Datadog Usage Attribution Tags (UAT)

What are Usage Attribution Tags (UAT)?

UAT or user-defined tags in Datadog allow you to categorize resources and allocate costs using key-value pairs, such as team:engineering or project:beta. This feature enables more granular insights into usage patterns and cost breakdowns, helping you optimize your Datadog spend effectively. See Datadog documentation for more details.

Note:

• This feature is available only for accounts using Datadog’s Enterprise account.

• UATs can be created per Datadog organization (both parent and sub).

• Each organization (parent/sub) supports up to 3 different UAT types.

• Every parent /sub organization can select its own Usage Attribution Tags, they don’t have to be identical between different organizations.

• UATs apply across all Datadog products the organization uses for cost and usage tracking.

Integration Types: UAT (Recommended) and Custom Tags

Finout supports two Datadog integrations: UAT Integration (recommended) and Custom Tags Integration. UAT Integration provides detailed cost and usage breakdowns using Usage Attribution Tags, Datadog organizations, and regions, ensuring accurate data across all Finout features. At the same time, Custom Tags Integration retrieves only cost data based on user-defined tags, which can vary across products.

Key Benefits of Datadog UAT Integration:

• Datadog Usage: Easily track and analyze your Datadog usage with full support for fetching, presenting, and breaking down usage data by tags for deeper cost insights.

• More Coverage Across Datadog Products – Allows the breakdown of cost and usage data of multiple products, unlike the previous Custom Tags integration.

• Accurate Cost and Usage Allocation – UAT uses Datadog's native cost and usage allocation, eliminating guesswork and ensuring accurate and reliable cost distribution.

• Deeper Insights with Additional Breakdown Options – Beyond UATs, you can also segment data by organizations and regions for a clearer financial picture.

• Consistent and Standardized Reporting – Unlike custom tags, which vary by product, UAT provides a uniform and structured breakdown across organizations, sub-organizations, and regions.

Prerequisites

• UAT Integration is available only for Datadog Enterprise accounts. If your account is not on an Enterprise plan, you can use the Custom Tags integration instead.

• Your Usage Attribution Tags must be tagged at the parent organization level with an enterprise account in Datadog.

  Note: If you currently have the Custom Tags integration, contact us at [email protected] to enable UAT.

UAT integration with Datadog Products

Datadog supports data breakdown by UATs, organizations, and regions for the following products:

Note: - This provides data presentation, cost, and usage data for all Datadog products, with a detailed breakdown of DataDog cost and usage by the parent organization's UATs. - General cost and usage data is presented for all the following products.

• APM Fargate

• APM Host

• APM Trace Search

• Application Security Host

• CI Pipeline

• CI Pipeline Indexed Spans

• CI Test Indexed Spans

• Custom Event

• CWS Host

• Database Monitoring (DBM) Host

• Database Monitoring (DBM) Normalized Queries

• Fargate Container

• Fargate Container Profiler

• Infrastructure Container

• Infrastructure Host

• Ingested Spans

• Ingested Timeseries

• Lambda Function

• Logs Indexed (15 Days)

• Logs Indexed (180 Days)

• Logs Indexed (30 Days)

• Logs Indexed (3 Days)

• Logs Indexed (7 Days)

• Logs Indexed (90 Days)

• Logs Ingested

• Network Performance Monitoring (NPM) Host

• Online Archive

• Profiler Container

• Profiler Host

• RUM Replays

• RUM Lite

• Sensitive Data Scanner

• Serverless Invocation

• Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

• Synthetics API Tests

• Synthetics Application Testing

• Synthetics Browser Checks

• Timeseries

Note: Contact Customer Support at [email protected] to enable the breakdown of cost and usage by UAT, Organization, Region, and additional products not found on this list.

How Does UAT Work?

Usage Attribution Tags (UATs) in Datadog enable cost and usage breakdown by parent account's UATs, organizations (including sub-organizations), and regions. Finout retrieves tags based on the parent organization and categorizes costs and usage accordingly. If sub-organizations use the same tags as the parent organization, their data can be broken down using these tags. However, if sub-organization tags differ from the parent organization's, data will be categorized as "N/A" when filtering/grouping by the parent’s tags, as breakdowns by sub-organization tags are not yet supported.

Note: If your UATs are tagged based on sub-organizations, contact support at [email protected]. This is currently not supported.

How can UAT be used in Finout?

Usage Attribution Tags (UATs) in Datadog enable you to break down cost and usage data by your parent account's UATs, organizations (including sub-organizations), and regions. With UAT, you can analyze this data across all Finout features (except CostGuard) to make better-informed decisions and optimize cost management. For more details on integrating with Datadog, see Connect to Datadog.

Use case: UAT in MegaBill

In Finout's MegaBill, you can view Datadog cost and usage data by grouping resources based on your UATs, organizations, or regions. This offers detailed insights into your Datadog's cost and usage. This analysis extends across features like Virtual Tags, Widgets, and Views, enabling better-informed decisions for optimizing cost management. Additionally, it improves your showback reports, providing clearer visibility into cost allocation and accountability.

Applying group-by for teams (where "team" is one of the accounts UATs):

Daily Datadog team cost for the last seven days:

Daily Datadog team usage for the last seven days:

To integrate Usage Attribution Tags for Datadog, see Connect to Datadog.