OpenObserve vs Datadog: managing log cost at scale

2026-04-08

Datadog log costs rise fast as your organization scales. OpenObserve is an open-source alternative with ~18.5k GitHub stars and 6k+ deployments, and migrations can take less than an hour. Start a 14-day free trial to test it yourself, or explore the OpenObserve vs Datadog comparison to see how it performs across real workloads.