# Building a Datadog Alternative: Alerts, Dashboards, and Retention Policies

DevFeed: [Building a Datadog Alternative: Alerts, Dashboards, and Retention Policies](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/you-built-a-datadog-alternative-now-scale-it-18401.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.tinybird.co/blog/build-a-datadog-alternative-in-5-minutes-part-2>)

Author: Alberto Romeu

Published: 2025-02-26T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Tinybird](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/tinybird.md>)

Topics: [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/observability.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dashboards.md>), [datadog](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/datadog.md>)

Tags: [build](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/build.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dashboards.md>), [datadog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/datadog.md>), [i-built-this](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/i-built-this.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [retention](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/retention.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial on building a Datadog alternative by adding alerts, dashboards, and retention policies to an observability stack.

## Source excerpt

Build a Datadog alternative part 2: add alerts, dashboards, and retention policies. Complete your observability stack today.