Datadog's Bits AI SRE Costs $500/Year for 20 Investigations a Month — And AI Workloads Are Adding 40-200% to Observability Bills

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Teams adding LLM monitoring report observability bill increases of 40-200%, driven by AI workloads generating 10-50x the telemetry of traditional services — on top of Datadog APM at $31/host/month plus LLM Observability metered per ingested span and per indexed log. Datadog's own agent, Bits AI SRE, is priced at $500 annually for 20 autonomous incident investigations per month, which works out to roughly $2 per investigation and is a rare example of an incumbent pricing an agent per-outcome rather than per-host. The structural problem for the category: the same agents that generate the telemetry are the ones being sold to interpret it, and the metering unit still favors the vendor.