Logs · Updated 10 November 2026 · 9 min read

European alternatives to Datadog in 2026

Scaleway Cockpit, self-hosted SigNoz or Grafana, OVHcloud Logs Data Platform, Eurobase project logs, Grafana Cloud, SigNoz Cloud and Better Stack, compared on operator, data location and price.

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For Datadog's mix of metrics, logs and traces under a European operator, look first at Scaleway Cockpit, a managed Grafana stack run by a French cloud provider. If you want full control, run SigNoz or the Grafana tools yourself on a server in Europe. OVHcloud Logs Data Platform covers logs only, and Eurobase gives the apps it hosts a built-in Logs page. Grafana Cloud, SigNoz Cloud and Better Stack can keep your data in a European region, but the companies behind them are American.

Datadog alternatives at a glance

Platform	Company	Data in Europe	Signals	Starting price
Scaleway Cockpit	France	Paris, Amsterdam, Warsaw or Milan	Metrics, logs, traces	Data from Scaleway resources free, custom data billed by volume
Self-hosted SigNoz or Grafana stack	You	Any server you pick	Metrics, logs, traces	Free software, you pay for servers
OVHcloud Logs Data Platform	Roubaix, France	Not stated	Logs	First GB a month free, then $1.04 per GiB a month
Eurobase	Warsaw, Poland	European infrastructure run by Scaleway	Logs of apps it hosts	Included in €10 or €20 a month + VAT
Grafana Cloud	New York, United States	EU regions on AWS, Google Cloud or Azure	Metrics, logs, traces	Free tier, Pro from $19 a month + usage
SigNoz Cloud	San Francisco, United States	EU data centre available	Metrics, logs, traces	$49 a month including $49 of usage
Better Stack	Delaware, United States	Germany region	Logs, traces, metrics, uptime	Free tier, then by volume

Prices are from each provider's own page, checked on 9 and 10 November 2026.

What to check before you leave Datadog

Operator versus region. Datadog itself offers an EU1 site in Germany, yet the contract is with Datadog, Inc., a Delaware corporation. If a European operator is the goal, read the company name on the terms. EU region vs EU company covers why that matters.
Which signals you really use. If the log search is the only Datadog screen your team opens, a logs-only service may be enough.
How you instrument. Cockpit, Grafana and SigNoz all take OpenTelemetry data, so code instrumented that way can switch backends by changing the endpoint. Code that uses Datadog's own libraries needs to move to OpenTelemetry first.
Billing unit. Datadog charges per host for infrastructure. The alternatives here mostly charge per GB or per sample, which changes what a busy service costs.
Retention. Defaults range from 3 days to a month. Check what your incident reviews and audits need, and what keeping data longer costs.

1. Scaleway Cockpit

Cockpit is Scaleway's managed observability service, built on Grafana for dashboards, Loki for logs, Mimir for metrics and Tempo for traces. It switches itself on once a project uses Scaleway resources that report to it, and Scaleway sets up preconfigured dashboards for those resources. You can also push custom data from apps running anywhere, which is how you'd replace Datadog for code hosted elsewhere.

Best for: teams who want metrics, logs and traces in one place, run by a European cloud provider.
Price: data from Scaleway resources is collected for free. Custom metrics start at €0.15 per million samples, with lower rates at higher volumes, while custom logs and traces are billed per GB ingested. Metrics are kept 31 days and logs and traces 7 days at no charge; longer retention, up to 5 years, is billed by daily storage volume.
What it lacks: a per-GB rate for custom logs and traces in its pricing docs, so get the figure from Scaleway's price list before you size a move.

2. Self-hosted SigNoz or the Grafana stack

SigNoz offers a Community edition you install and manage yourself, with logs, traces and metrics in one interface. The alternative is assembling Grafana, Loki, Mimir and Tempo, the same parts Cockpit uses. Either way you choose the server, so the data stays where you put it. As a price floor, the German host Hetzner advertises a CPX02 cloud server at €5.49 a month excl. VAT in Helsinki, or €6.49 in Falkenstein and Nuremberg, though its cheapest plans couldn't be ordered on 10 November 2026.

Best for: teams with operations skills who want every byte on hardware they pick.
Price: no licence fee for the self-hosted editions. You pay for compute, disks and object storage.
What it lacks: a vendor that fixes the cluster when storage fills or an upgrade fails. SSO and SAML are features SigNoz reserves for its cloud offering.

3. OVHcloud Logs Data Platform

OVHcloud runs this service on OpenSearch and Logstash, with Graylog for the log stream and Grafana or Graylog for dashboards. Your sources can sit with any provider or in your own racks. See EU log management for a closer look at log-only services.

