Monthly price
Datadog$50+ per 1K metrics
Grafana Cloud$19+/month
Umlogger$1/month flat
Datadog charges $50 per 1,000 metrics/mo
Metrics without
the monthly shock.
Track everything that matters — API latency, conversion rates, order counts, cron health — without paying enterprise prices for indie-scale data.
Datadog — custom metrics
$50
per 1,000 metrics / month
✗
Umlogger — everything included
$1
per month, flat. Always.
✓
42-day free trial · No credit card required
How it stacks up
No cherry-picked numbers. Just what you actually get.
| Datadog | Grafana Cloud | Umlogger | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly price | $50+ per 1K metrics | $19+/month | $1/month flat |
| Free trial | 14 days | 14 days | 42 days |
| Setup time | Days | Hours | 5 minutes |
| Surprise overage bills | Yes | Yes | Never |
| Daily email summaries | — | — | ✓ Included |
| Custom alerts | ✓ Extra cost | ✓ Extra cost | ✓ Included |
| Infrastructure to run | Agent required | Collector needed | Nothing |
Built for people who just want it to work
No YAML. No Kubernetes. No consultants.
Flat, predictable pricing
No per-metric charges. No tiered overages. No surprise invoices at the end of the month. $1, always.
Live in 5 minutes
One API key, one HTTP request. Your first metric is charted before you finish your coffee.
Zero infrastructure
No InfluxDB clusters. No Prometheus scrapers. No Grafana servers to babysit. Data in, charts out.
Ready to pay $1/month
instead?
Start your 42-day free trial today. No credit card required. Cancel any time — though at $1/month, you probably won't bother.
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