Cloud monitoring & security platform
Data verified Sep 3, 2026
Datadog is the essential monitoring and security platform for cloud-scale teams. With 700+ integrations, Datadog gives complete visibility into your infrastructure, applications, logs, and security — used by 27,000+ organizations worldwide.
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Developers
Build and monitor applications with observability and security tooling across the stack.
IT Operations Teams
Monitor infrastructure, networks, and cloud environments at scale.
Business Users
Use the cloud-age monitoring and security platform for insight into their systems.
Datadog starts at Free tier (Free Trial).
Yes, Datadog offers a free trial of 14 days.
Yes, Datadog provides an API for developers.
Datadog is available on Web, Mac, Windows, iOS, Android.
Datadog integrates with Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, Pivotal Platform, OpenAI, and more.
Datadog's published pricing · verified Sep 3, 2026
Free tier
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Datadog is offered as a cloud-based (SaaS) deployment.
Pricing is the most-cited complaint due to complex per-host, per-GB, and per-metric billing across multiple products Also, High-water mark billing charges a full month based on a temporary usage spike, making spend unpredictable
Datadog is best suited for Developers, IT Operations Teams, Business Users.
Common uses for Datadog include application security, cloud migration, monitoring consolidation, unified commerce monitoring.
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