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DataDog "Best Practices" documentation for cost savings #89934

Open jennb33 opened 1 month ago

jennb33 commented 1 month ago

User Story

As the managers and developers of the Platform and the DataDog tool, We need to document the opportunities for cost savings for the DataDog tool, So that users are all familiar with how to prevent unexpected cost increases

Issue Description

Based on the outcomes from the DataDog cost discovery ticket (#89933), this is the ticket to document and create a best practices user guide for DataDog. The goal of the document will be to convey to users how to avoid incurring extra costs, with regard to building with DataDog (for example, the unique queries added significantly to the DataDog bill, and we want to guide users so that cost mistakes aren't made).

Tasks

Success Metrics

That users have been informed on best practices to implement when using DataDog

Acceptance Criteria

Validation

Assignee to add steps to this section. List the actions that need to be taken to confirm this issue is complete. Include any necessary links or context. State the expected outcome.

rmtolmach commented 1 month ago

Document started here: https://vfs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BCP/pages/3356590105/Cost-saving+best+practices+for+Datadog