Question 1

What is Sunshine and how does it help with Datadog costs?

Accepted Answer

Sunshine is a FinOps platform built specifically for Datadog. It gives platform and finance teams real-time visibility into contract usage, cost forecasting with automatic trend analysis, and on-demand spend tracking across 50+ billing dimensions — so you never get surprised by your invoice again.

Question 2

How long does it take to set up?

Accepted Answer

About 2 minutes. Just connect your Datadog account, import your contract details, and you're done. No agents to install, no code to deploy, no infrastructure changes required.

Question 3

What are on-demand charges and why should I track them?

Accepted Answer

When your Datadog usage exceeds the quantities committed in your contract, the excess is billed at on-demand rates — which can be up to 2x more expensive. Sunshine tracks on-demand usage in real time and can send SMS alerts so you can act before overages hit your invoice.

Question 4

How much does Sunshine cost?

Accepted Answer

Sunshine is free for Sunny Systems clients. For everyone else, the Pro plan is $500/month per Datadog account with a 7-day free trial — no credit card required.

Question 5

Which billing dimensions does Sunshine track?

Accepted Answer

Sunshine covers 50+ Datadog billing dimensions including Infra Hosts, APM Hosts, Logs Ingestion, Logs Indexing, Synthetics, Custom Metrics, Fargate Tasks, Lambda Invocations, and many more. It also calculates smart allotments — like containers included per host — so nothing slips through the cracks.

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