Checkmate joins in if you also want to know from the outside whether your services respond.
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Beszel instead of Datadog
For a handful of servers, less will do: CPU, memory, disk and network over time, containers per machine and alerts on thresholds. On your own instance, with no price per host.
about €1.67 / month All the pricing details
What you get out of it
A small agent per machine, hardly any load- No price per host or metric
- Metrics and alerts stay in your instance
Datadog and Podless
| Datadog and Podless | Datadog | On Podless |
|---|---|---|
| Where the data lives | DatadogOn the provider’s servers | On PodlessIn your own instance in the EU |
| Source code | DatadogNot open to read | On PodlessOpen, you can read what runs |
| Ads and profiling | DatadogPer the provider’s terms | On PodlessNone |
| Your own domain | DatadogUsually not offered | On PodlessIncluded, certificate too |
| Getting out again | DatadogAs far as the provider allows | On PodlessSFTP, database, backups to your storage |
| If it gets shut down | DatadogYou have to move | On PodlessYou decide when you leave |
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