Migrate from Datadog to Grafana

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Shift Metrics — Migrate from Datadog to Grafana

Migration tool in production — real results, real savings

Escape Datadog.

Keep your dashboards.

Shift Metrics automates migration of your Datadog dashboards, alert rules, and log monitors<br>to Grafana LGTM — converting PromQL, building alert rules, and pushing everything via API.<br>One-time fee. You own it forever.

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# Step 1: Export from Datadog

$ shift-migrate fetch --api-key $DD_API_KEY --app-key $DD_APP_KEY

✓ Fetched 512 dashboards, 406 monitors

# Step 2: Convert to Grafana format

$ dd-push --grafana-url http://grafana.local --dry-run

✓ 512 dashboards converted (73-100% fidelity)

✓ 66 alert rules ready to push

⚠ 340 TODO rules (SaaS metrics, no Prometheus equivalent)

# Step 3: Push to Grafana

$ monitor-push --grafana-url http://grafana.local *.json

✓ 66 alert rules created in Grafana

✓ 512 dashboards imported

Done. Cancel Datadog. Save $200K/year.

500+

Dashboards converted

550+

Alert rules processed

73–100%

Dashboard fidelity

$0/mo

After migration

Datadog is great at taking your money

The tooling is powerful. The bill is not. Here's what teams are dealing with.

Bills that compound

$100K–$500K/year for mid-size teams. Every new host, every log line, every trace adds to the tab — and the pricing page changes every year.

Vendor lock-in

Datadog query language, custom metrics format, proprietary alert syntax. Switching feels impossible because moving 500 dashboards by hand would take months.

Migration takes months

Teams that try to migrate manually spend 3–6 months hand-converting dashboards. Meanwhile Datadog keeps billing, and morale tanks halfway through.

Three commands. One migration.

Shift Metrics is a CLI tool that talks to both Datadog's API and Grafana's API. No SaaS middleman. Your data never leaves your network.

Fetch from Datadog

Export all dashboards and monitors via the Datadog API using your existing API key. No data leaves Datadog — you get local JSON files.

$ shift-migrate fetch \

--api-key $DD_API_KEY \

--app-key $DD_APP_KEY

✓ 512 dashboards, 406 monitors

Convert to Grafana

The converter handles Datadog query syntax → PromQL, widget types, alert expressions, log monitor selectors, and annotation metadata.

$ dd-push --dry-run

✓ Dashboard: 100% fidelity

✓ k8s alerts: 66 converted

⚠ SaaS monitors: TODO

Push to Grafana

Dashboards and alert rules are pushed via Grafana's provisioning API. Idempotent — re-run any time, existing rules update, nothing duplicates.

$ monitor-push \

--grafana-url http://grafana \

monitors/*.json

✓ 66 alert rules live

What gets converted automatically

Dashboards

✓ Timeseries & gauges

✓ Tables & stat panels

✓ Heatmaps

✓ Template variables

✓ Row grouping

Alert Rules

✓ Threshold monitors

✓ Multi-metric arithmetic

✓ change() → increase()

✓ Kubernetes metrics

✓ Warning + critical

Log Monitors

✓ Log query → LogQL

✓ Loki datasource rules

✓ No-data handling

✓ Count thresholds

✓ Service filtering

PromQL Mapping

✓ 80+ metric mappings

✓ Label translation

✓ Rate/increase wrapping

✓ Aggregation functions

✓ Filter expressions

What's your Datadog bill worth?

Drag the slider. See the math.

Monthly Datadog spend<br>$10,000

$1K/mo<br>$500K/mo

You pay Datadog yearly

$120,000

Shift Metrics license

$1,999

Professional tier

3-year savings

$358,000

ROI: 17,900%

You spend $1,999 once. Datadog would have billed you $360,000 over 3 years.

* Assumes $0/mo LGTM infra cost on existing Kubernetes cluster. Cloud hosting adds ~$200-500/mo for Mimir, Loki, Tempo at typical scale.

One-time pricing. No subscriptions.

You migrate once. You pay once. Then you own the tool, keep the savings, and never hear from us unless you want to.

Free

$0

Forever free

✓ Up to 10 dashboards

✓ Up to 10 alert rules

✓ Dry-run mode

✓ Full CLI access

– Email support

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Starter

$499

One-time payment

✓ Unlimited dashboards

✓ Unlimited alert rules

✓ Dry-run & audit mode

✓ 30-day email support

– Migration report

Get Starter

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Professional

$1,999

One-time payment

✓ Everything in Starter

✓ Migration health report

✓ 90-day priority support

✓ Metric mapping guidance

✓ Slack channel access

Get Professional

Enterprise

$9,999+

One-time, custom scope

✓ Everything in Pro

✓ Hands-on with your team

✓ Custom integrations

✓ 12-month support SLA

✓ NDA + invoicing

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Optional: Post-migration support retainer

Teams mid-transition often add assets during their Datadog wind-down period. Our optional retainer ($299–499/month, 90-day cap) covers new dashboard conversions, metric validation questions, and report updates while you ramp down Datadog. Opt-in only — no auto-renewal.

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Why teams trust this tooling

Data never leaves your network

Shift Metrics is a CLI tool. It calls Datadog's API and your Grafana's API directly. Nothing goes through our servers.

Idempotent &...

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