Optimize Before You Observe with Active Telemetry
Cut Datadog costs by up to 70% while accelerating incident resolution. Mezmo's intelligent pre-processing layer filters, transforms, and routes your telemetry data before it hits Datadog—giving you lower costs, faster insights, and fewer surprises.
The Datadog Challenge: Great Insights, Growing Costs
While Datadog excels at analysis and visualization, its cost structure and limited preprocessing capabilities create significant challenges for modern engineering teams.
The Reality: Teams Are Forced to Choose Between Visibility and Budget
📊 Up to 80% of ingested data provides little to no business value
📊 MTTR increases by 30-60% due to data noise and delays
📊 MTTR increases by 30-60% due to data noise and delays
Runaway Datadog Costs
Log ingestion, indexing, and retention costs are exploding. You're paying to store low-value or unused data with limited cost control.
Slow Incident Resolution
Datadog's ingestion delays and UI lag slow down triage. Teams struggle to isolate root causes in massive volumes of noisy data.
Unpredictable Growth Impact
Small development changes, such as adding tags or log statements, can create huge, unforeseen financial impacts and force teams to choose between visibility and budget.
Noisy, Redundant Telemetry
Datadog doesn't provide enough control over verbose logs and high-cardinality metrics that inflate storage costs and create analysis paralysis.
Mezmo + Datadog Better Together
Mezmo sits as an intelligent pre-processing layer in front of Datadog, giving you the power to filter, transform, and route telemetry data before it incurs costs and complexity.
Volume Control Without Sacrificing Fidelity
Keep 100% visibility through Live Tail and buffer replay while only sending high-value data to Datadog for storage and indexing.
Accelerate Resolution
Mezmo makes the right data available in real time—before it hits Datadog—enabling faster root cause analysis and improved responsiveness.
Cost-Effective Preprocessing
Use Mezmo for intelligent data processing and routing, then leverage Datadog for what it does best—analysis and visualization.
Cut Costs, Keep Visibility
Reduce cost without losing insight by preprocessing telemetry with Mezmo—filter, sample, and aggregate data before it reaches Datadog.
Before vs. After Mezmo: Real Impact on Your Operations
See the measurable transformation teams experience when they implement
Mezmo as their intelligent pre-processing layer for Datadog.
Mezmo as their intelligent pre-processing layer for Datadog.
Operational Aspect
Before Mezmo
After Mezmo
Improvement
Operational Aspect
Monthly Observability Costs
Consumption & billing
Before Mezmo
Unpredictable & Rising
Bills grow 2-3x faster than usage
After Mezmo
Controlled & Predictable
Intelligent cost management
Improvement
30-50%
Cost Reduction
Operational Aspect
Time to Troubleshoot
Mean time to resolution (MTTR)
Before Mezmo
Slow & Frustrating
Ingest delays and UI lag
After Mezmo
Fast & Efficient
Real-time Live Tail debugging
Improvement
40-50%
Faster MTTR
Operational Aspect
Data Quality
Signal-to-noise ratio
Before Mezmo
Noisy & Overwhelming
Davis AI drowning in verbose logs
After Mezmo
Clean & Actionable
High-value signals only
Improvement
3.5x
Signal-to-noise ratio
Operational Aspect
Developer Experience
Productivity & confidence
Before Mezmo
Anxious & Constrained
Hesitant to add logs/metrics due to cost fears
After Mezmo
Confident & Empowered
Confident instrumentation with cost controls
Improvement
100%
Peace of Mind
Operational Aspect
Platform Team Load
Operational overhead
Before Mezmo
Constantly Fighting Fires
Manual data cleanup & cost control
After Mezmo
Strategic & Proactive
Automated optimization
Improvement
75%
Less Manual Work
Key Capabilities for Datadog Users
Powerful pre-processing capabilities that transform your telemetry data before it reaches Datadog, delivering both cost savings and operational improvements.
Metric Cardinality Reduction
Pre-aggregate high-cardinality metrics to reduce data bloat. Prevent cost explosions by filtering and remapping metric dimensions before they hit Datadog.
⚡ Control metric explosion
Trace Sampling & Filtering
Send only high-value traces to Datadog while preserving trace fidelity. Eliminate trace noise from healthy services while guaranteeing 100% capture of critical error traces.
⚡ Reduce trace costs by 60-80%
Responsive Pipelines
Auto-adjust routing and filtering based on conditions with a 4-hour buffer. Automatically highlight anomalies and route alerts during critical events.
⚡ Risk-free optimization
Live Tail
Stream logs instantly, independent of Datadog indexing. Troubleshoot in real-time by viewing raw log streams before they hit any platform, bypassing ingestion delays entirely.
⚡ Zero-delay incident response
Data Aggregation
Combine logs or metrics at the edge for simplified, summarized insights. Turn thousands of high-volume events into meaningful aggregates.
⚡ Reduce volume by 70%+
Data Enrichment
Add context and structure to logs before they reach Datadog. Enrich data with metadata and transform unstructured logs into searchable, actionable insights.
⚡ Better data quality
Real Results from Real Teams
See how teams like yours are winning with Mezmo
AuditBoard
Enterprise SaaS
Challenge
Datadog costs growing 300% year-over-year with limited visibility into spending
Solution
Implemented Mezmo pipelines to filter and aggregate logs before Datadog ingestion
Results
✔️ 52% reduction in Datadog costs
✔️ 40% faster incident resolution
✔️ 90% reduction in noisy alerts
Netlink Voice
Telecommunications
Challenge
Overwhelming telemetry data volume from network infrastructure
Solution
Implemented Mezmo pipelines to filter and aggregate logs before Used Mezmo to filter and parse data, indexing only necessary fields
Results
✔️ 50% reduction in overall telemetry data
✔️ Eliminated redundant data storage
✔️ Improved query performance by 3x
Common Questions About Mezmo + Datadog
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with your existing Datadog environment.
with your existing Datadog environment.
How does Mezmo integrate with our existing Datadog setup?
WIll using Mezmo affect our Datadog dashboards and alerts?
How much can we realistically save on our Datadog costs?
What happens if we need to access the filtered-out data for troubleshooting?
How quickly can we implement Mezmo with our Datadog environment
Does Mezmo add latency or create a single point of failure?
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