Datadog Consulting & Support for Enterprises

Our Datadog consulting covers rollout and onboarding architecture, cost governance and cardinality control, APM instrumentation strategy, monitor and dashboard-as-code implementation with Terraform, and migration planning in either direction — onto Datadog or off it. Every engagement is staffed by a named senior engineer, not a reseller account manager.

No. AceMQ is not a Datadog reseller and doesn't hold a formal partnership with Datadog. We're senior infrastructure engineers who implement and govern Datadog for enterprise teams as an independent consulting engagement — our recommendations aren't tied to a sales relationship with the vendor.

Custom metric cardinality is almost always the biggest lever — we audit which metrics are generating excessive unique tag combinations and either reduce the tag set or roll them into aggregated views. We also review log indexing volume against what teams actually query, apply exclusion filters to noisy, low-value logs, and tune APM retention filters so you keep the traces that matter without paying to store everything.

Yes. This is a legitimate move for teams whose usage has outgrown SaaS pricing and who have the operational capacity to run Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki themselves. We map your existing monitors and dashboards to the self-hosted equivalent, plan a bridging period so you're not blind during cutover, and help you honestly assess whether the operational overhead is worth the savings before you commit.

Yes. We design instrumentation strategy across your service languages and frameworks, set retention and sampling filters to control ingestion cost, and make sure trace data is actually correlated with logs and metrics through consistent tagging — otherwise APM becomes an expensive dashboard nobody uses during an incident.

A structured audit of custom metric cardinality, log ingestion volume, monitor and dashboard ownership, and instrumentation coverage gaps. We deliver a written report with quantified savings estimates and remediation ranked by cost impact, not a generic best-practices checklist.