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Cloud Monitoring as a Service

Starting price
$0.10Per ingested or scanned GB, per month
Pricing
Free plan
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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.

Plans and prices as listed on datadoghq.com as of Sep 24, 2026.

Infrastructure Monitoring

$0 / Free

  • Up to 5 hosts
  • Core collection and visualization features

Log Management

$0.10 / Per ingested or scanned GB, per month

  • Out-of-the-box parsing for 200+ log sources
  • Generate log-based metrics
  • Dynamic routing to retention tier options

Continuous Testing

$5 / Per 10K test runs, per month

  • Easily configure and run API tests
  • Monitor site availability
  • Global managed locations

Code Coverage

$8 / Per committer, per month

  • Gain unified visibility into test coverage across repositories
  • Enforce consistent testing standards
  • Improve test reliability

Cloud Security Posture Management (CSM) Pro

$10 / Per host, per month

  • Continuous scanning across cloud infrastructure
  • Vulnerability Management for Containers
  • Case management

Infrastructure Pro

$15 / Per host, per month

  • 1,000+ integrations
  • 15-month metric retention
  • Out-of-the-box dashboards

Workload Protection

$15 / Per host, per month

  • Deep file & process activity monitoring
  • Network anomaly detection
  • Performant eBPF-powered analysis

Data Streams Monitoring

$15 / Per client host, per month

  • Detect slowdowns in event-driven apps
  • Resolve pipeline bottlenecks
  • Correlate telemetry

Infrastructure Enterprise

$23 / Per host, per month

  • Machine learning-based alerts
  • Governance Console
  • Live Processes

Error Tracking

$25 / Per month for 50k errors

  • Prioritize the most important issues
  • Automatically group similar errors
  • Investigate errors faster

Cloud Security Posture Management (CSM) Enterprise

$25 / Per host, per month

  • File integrity monitoring
  • Workload Protection for Linux, Windows
  • Increased container allotment of 20

Application Performance Monitoring

$31 / Per host, per month

  • End-to-end distributed tracing for any app
  • Retain spans using tag-based filters
  • AI-based anomaly detection

Application Performance Monitoring Pro

$35 / Per host, per month

  • Automatic dependency mapping
  • End-to-end pipeline latency metrics
  • Faulty queue detection

Application Performance Monitoring Enterprise

$40 / Per host, per month

  • Low overhead API profiling in production
  • Actionable insights from automatic code analysis
  • Code performance comparisons

Feature Flags

$55 / Per month for 1M-10M MFCRs

  • Control when and how changes reach users
  • Automate risk mitigation
  • Instant visibility into release impact

AI Credits

$500 / Per 500 credits, per month

  • Bits Chat
  • Bits Investigation
  • Bits Code
  • Bits Agent Builder

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