Not out of the box. Grafana + traces (Tempo/Pyroscope) can grow into it. Most teams miss dashboards and uptime first, which this covers. APM is a later add.

Stacks / Monitoring

Medium

Grafana + Checkcle

Metrics, dashboards, and uptime you host. Datadog without the host SKU.

The problem

Datadog prices every host, every APM, every extra product. Grafana OSS plus Prometheus (or Grafana Alloy) covers dashboards; Checkcle covers uptime. You stop buying SKUs.

Replaces

Datadog

Replace Datadog

Estimated SaaS saved

$12,000

per year, small team, before lock-in

Deploy on Railway

Sponsor this stack

Placeholder: Grafana + a metrics backend, and Checkcle for HTTP checks. Volumes for both. This is a second-wave template after Checkcle solo.

The stack

Grafana
OSS dashboards and alerting
Catalog entry →
operacle/checkcle
Go uptime checks
Catalog entry →

Cost table

You stop paying	Typical / year	Self-host instead
Datadog APM + infra (small fleet)	$12,000	Grafana + Checkcle

Agent setup prompt

Replace Datadog with Grafana OSS and Checkcle.

- Grafana + Prometheus or Grafana Alloy for metrics. Checkcle for HTTP/TCP uptime (already a c17 stack).
- Persist both. Import one dashboard. Point c17.io at Checkcle as the first check.
- Do not enable Grafana Cloud unless the operator asks — that is another vendor.

Also as markdown: /stacks/grafana-observability.md

FAQ

Is this full APM?: Not out of the box. Grafana + traces (Tempo/Pyroscope) can grow into it. Most teams miss dashboards and uptime first, which this covers. APM is a later add.