Datadog Expertise

Governance & Cost Optimization

Uplevel your observability and increase the value you get from Datadog

Health Audits

Now that you’re a Datadog user, it’s time to get the most out of your investment. RapDev Health Audits help ensure that your observability spend is efficient and strategic.

Usage & Billing Reporting

With RapDev’s free Managed Datadog Reports, you’ll get instant alerts for overages and actionable insights to improve cost efficiency. 

Governance

RapDev’s Managed Datadog Governance report continuously shows you the hygiene and compliance of your environment.

Custom Metrics Audit

RapDev helps you identify your custom metrics usage and actionable recommendations on how to remediate unused metrics and cost bloat.

Logging & Tagging Strategy

With in-depth technical reviews and gap analysis, RapDev provides you with strategies and use cases customized to your environment.

Cost Monitoring & Control

Optimize spend without reducing visibility. RapDev’s expert cost monitoring and control services help businesses optimize their Datadog spending while ensuring robust performance and reliability.

Value Optimization

We analyze your Datadog environment to identify underutilized, redundant, or excessive resources. Our team helps implement best practices to optimize data ingestion, log retention, and metric collection, reducing costs without impacting performance.

Cost Visibility & Monitoring

Gain full transparency into your Datadog expenses with our real-time cost tracking. We provide insights into usage patterns, billing trends, and unexpected cost spikes to help you stay ahead of your budget.

Custom Pricing Strategies

We work with you to develop a tailored pricing strategy that aligns with your business needs. Whether it's leveraging Datadog’s volume discounts, committing to reserved capacity, or optimizing log and trace retention policies, we ensure you get the best value.

Tagging Strategy

A sound tagging strategy is key to the success of any cloud transformation. We design scalable tagging frameworks aligned to engineering workflows and business reporting needs.

Tagging Audit & Standardization

RapDev deep dives into your environment to help you see what tags you’re using, what’s working, and what’s not, and shows you how to standardize tags as mandatory, business, technical, or optional.

Tagging Automation

Manually creating tags is one of the biggest mistakes we see customers make in their journey onto the cloud. RapDev helps make your cloud journey infinitely more scalable by creating templates and automating tag creation.

Log Strategy

A comprehensive log strategy within Datadog is essential for optimizing observability, performance, and cost efficiency. RapDev designs structured logging strategies that balance visibility, retention, and cost control.

Tiered Log Storage

Datadog offers tiered log storage options, allowing you to store frequently accessed logs on faster, more expensive storage, while archiving less frequently accessed logs on cheaper storage.

Custom Retention Policies

You can define custom retention policies to automatically delete logs that are no longer needed, freeing up valuable storage space.

Intelligent Indexing & Compression

Datadog's indexing and compression techniques can significantly reduce the storage footprint of your log data, leading to cost savings.

Correlate Logs with Metrics & Traces

By correlating log data with metrics and traces, you can gain deeper insights into the performance and behavior of your applications. This can help you identify and resolve issues faster, and optimize your applications for maximum efficiency.

Accelerate time to value and maximize your observability ROI

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Deployed Agents

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US-Based Engineers

"RapDev just comes in and becomes a part of the team. RapDev’s implementation has helped make troubleshooting and getting to the bottom of incidents much, much faster."

Alex Sullivan | SVP of IT at oneZero

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