CubeAPM: A Modern Datadog Alternative for Cost, Control, and Scalable Observability

_ Disclaimer : This post was originally published on cubeapm.com _ Organizations globally are quickly adopting cloud, microservices, and distributed systems. All of this generates huge data volumes, and monitoring it can be difficult for teams using legacy monitoring tools. Some common issues are related to high cost, data residency, management complexity, and vendor lock-ins. For example, Datadog is a leader in observability, but it might not suit all teams as its pricing is high and it only supports SaaS deployment, with no self-hosting. To make observability affordable and flexible, teams may start looking for Datadog alternatives, such as CubeAPM. Let’s understand this in detail. How Datadog Became the Industry Default for Observability Datadog is an observability platform that teams can use to monitor their applications’ health and performance. It brings together metrics, logs, traces, application performance monitoring (APM), real user monitoring (RUM), and synthetics in a single