Kevel, building infrastructure APIs for companies to rapidly create custom advertising platforms and drive new revenue, enabled engineers to understand and reduce cloud costs using Datadog Cloud Cost Management. Needing to scale dynamically while maintaining cost-efficiency by combining observability with cost context, Datadog accelerated visibility and reporting by centralizing cloud costs. It reduced time to detect overages and investigate changes by unifying spend and observability data in a single view—as CTO Tim Ewald emphasized, making cost a core engineering priority alongside scale and security.

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