Which ingestion scenario for a customer with 3 APM hosts would result in additional ingestion costs?

Ingestion costs in a monitoring service like Datadog are determined by the volume of data ingested from each host. In this scenario, the ingestion totals from each of the three hosts need to be considered.

The correct choice demonstrates a situation where the cumulative data size ingested is particularly high. In this case, Host A ingests 90 GB, Host B ingests 110 GB, and Host C ingests a substantial 280 GB. The total ingestion for this scenario is 480 GB, which represents a significant increase in data volume. High data ingestion rates contribute to higher costs based on Datadog’s pricing model, which typically includes costs associated with the amount of data ingested each month.

When analyzing the other scenarios, while they all have their own ingestion totals, they do not reach the same high cumulative volume as option D. The other combinations show lower total data ingestion amounts, which would, therefore, incur lower costs relative to the scenario in option D. Specifically, each of the other options (A, B, and C) has either hosts consistently ingesting lower data, or a total that is considerably less than that found in option D. Hence, option D stands out as the scenario resulting in additional ingestion costs due to