Monitoring tool price hikes
4 price hikes we tracked on monitoring tools, newest first. Each one has its own page with before and after, sources, and what's cheaper now.
- Datadog raised LLM Observability retention prices up to 4x · Sep 28, 2026
LLM Observability retention add-ons per 10K spans/month rose: 30-day $1.50 to $6.50, 60-day $3 to $8, 90-day $4 to $9. - New Relic ended free core users; they now cost $49/user · Dec 2025
The Free plan went from unlimited basic and core users to unlimited basic users only, and core users on Standard went from $0 to $49/user. Core users are the cheapest type with Errors Inbox access. - New Relic raised data ingest from $0.35 to $0.40 per GB · Oct 2025
Original data ingest beyond the 100 GB free tier rose from $0.35/GB to $0.40/GB (+14.3%); Data Plus from $0.55/GB to $0.60/GB. The 50k-errors reference scenario stays inside the free 100 GB, so it is unaffected. - New Relic raised data ingest from $0.30 to $0.35 per GB · Oct 2024
Data ingest beyond the 100 GB free allowance went from $0.30/GB to $0.35/GB (+16.7%); Data Plus from $0.50/GB to $0.55/GB. The reference scenario is unaffected.