Datadog is a SaaS-based unified observability and security platform providing full visibility into the health and performance of each layer of your environment at a glance.
Datadog is a SaaS-based unified observability and security platform providing full visibility into the health and performance of each layer of your environment at a glance. Datadog allows you to customize this insight to your stack by collecting and correlating data from more than 600 vendor-backed technologies and APM libraries, all in a single pane of glass. Monitor your underlying infrastructure, supporting services, applications alongside security data in a single observability platform.
Prices are based on committed use per month over total term of the agreement (the Total Expected Use).
Highlights
Get started in minutes from AWS Marketplace with our enhanced integration for account creation and setup. Turn-key integrations and easy-to-install agent to start monitoring all of your servers and resources in minutes.
Quickly deploy modern monitoring and security in one powerful observability platform.
Create actionable context to speed up, reduce costs, mitigate security threats and avoid downtime at any scale.
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Pricing is based on the duration and terms of your contract with the vendor, and additional usage. You pay upfront or in installments according to your contract terms with the vendor. This entitles you to a specified quantity of use for the contract duration. Usage-based pricing is in effect for overages or additional usage not covered in the contract. These charges are applied on top of the contract price. If you choose not to renew or replace your contract before the contract end date, access to your entitlements will expire.
Additional AWS infrastructure costs may apply. Use the AWS Pricing Calculator to estimate your infrastructure costs.
You buy Datadog Pro under a contract with separately priced dimensions you can combine. Core monitoring bills per host for Infra Hosts and APM Hosts. Container-based dimensions (Containers, Fargate Tasks, Profiled Containers) bill per unit, while Profiled Hosts and Network Hosts bill per host. Log dimensions bill by ingested volume (per GB) or indexed events (per million), with 15-day and 30-day retention options. Usage add-ons scale by volume: custom metrics per 100, synthetic tests per test-run blocks, RUM per user sessions, and security-analyzed logs per GB. Some serverless dimensions are deprecated. Custom and consumption-unit dimensions support private offers.
Top-of-mind questions for buyers
What counts as a billable host for the Infra Hosts and APM Hosts dimensions?
A host is any physical or virtual OS instance you monitor, such as a server, VM, or Kubernetes node. For APM Hosts, only hosts actively generating traces sent to Datadog count. Uninstrumented hosts like databases or load balancers do not count, even if the agent is present.
What happens if I ingest more logs or index more spans than my committed volume?
You keep full visibility and are not rate-limited on any single day. You pay only for volume that exceeds your commitment. Indexed Logs and Ingested Logs bill separately: ingested logs by GB, indexed logs by million events under 15-day or 30-day retention. Both charges appear together.
How are Containers billed alongside the per-host Infra and APM dimensions?
Container charges apply per container and are billed independently from host charges. Each host license includes an allotment of containers, and additional containers meter per unit on top. Both host charges and container charges appear on the same invoice simultaneously.
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Collects and correlates data from more than 600 vendor-backed technologies and APM libraries in a single platform
Unified Observability Dashboard
Provides full visibility into health and performance across all environment layers in a single pane of glass
Infrastructure and Application Monitoring
Monitors underlying infrastructure, supporting services, applications, and security data simultaneously
Agent-Based Deployment
Includes easy-to-install agent for rapid deployment and monitoring of servers and resources
Security and Performance Analytics
Integrates security data with performance monitoring to enable threat mitigation and downtime prevention
Automated Device Discovery and Configuration
Automatic recognition and configuration of 2,000+ technologies with preconfigured alert thresholds and best practices-based setup without manual intervention
Agentless Monitoring Architecture
Agentless Collector deployment enabling hybrid and multi-cloud visibility with reduced operational overhead and no requirement for continuous agent upgrades
Unified Multi-Environment Visibility
Single-pane-of-glass monitoring across on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud infrastructures including AWS services with panoramic performance visibility
Flexible Data Collection Mechanism
Capability to pull metrics from virtually any device or API with support for custom graphs, dashboards, and alerts for application status analysis and trend identification
Performance Forecasting and Customizable Dashboards
Built-in performance forecasting capabilities combined with rich, customizable dashboards and full reporting functionality for actionable infrastructure insights
Data Ingestion and Query Performance
Ingests petabytes of telemetry per day with capability to process hundreds of terabytes and execute tens of millions of queries daily without performance degradation
Knowledge Graph Architecture
Utilizes O11y Knowledge Graph to structure and correlate data across logs, metrics, and traces for fast search and correlation capabilities
Natural Language Processing for Incident Analysis
Implements O11y AI to enable troubleshooting of complex incidents using natural language queries for accelerated root cause analysis
Open Data Lake Foundation
Built on Snowflake data lake architecture providing open data storage without vendor lock-in and enabling cost-efficient telemetry retention
Multi-Signal Correlation
Correlates and contextualizes data across logs, metrics, and traces to provide unified observability across multiple teams and use cases
I rely on Datadog as our primary single pane of glass observability and platform management tool. I find the deep automated correlation between metrics, logs, and APM traces, along with its service mapping capabilities, to be the most valuable aspects.
What do you dislike about the product?
The main challenge I face with Datadog is cost management and governance at the enterprise scale.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Datadog fills visibility gaps and simplifies complex troubleshooting workflows in multi-team environments by automatically correlating metrics, logs, and APM traces.
Rekha V.
Invaluable Trace Views for Fast Outage Troubleshooting in Kubernetes
Reviewed on Oct 01, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
The trace views are invaluable when there's an outage. We've got the agent running on the nodes on our Kubernetes environment, and immediately had access to all pod metrics, latency traces etc. I even identified a bottleneck with one of our databases during my last on-call shift in a matter of minutes.
What do you dislike about the product?
Hearing about pricing of log ingestion with a startle you out of nowhere It's possible a service may leave debug logging enabled unintentionally and the next morning your bill is astronomically higher. We spend way too much time writing log exclusion rules just to keep ourselves within our team budget.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It combined our entire metrics and app traces into one dashboard and we no longer have to switch back and forth between a bunch of random open source tools. It reduced the time it took to triage issues and enabled us to get in touch with ops faster whenever something was down.
Dena M.
Essential Infrastructure Monitoring with Seamless Integration
Reviewed on Oct 01, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I really like how simple and clean the integration process with Datadog is. Managing our monitoring configuration through infrastructure as code using Terraform is a standout capability for me.
What do you dislike about the product?
My main criticism lies in Datadog's built-in anomaly detection and warning alert capabilities. While the overall experience is positive, this aspect seems less effective and could be improved.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Datadog simplifies managing and diagnosing issues across systems, providing control over visualizing operational health with custom dashboards, and integrates efficiently with Terraform for monitoring configuration.
Courtney S.
Effortless Integration, Powerful Observability
Reviewed on Sep 30, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I like Datadog for its ease of platform integration and the library of predefined dashboards that are incredibly useful.
What do you dislike about the product?
My main complaints with Datadog are its high, rigid pricing structure and the limitations of their customer support workflow.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Datadog eliminates manual server checks and error guessing, reducing human overhead.
Rubene R.
Unmatched Observability with Pricing Caveats
Reviewed on Sep 29, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I rely on Datadog as my primary all-in-one observability platform every single day. Out of all the modules built into the platform, I find the APM distributed tracing combined with the log explorer to be the most invaluable feature set for my daily workflow.
What do you dislike about the product?
My biggest frustration with Datadog comes down to its pricing model and how fast ingestion costs can spiral completely out of control if you aren't hypervigilant.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Datadog eliminates guesswork during production incidents and saves time by allowing trace of user requests across microservices seamlessly.