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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.

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Key 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.

Summary

Best for SREs, platform teams, and developers managing cloud-native applications.

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

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