Datadog
Cloud Monitoring as a Service
About Datadog
Datadog is a cloud monitoring platform that aggregates metrics, traces, logs, and events from across infrastructure and applications. It serves developers, site reliability engineers, and IT ops teams needing real-time visibility and anomaly detection to keep cloud apps reliable.
Features
For teams managing distributed microservices and multi-cloud environments, Datadog provides a unified view of metrics, traces, and logs to diagnose issues and optimize performance across stacks:
- Infrastructure Monitoring: collects and visualizes metrics from servers, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud services; includes container monitoring, Kubernetes autoscaling signals, and network checks.
- Application Performance Monitoring (APM): traces requests across services, offers code-level profiling, dynamic instrumentation, and database monitoring to locate bottlenecks.
- Logs and Observability Pipelines: centralizes log management with search and analytics, and ties logs to traces and metrics for context.
- Cloud Cost Management: provides spend visibility, cost allocation, and anomaly detection across cloud providers to help identify waste.
Best for SREs, platform teams, and developers managing cloud-native applications.
Pricing
View pricing ↗Infrastructure Free
$0 / per month
- 1-day metric retention
- Up to 5 hosts
Infrastructure Pro
$15 / per host, per month
- Centralized monitoring of systems, services, and serverless functions
- 1,000+ integrations
- Out-of-the-box dashboards
- 15-month metric retention
Infrastructure Enterprise
$23 / per host, per month
- Advanced features and administrative controls
- Machine learning-based alerts
- Live Processes
DevSecOps Pro
$22 / per host, per month
- Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
- Vulnerability Management (VM) for Containers & Hosts
DevSecOps Enterprise
$34 / per host, per month
- File integrity monitoring
- Increased container allotment (10 containers allotted per host license)
APM
$31 / per host, per month
- End-to-end distributed tracing for any app at any scale
- 15-minute live trace search & analytics
- 15-day historical search & analytics
APM Pro
$35 / per host, per month
- Automatic dependency mapping of all queues, consumers, and producers
- End-to-end pipeline latency and consumer lag metrics
APM Enterprise
$40 / per host, per month
- Code-level tracing including wall, lock, CPU, and I/O time
- CPU and memory code profiles for resource and cost optimization
Bits AI SRE Investigations
$500 / per 20 investigations, per month
- Automatic alert investigations with zero setup
- Root causes delivered in minutes
- Chat-based explanations in natural language
Internal Developer Portal Standard
$0 / per month
- Auto-discover your software components with Datadog telemetry
- Centralize ownership and documentation alongside live system data
Internal Developer Portal Premium
Custom Quote / per month
- Drive adoption by customizing your developer portal
- Build Self-Service Actions
Application Performance Monitoring
$31 / per host, per month
- Automatic service discovery and dependency mapping
- 15-month retention
Database Monitoring
$70 / per database host, per month
- Track normalized query performance trends
- Correlate query performance with database infrastructure metrics
Log Management Standard
$0.10 / per ingested or scanned GB, per month
- Out-of-the-box parsing for 200+ log sources
- Generate log-based metrics for long term analysis
Log Management Standard Indexing
$1.70 / per million log events, per month
- Detect log anomalies proactively
- Prioritize logs for critical investigations
Log Management Flex Starter
$0.60 / per million events stored, per month
- Retention options up to 15 months
- Easily search for logs stored in both Standard and Flex Tier
Cloud Security Pro
$10 / per host, per month
- Continuous scanning across your entire cloud infrastructure
- Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
Cloud Security Enterprise
$25 / per host, per month
- File integrity monitoring
- Workload Protection for Linux, Windows, Kubernetes, Docker
Error Tracking
$25 / per month
- Automatically group similar errors into issues
- Prioritize the most important issues
