About Datadog
Datadog provides infrastructure monitoring, APM, log management, and security monitoring in a single platform. Used by thousands of enterprises.
Key Features
- Infrastructure monitoring
- APM and tracing
- Log management
- 700+ integrations
- Anomaly detection
- Security monitoring
Datadog has become the dominant observability platform by unifying metrics, traces, logs, and security monitoring under a single pane of glass. Its agent-based architecture collects data from servers, containers, databases, and cloud services with over 700 integrations. The APM product traces requests across distributed systems, while the log management pipeline handles petabytes of data. Datadog's dashboards and alerting are powerful, and its anomaly detection uses machine learning to surface issues before they become incidents. The tradeoff is cost — Datadog pricing can escalate quickly at scale, which has driven some teams to open-source alternatives.