Escape the Datadog Bill
You’re paying too much for monitoring. We can fix that.
If you’re a small team running Datadog, you know the feeling:
- Your bill went from $200/mo to $800/mo and you’re not sure why
- You’re afraid to add new hosts because of per-host pricing
- Custom metrics cost extra. Log volume costs extra. APM costs extra. Everything costs extra.
- Your free startup year ended and the real bill arrived
You’re not alone. This is the Datadog trap, and thousands of teams are stuck in it.
AgentPulse: Auto-Remediation Without the Bill Shock
| Datadog | AgentPulse | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 servers, infra + APM + logs | $300-500+/mo | C$99/mo founding Pro |
| Auto-remediation | Bits AI SRE ($12/host/mo extra) | Included in Pro |
| Pricing model | Per-host + per-GB + per-custom-metric | Simple per-plan |
| Bill predictability | 🔴 Unpredictable | 🟢 Fixed monthly |
| Setup time | Hours to days | Paid beta onboarding |
| Sales call required | For most features | Never |
What You Get with AgentPulse
For C$99/month founding Pro (up to 5 servers when fleet ships):
- ✅ Continuous monitoring (disk, services, memory, runaway processes)
- ✅ Auto-remediation — free disk space, restart services, flag runaway processes for one-command approval
- ✅ Verify-or-escalate — every fix is simulated, safety-gated, and re-measured after it runs
- ✅ Baseline learning — statistical anomaly detection tuned to your server’s normal
- ✅ Webhook alerts — wire into Slack, Discord, PagerDuty, or anything that accepts HTTP
- 🟡 Fleet and incident console source — bounded heartbeat evidence without remote shell access; public deployment pending
- 🔜 Native Telegram alerts and SSH brute-force blocking remain on the roadmap
The same feature set on Datadog? $300-500+/month.
How to Switch
- Join the paid beta for AgentPulse
- Install the agent with guided first-server setup
- Configure remediation policies — auto-fix, ask-first, or alert-only per action
- Turn off Datadog when you’re ready
During the controlled beta, monitoring begins only after guided installation and verification. Public packaging is not yet released.
“But I Need APM/Logs/Traces”
If you need full APM with distributed tracing and log correlation, Datadog is genuinely better for that use case. We’re not trying to be everything.
AgentPulse is built for teams that want their servers to heal themselves without enterprise pricing. If your #1 pain is “I keep getting paged for the same fixable problems,” that’s our sweet spot.
Ready to Save?
Founding Pro: C$99/mo for up to 5 servers when fleet ships. No per-GB billing. No surprise charges. No sales calls.