

Custom events are averaged across your entire account, not just on a per-host basis.

How many events are included per host? Datadog offers 500 custom events for every host monitored with infrastructure monitoring for pro plan, or 1000 for enterprise plan. This way, you can correlate any of these events with performance metrics, create monitors for alerting and enrich events at intake with processing pipelines to be queried alongside other standard events.

What is a custom event? Datadog allows you to send custom events coming from your own custom applications such as custom-built deployment tools or scheduled maintenance jobs. Many customers find these metrics invaluable, especially when combined with infrastructure metrics. Example uses: monitoring ad revenue, the rate at which shopping carts are abandoned, or the health of an in-game economy. You can send any and all of your organization’s important metrics to Datadog for graphing, alerting, correlation, anomaly detection and more. What is a custom metric? Datadog was designed to allow you to monitor your own custom applications and business metrics-not just your infrastructure. In addition, you can purchase prepaid containers at $1 per container per month. Additional containers will be billed at $0.002 per container per hour. Depending on your plan, you can monitor 5 or 10 containers free for each host license.

From there it can collect metrics from its neighboring containers and from the host itself. How do I monitor containers? The Datadog Agent runs in a container alongside any number of other containers on a host. It could be a server, VM, node (in the case of Kubernetes) or App Service Plan instance (in the case of Azure App Services). How do you define a host? A host is any physical or virtual OS instance that you monitor with Datadog.
