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As of 30 August 2026, Datadog starts at $15/month. Datadog is a monitoring and security platform for cloud applications. Softwr lists it under Technology. Datadog is made by Datadog Inc, launched in 2010, available on Web, Linux, Windows, macOS.
Overview
What Datadog does
Datadog is a monitoring and security platform for cloud applications. It brings together end-to-end traces, metrics, and logs to make your applications, infrastructure, and third-party services entirely observable.
What people use it for
- Infrastructure monitoring
- Application performance
- Security monitoring
- Log analysis
- Cloud monitoring
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Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Datadog.
- Consumption-based pricing model makes costs hard to predict and can scale quickly
- Add-on modules significantly increase costs: custom metrics, indexed spans, extended retention
- No free tier for production monitoring
- High costs for organizations with large amounts of log data or high-cardinality metrics
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Pricing
What Datadog costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Infrastructure Monitoring
$15 /mo
- Host monitoring
- Basic dashboards
APM
$31 /mo
- Application performance monitoring
- Trace collection
Log Management
$0.1 /gb
- Log indexing
- Search and filter
Capabilities
Features
Infrastructure monitoring
Application performance monitoring
Log management
Real user monitoring
Synthetic monitoring
Security monitoring
Network monitoring
Serverless monitoring
AWS
Integration with AWS
Azure
Integration with Azure
Google Cloud
Integration with Google Cloud
Kubernetes
Integration with Kubernetes
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Questions people ask
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How is Datadog pricing structured?
Datadog uses consumption-based pricing tied to data volume ingested, hosts monitored, and products enabled. Infrastructure Monitoring starts at $15/host/month, APM at $31/host/month, and Log Management at $0.10/GB for indexed logs.
SourceDoes Datadog offer a free tier?
Datadog offers a free trial but not a permanent free tier for production monitoring. Pricing begins with paid plans only.
SourceWhat integrations does Datadog support?
Datadog offers 1000+ built-in integrations including AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Azure, GCP, and most major cloud platforms and services.
SourceCan Datadog monitor Kubernetes clusters?
Yes. The Datadog Agent runs as a DaemonSet to provide real-time visibility into pods, nodes, deployments, and control-plane health across major Kubernetes distributions including EKS, AKS, GKE, OpenShift, and others.
SourceHow can I reduce Datadog costs?
Datadog bills based on indexed logs, custom metrics, and high-cardinality tags. Costs can be unpredictable and may run 2-3x estimates. Prepaying annually can secure 5-15% discounts.
SourceBehind it
Who makes Datadog
- Company
- Datadog Inc
- Based in
- New York, NY
- Founders
- Olivier Pomel, Alexis Lê-Quôc
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