Reduce Monitoring Costs by Using Standard Metrics Classification
infoThe Temporal Cloud-Datadog integration classifies metrics as standard metrics rather than custom metrics in Datadog, which can significantly reduce monitoring costs compared to custom metrics ingestion.
When using custom Temporal Cloud metrics ingestion methods (such as PromQL-to-Datadog scrapers), organizations incur additional costs for custom metrics. The official integration avoids these costs by classifying metrics as standard.
1. If currently using a custom PromQL-to-Datadog scraper or similar approach for Temporal Cloud metrics, evaluate migration to the official integration. 2. Compare current Datadog billing for custom metrics against the standard metrics classification offered by the integration. 3. Configure the official integration following the documentation to fetch metrics directly from Temporal Cloud's Prometheus endpoints via REST APIs. 4. Monitor Datadog billing after migration to verify cost reduction. 5. Decommission custom scraper infrastructure once the official integration is validated.