Datadog is a popular cloud-native application performance monitoring tool that measures system health and status based on telemetry data, including machine-generated logs. However, as organizations scale, they face challenges such as log retention schedules, data transformation and rehydration processes, and cost. These challenges can hinder the team's ability to generate insights, limit their ability to achieve regulatory compliance and legal requirements, and require workarounds that are not ideal. To overcome these challenges, Datadog users can consider using alternative solutions like ChaosSearch, which offers unlimited data retention at a starting price of $0.30/GB, significant discounts at scale, and faster time to insights by analyzing data in place without processes like data pipelines and rehydration. By combining Datadog with ChaosSearch, organizations can achieve best-in-class monitoring and a deeper understanding of their systems to drive business growth.