Datadog — Modern cloud-scale monitoring, log management, APM, and observability platform

Datadog unifies metrics, distributed application traces, server logs, and security telemetry for high-traffic cloud infrastructure.

About Datadog

Datadog is the premier observability platform for cloud-scale applications. Used by thousands of enterprises, it monitors servers, cloud databases, microservice traces, Kubernetes clusters, and user real-time experience metrics in a unified dashboard.

Key features

  • Infrastructure Monitoring — Monitor servers, containers, and cloud instances across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
  • Distributed APM Traces — Trace end-to-end user requests across microservices down to individual database queries.
  • Log Management & Search — Ingest, parse, and analyze terabytes of operational application logs with zero index friction.

Pricing

Pricing model: Free Trial.

  • Free Trial — $0 — 14-day full access, All infrastructure agents, Log management
  • Pro Plan —
    5 / month — Host monitoring, 18-month metric retention, Out-of-the-box alerts
  • Enterprise —
3 / month — Machine learning anomaly detection, Custom roles, Live process monitoring

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Platforms

Web, Linux, Mac, Windows

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