### Comment:
Can run free software like Prometheus / Graphite / Grafana and get about 85% of the features most people want from datadog.  Just have to set it up and run it yourself - orders of magnitude cheaper for basic use cases.

### REPLY:
Mid-Large companies don’t like that software because it’s free and open source (and for the most part can’t be scaled easily). It is mind blowing how much a company would pay for a product just to have support on it (something that Datadog offers)

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