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Cloud monitoring and observability across infra, apps, and logs.
Datadog is a cloud-scale monitoring and observability platform that brings infrastructure metrics, application performance monitoring (APM), logs, and more into a single pane of glass. Engineering and DevOps teams use it to see the health of complex, distributed cloud systems — spotting slow services, tracing requests across microservices, correlating logs with metrics, and alerting before customers notice.
Its breadth is the selling point and the pricing catch: Datadog spans 20+ products — infrastructure monitoring, APM and distributed tracing, log management, synthetic and real-user monitoring, database and network monitoring, security monitoring, and more — all integrated. That integration is powerful for correlating signals across the stack, but because it is billed per product, per host, and per GB of logs, costs can stack up quickly as you enable more.
Datadog suits teams running modern cloud and containerized workloads that need deep, unified observability. It is generally aimed at growing and enterprise engineering teams; smaller teams often start with a subset of products or compare more focused, lower-cost tools.
Pricing Model
Per host / per GB, modular
Starting Price
$15/mo
Free Options
Free version, Free trial
Up to 5 hosts with core metrics and 1-day metric retention.
Per host (annual); ~$18 on-demand. Core infra monitoring.
Per host (annual); ~$27 on-demand. Advanced infra features.
Per host (annual). Application performance monitoring & tracing (requires infra plan).
Usage-based: about $0.10/GB ingested plus indexing per million events.
Custom pricing bundling multiple products for large orgs.
| Feature | Free | Infrastructure Pro Popular | Infrastructure Enterprise | APM | Log Management | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Up to 5 hosts | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Core infrastructure metrics | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 1-day metric retention | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 400+ integrations | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Basic dashboards | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Per-host infrastructure monitoring | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 100 custom metrics/host | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 15-month metric retention | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Alerting & dashboards | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Container monitoring | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 200 custom metrics/host | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Advanced alerting | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Live processes | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Anomaly & forecast alerts | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Distributed tracing | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Service maps | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Code-level performance | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Requires paired infra plan | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Log ingestion ~$0.10/GB | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Indexing per million events | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Live tail & search | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Flexible retention | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Custom product bundle | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Volume discounts | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Advanced security | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Dedicated support | — | — | — | — | — |
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Compliance Standards
SOC 2 Type II
EnterpriseISO 27001
EnterpriseGDPR Compliant
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HealthcarePCI DSS
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