Collapse the stack.
Keep the coverage.
Four monitoring tools you contracted. Four more you didn’t know you had. Panaptico discovers the shadow spend, maps capability overlap across every vendor, re-homes the workloads to a single platform, and closes the books on what gets retired.
Current · 4 sanctioned
Splunk
$3.20M/yr
Logs · SIEM-adjacent search
New Relic
$680K/yr
APM · browser · mobile
Dynatrace
$1.10M/yr
Infra · full-stack APM
AppDynamics
$940K/yr
Business APM · transaction analytics
+ 4 shadow · $587K/yr
Discovered by Panaptico — not on the CMDB.
Target
Datadog
- Projected cost
- $3.10M/yr
- Workloads
- 8 of 8
- Dashboards
- 722 → 268
- Monitors
- 1,103 → 612
Net savings
$3.41M/yr
$6.51M retired · $3.10M consolidated
The gap
You can’t consolidate what you haven’t found.
01
The CMDB is a suggestion, not an inventory
Every consolidation starts with someone saying ‘we have four monitoring tools.’ Panaptico scans the environment and finds six, plus a Honeycomb POC that quietly became production.
02
Four vendors, four schemas, four opinions
Logs, APM, RUM, synthetic — each tool models them differently. Routing a workload requires translation, not copy-paste. Dashboards don’t port; they get rebuilt.
03
Shelfware doesn’t die on its own
Cut the contract and the agent keeps running. Forget the agent and the bill renews. Consolidation without a sunset ledger is just an extra tool on top of the four you already had.
Shadow discovery
The tools you didn’t know you bought.
Panaptico scans egress traffic, billing systems, SSO logs, and cloud marketplaces — then reconciles against the sanctioned inventory. Every unsanctioned tenant surfaces with an owner attached.
Instances found
4
Owners identified
4 / 4
Shadow spend
$587K/yr
3× Grafana Cloud tenants
Platform, Data, Mobile eng
$180K
No SSO · personal billing · orphaned dashboards
2× New Relic accounts (out-of-contract)
Acquired team · legacy project
$240K
Auto-renewed · outside master agreement
Honeycomb POC in production
Checkout service
$95K
POC · no SSO · two engineers with keys
Datadog trial, never terminated
SRE sandbox
$72K
Trial became monthly · no owner on record
Capability overlap
Where the four tools actually collide.
Panaptico maps every capability against every vendor — primary, secondary, or absent — then routes the workload to the consolidated tool that keeps the primary owner closest to its original role.
- LogsPss—
- APM · distributed tracing—PPP
- Infrastructure monitoringssPs
- RUM · real-user monitoring—PP—
- Synthetic monitoring—sP—
- DashboardsPPPP
- Alerting / monitorsssss
- Business transaction analytics———P
Workload router
Every workload gets a new address — and someone to catch it.
For each capability, Panaptico re-homes the workload to Datadog with a signed plan: agent swap, schema translation, ownership transfer, and dedup rules for the stuff that came from four sources.
From
To
Datadog Logs
Logs
7-day hot · 90-day cold · query-time rehydration
42 TB/day
From
To
Datadog APM
APM · tracing
three agents retired · OTel collector front-door
1,847 services
From
To
Datadog Infra
Infrastructure
agent swap · ETA W4 · zero data-gap window
3,100 hosts
From
To
Datadog RUM
RUM
SDK rewrite · session replay retained
41 apps
From
To
Datadog Synthetics
Synthetic
assertion re-authoring · public + private locations
317 checks
From
To
Datadog Dashboards
Dashboards
deduped · 312 merged · 142 retired as unused
722 → 268
From
To
Datadog Monitors
Alerts / monitors
491 retired as redundant · ownership re-signed
1,103 → 612
From
To
Datadog APM + custom metrics
Business txn analytics
gap remains · 80 txns re-instrumented in-app
1,400 txns
Consolidation economics
Four bills, plus four you forgot, minus one.
Retiring
$6.51M / yr
Splunk
$3.20M
New Relic
$680K
Dynatrace
$1.10M
AppDynamics
$940K
Shadow spend (4 instances)
$587K
Consolidated
$3.10M
Datadog · contracted · year-1 ramp included
Net savings / yr
$3.41M
52% reduction · signed by CFO
Payback period
4.2 mo
3-year NPV
$7.4M
Four tools, one platform.
Nothing left billing in the dark.
Panaptico finds the shadow inventory, maps the overlap, routes the workloads, and closes the sunset ledger. The CFO gets the savings — and the proof.