Hi all,
I am running a small scale home lab and I have a need for log management and email alerting. It is very very basic and very small scale, we are talking ~100 log entries a day and 1 Monitor job to look for some keywords and send me emails notifications.

Up till now I've been running my own EFK stack (plus Elastalert) but it's way too powerful and complex for my use case.

I have tried Datadog and was able to build the log management and email alerting I needed in a few hours starting from scratch and not nowing the plaform. Everything seems to work perfectly and I must say I am quite happy with the product.

My problem is: I have no idea how much this is going to cost me. The description of the plans are not clear, or rather I don't know how to read it.

For now I am using the Trial subscription and I still have 14 days in front of me. What will happen when the trial finishes ?

The Free plan does not include Logs nor Monitors, so I am assuming I need the Pro plan, is this correct?

I see on the pricing page of the Pro plan two items for "Log Ingestion" and "Indexed Logs", what is the difference between the two? I do not see a price item for my log "Monitor" - is this included somewhere else?

Then I sort of remember seeing somewhere that you have to have minimum one host activated and indeed after creating my account I needed to connect one agent before being able to do anything. Now I have disabled my host so that there is nothing showing under "Infrastructure". Am I still going to be charged for 1 host at 15$/mo ?

Thank you for your help.