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Pain Points

Why Teams Leave Datadog (Tools Only)

Datadog shows you the fire. CloudLink puts it out — and fixes the architecture so it does not return.

Alerts without owners

Monitors fire at 3am with no senior engineer accountable. CloudLink owns on-call end-to-end.

Bill shock

Cardinality and APM can explode cost. We tune Datadog (or Prometheus) for signal-per-dollar.

No remediation

Dashboards do not patch Kubernetes or fix RDS. CloudLink remediates production.

Tool sprawl

Teams buy tools then still need retainers. We unify ops + tooling.

Multi-Cloud

Deploy on Any Cloud. We Manage It All.

CloudLink is cloud-agnostic. Whether you're on AWS, Azure, or GCP — our engineers are certified across all three major providers.

AWS
Amazon Web Services
EKS, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront & 200+ services
Az
Microsoft Azure
AKS, Cosmos DB, Functions & 600+ services
G
Google Cloud
GKE, BigQuery, Cloud Run & Vertex AI
Certified across all 3 clouds
Unified Terraform management
Cross-cloud cost optimization
Features

Feature-by-Feature Comparison

Comprehensive comparison across infrastructure, support, security, and cost management

FeatureCloudLinkDatadog (Tools Only)
24/7 human on-call
15-min CRITICAL SLA
Observability stack setup
Incident remediation
FinOps on cloud + APMPartial
Multi-cloud ops
Pricing

Total Cost of Ownership

Monthly cost comparison including all hidden fees, tools, and engineering hours

CloudLink
All-inclusive retainer
Flat Monthly Retainer$3,500
Observability platform$400
2 items included in retainer
Total$3,900/mo
D
Datadog (Tools Only)
Pay per item + engineering
Observability platform$2,500
On-call engineering$8,000
Tooling admin time$1,500
Total$12,000/mo
$8,100/mo saved
That's 68% less than Datadog (Tools Only) — $97,200 saved annually

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Migration

Migration Timeline

Our engineers handle the entire migration from Datadog (Tools Only). Zero downtime guaranteed.

Week 1
Monitor quality + cost audit
Week 1
On-call runbooks & ownership
Ongoing
Retainer + continuous tuning
Zero-downtime migration
Full security audit included
Money-back guarantee
PN

"Datadog told us everything was on fire. CloudLink stopped the fire and cut our observability bill 40%."

Priya N.
Head of Platform, Fintech

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SOC2 Certified
15-Min SLA
99.99% Uptime
4.9/5 on Clutch
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Focused Service Paths
B2B
Cloud Operations Focus
Clear
Scope Before Delivery
Written
Technical Next Steps
Start with a scoped technical conversation. We document the current state, constraints, and next step before recommending work.
CloudLink delivery approach
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Evidence-led reviewScope confirmed firstTechnical next steps
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