# Datadog Infrastructure Monitoring Optimization | Cloud Efficiency Hub

Canonical: https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/datadog-infrastructure-monitoring

2 documented Datadog Infrastructure Monitoring cost inefficiencies, each with how to detect it and how to fix it.

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2 documented Datadog Infrastructure Monitoring cost inefficiencies, each with how to detect it and how to fix it.

## 2 inefficiencies

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- Datadog Infrastructure Monitoring  CER-0543

### [Unfiltered Datadog Cloud Integrations Billing Non-Essential Hosts](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/inefficiencies/unfiltered-datadog-cloud-integrations-billing-non-essential-hosts)

Datadog's AWS, Azure and Google Cloud integrations discover virtual machines by crawling the cloud provider's APIs, and every VM they pick up becomes a billable Datadog host, whether or not the Datadog Agent is installed on it. When an...

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- Datadog Infrastructure Monitoring  CER-0544

### [Datadog Container Usage Exceeding Per-Host Allotment](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/inefficiencies/datadog-container-usage-exceeding-per-host-allotment)

Each Datadog Infrastructure host license on the Pro or Enterprise plan includes a small number of monitored containers, 5 or 10 per host depending on the plan, pooled across the whole account. Dense Kubernetes nodes, sidecar-heavy pods,...

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- [Datadog Commitments  1](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/datadog-commitments)

- [Datadog APM  1](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/datadog-apm)

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