High watermark plan (HWMP)
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- Kind
- Billing plan
- Term
- Monthly
- Aliases
- HWMP; 99th percentile billing
- Definition
- Pricing documentation: Datadog meters host count each hour and bills on "the maximum count (high-water mark) of the lower 99% of those hourly readings, excluding the top 1% to reduce the impact of short usage spikes on your bill."
- Commercial rules
- Applies to host-based products such as Infrastructure Monitoring, APM and Database Monitoring. For APM and Database Monitoring the documentation expresses it as the ninth-highest hourly measurement (eighth in February).
- Applies to
- Host-based products (Infrastructure Monitoring, APM, Database Monitoring, Cloud Network Monitoring, Continuous Profiler)
- Related metrics