Datadog alternatives for Indian mid-market (cost-aware)

Ask ten Indian Series B SaaS CTOs what they pay Datadog per month, and eight of them will sigh before answering. The median honest number is ₹10.6 lakh/month (OneUptime's 2024 survey of 140 Indian SaaS companies). The top quartile pays above ₹22 lakh. The bottom quartile, typically Series A with a Starter plan, sits around ₹3 lakh — and climbs fast. That is a line item on the P&L that nobody budgets for at incorporation, that scales super-linearly with traffic, and that most Indian CFOs cann