail":"Priced on 20M edge function requests a month."},{"label":"Object storage pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/object-storage","detail":"Priced on 500 GB stored, 1 TB downloaded and 1M writes a month."},{"label":"Serverless functions pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/serverless","detail":"Priced on 10M invocations and 1M GB-seconds a month."},{"label":"Product analytics pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/analytics","detail":"Priced on 5M events a month."},{"label":"Auth pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/auth","detail":"Priced on 20,000 monthly active users."},{"label":"Banking data API pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/banking-data","detail":"Priced on 500 verified bank accounts a month."},{"label":"Email API pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/email-api","detail":"Priced on 100,000 emails a month."},{"label":"Error monitoring pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/error-monitoring","detail":"Priced on 100,000 errors a month."},{"label":"KYC and identity verification pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/kyc-identity","detail":"Priced on 500 identity verifications a month."},{"label":"Maps API pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/maps","detail":"Priced on 100,000 web map loads and 50,000 geocodes a month."},{"label":"Payments pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/payments","detail":"Priced on 1,000 card payments of $50 a month."},{"label":"Search API pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/search-api","detail":"Priced on 100,000 searches a month."},{"label":"SMS API pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/sms","detail":"Priced on 10,000 SMS to US numbers a month."}],"faqs":[{"question":"Which observability vendor is cheapest?","answer":"Only Datadog publishes enough rates to price 10 hosts and 200 GB of logs a month: about $170.00 a month on list prices, checked 2026-10-25. The others need a quote."},{"question":"How is the estimate worked out?","answer":"Each vendor is priced on its cheapest plan that lists a rate for every line of the workload: the plan fee plus each usage line, after any free or included amount. A plan's monthly minimum counts as a floor. Volume tiers are applied in order. Taxes, discounts and committed-use deals are left out."},{"question":"How current are these prices?","answer":"Every rate was read off the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-10-25 and links to it. Prices change often: check the vendor's page before you commit, and tell us if a number here is out of date."}]}