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Match monitoring depth to workload needs with Infrastructure Basic
Datadog introduced Infrastructure Basic, a lower-cost monitoring tier designed for non-critical hosts that need core system metrics without full-stack observability.
What: Infrastructure Basic collects CPU, memory, disk, and process status for back-office or staging workloads using the standard Datadog Agent. It can be mixed with Pro or Enterprise tiers in the same organization and supports integration with incident management tools like ServiceNow and PagerDuty.
Why it matters: This move helps Datadog capture budget from secondary, non-production workloads that teams previously left unmonitored or managed with separate, cheaper tools to avoid premium observability pricing.
Takeaway: Contact your Datadog account team if you want to deploy the Agent in Basic mode for your non-critical infrastructure.
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Datadog describes Infrastructure Basic, a lightweight tier that collects core host metrics and selected process status for lower-priority workloads. It uses the same Agent in basic mode and can run alongside Pro or Enterprise tiers in one organization.
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