Overview
Is your Datadog bill skyrocketing? Are alert fatigue and dashboard sprawl out of control? BUILDSTR helps customers reclaim control of their observability destiny by migrating telemetry from Datadog to Amazon CloudWatch, cutting out wasteful duplication, and standardizing on OpenTelemetry instrumentation for consistency and neutrality.
This transition is more than just a cost play; it’s a strategic upgrade to a more integrated, efficient, and focused observability approach. Re-build your observability stack for what your business needs, not what your license allows.
How it works:
- Phase 1 - Prepare & Assess
- 2 weeks
- Datadog Audit
- AWS Infrastructure Validation & Adjustment (as needed)
- Phase 2 - Instrument & Migrate
- Up to 6 months
- Instrument applications with ADOT SDK
- Deploy ADOT Collector via CloudWatch Agent and/or Lambda Layer
- Query language translation
- Dashboard migration
- Alert comparison and migration
- Phase 3 - Validate & Cleanup
- 2-4 weeks
- Test & Validate the new stack
- Documentation & Knowledge Transfer
- Decommission Datadog
- Recommendations for future doin stuff good
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Highlights
- Transition Fast - go live in as little as 6 weeks
- Cut Monitoring Spend - save up to 70%
- Reclaim Control - own your destiny
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BUILDSTR supports customers in a flexible and pragmatic way, tailoring a model that works for the specific situation, budget, and context. Support teams will be accessible by customer-specific communication channels, and BUILDSTR support is always reachable via support@buildstr.com .