Datadog Static Cost Audit — for Staff engineers + SRE + platform leads + FinOps at orgs spending >$5K/mo on Datadog.
Premium-tier $149 static audit of your repo's StatsD calls + datadog.yaml + Terraform datadog_* resources. 9 deterministic patterns: cardinality bombs (user_id/email/trace_id tags), high-arity distributions, logs_enabled without exclusion filters, debug log_level in prod, APM sample rate 1.0, synthetic test cadence too frequent, multi-location bloat, DD_TAGS with pod_name, missing metric metadata. Recurring Datadog billing savings verifiable in Datadog Plan & Usage next cycle. Industry consensus: 20-30% immediate savings. OpenAI projected ~$170M/yr Datadog spend (Pragmatic Engineer), $65M/quarter crypto customer (HN #35837330), CBTW cut $112K/yr.
https://store-v2-khaki.vercel.app/datadog-cost-audit.html
Sample report: https://store-v2-khaki.vercel.app/sample-datadog-cost-audit-report.html
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