Best for: replacing Datadog Log Management when you need full-text search and long archives.
Price: Standard costs nothing to subscribe or set up, and your first GB a month is free. From there OVHcloud charges for what you keep, not what you send: $1.04 per GiB a month between 2 and 100 GB, $0.41 beyond that. Archiving to cold storage costs $0.10 per GiB a month, with terms up to 10 years.
What it lacks: APM, and OVHcloud lists its metrics service as coming soon. Where your logs are stored isn't named on the product page.

4. Eurobase project logs

Eurobase is a hosting platform, so it only replaces part of Datadog. If your apps run on it, the Logs page of each project shows builds, HTTP requests and runtime output from containers, Functions and Workers, plus storage events. Narrow the stream by resource, status or time range, and let coding agents query the same entries through the MCP server.

Best for: small apps hosted on Eurobase that need request and error logs without a separate monitoring bill.
Price: no separate fee. The monthly log allowance is 256 MiB on Free, 1 GiB on Starter and 5 GiB on Pro, which cost €10 and €20 a month + VAT. There are no usage charges today: work over a limit is refused, apps on V8 isolates and Functions stop until the monthly reset, and containers and static sites keep serving.
Company: registered in Warsaw, Poland, with apps and logs kept on European infrastructure run by Scaleway, a French provider.
What it lacks: the docs don't describe metrics dashboards, distributed tracing, alerts or collection from servers it doesn't host. The Logs page keeps up to 30 days. Neither an ISO 27001 nor a SOC 2 audit has been completed; both are underway.

5. Grafana Cloud

Grafana Labs, based in New York, hosts the same open-source stack as a service. For European customers it offers AWS regions in Germany, Ireland and Sweden, a Google Cloud region in Belgium and an Azure region in the Netherlands.

Best for: teams already on Grafana dashboards who accept a US operator.
Price: the free tier takes up to 50 GB of logs a month and keeps them 14 days. Pro has a $19 monthly platform fee plus usage.
What it lacks: a European operator. Both the company and the cloud under each EU region are American.

6. SigNoz Cloud

The managed version of SigNoz, sold by Signoz, Inc., a Delaware company with an office in San Francisco. It's built on OpenTelemetry, has no per-host or per-user pricing, and lists data centres in the US, EU and India.

Best for: teams who want a Datadog-like view of traces, logs and metrics with usage-based pricing.
Price: the Teams plan starts at $49 a month, which includes $49 of usage. After that, $0.30 per GB of logs or traces and $0.10 per million metric samples.
What it lacks: a European contracting party. Its terms are governed by Delaware law.

7. Better Stack

Better Stack bundles logs, traces and metrics with uptime checks, on-call and status pages. Better Stack, Inc., a Delaware corporation, runs it, and Germany is one of the data regions you can choose per source.

Best for: small teams who want monitoring, alerting and incident response in one bill.
Price: the free plan holds 3 GB of logs a month for 3 days. In the Germany region, extra logs cost $0.10 per GB to ingest and $0.05 per GB a month to keep.
What it lacks: a company based in Europe. The region is a setting on each source, so check it every time you add one.

How to choose

You need a European operator and all three signals: Scaleway Cockpit.
You need control over every server: self-hosted SigNoz or the Grafana stack.
Logs are all you use in Datadog: OVHcloud Logs Data Platform, or Eurobase's built-in logs if your apps already run there.
A US company is fine as long as the data stays in an EU region: Grafana Cloud, SigNoz Cloud or Better Stack.

Frequently asked questions

Does Datadog have an EU region?

Yes. Datadog's EU1 site, at app.datadoghq.eu, is located in Germany. The contract is still with Datadog, Inc., a US company headquartered in New York, so the region alone doesn't make it a European provider.

Is there an open-source alternative to Datadog?

Yes. SigNoz has a self-hosted Community edition, and Grafana with Loki, Mimir and Tempo covers dashboards, logs, metrics and traces. Both accept OpenTelemetry data.

How much does Datadog cost compared with these options?

Datadog Infrastructure Pro starts at $15 per host a month billed annually, or $18 on demand, and logs and APM are priced separately. Cockpit doesn't charge for data from Scaleway resources, and SigNoz Cloud starts at $49 a month with usage included.

Can I move from Datadog without changing my code?

Only if you already send data through OpenTelemetry or Prometheus. If you use Datadog's own libraries, plan to swap them for OpenTelemetry SDKs, then point the exporter at the new backend.

Can Eurobase replace Datadog?

Only for logs, and only for apps it hosts. For metrics, traces and alerts, pair it with Cockpit or a self-hosted stack. Eurobase logs shows what's included.