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Datadog

Warehouse quality monitoring and job monitoring inside Datadog, built on Metaplane

Overview

Datadog, a Nasdaq-listed observability company based in New York, reported revenue of US$3.43 billion for 2025, up from US$2.68 billion in 2024[9]. Its network monitoring portfolio has several parts. Cloud Network Monitoring maps traffic between microservices and between cloud and on-premises endpoints, visualises hop-by-hop paths with latency and packet loss, identifies top talkers for cost optimisation and flags DNS traffic to suspicious domains[8]. Network Device Monitoring covers physical and virtual devices from Cisco, Meraki, Juniper, F5, Arista, Aruba and others via SNMP, traps, APIs, NetFlow and syslog, with auto-discovery, topology maps, anomaly detection and bandwidth forecasting[8]. NetFlow monitoring supports NetFlow v5 and v9, IPFIX, sFlow and jFlow[8].

Datadog’s strength is correlation: network metrics sit next to host, application and log data in the same SaaS platform, so engineers can trace a slow service to a congested interface[8].

Pricing is modular: Cloud Network Monitoring costs US$5 per host per month billed annually and Network Device Monitoring US$7 per device per month, with higher month-to-month and on-demand rates; these usually sit on top of Infrastructure Pro at US$15 per host per month annually[7]. Costs can therefore escalate as more products and hosts are added.

What Datadog does

  • Infrastructure, APM, logs, RUM and synthetics on one agent
  • Flex Logs tiers for low-cost long retention
  • Per-host APM with Pro and Enterprise variants
  • Free tier for up to five Basic hosts
  • Unified tagging across metrics, traces and logs
  • Distributed tracing with per-host agents
  • Trace, log, metric and RUM correlation
  • Continuous Profiler in APM Enterprise

Datadog pricing

Infrastructure Pro from US$15/host/month (annual) or US$18 on demand; Enterprise from US$23 (annual) or US$27. APM with infrastructure from US$31/host/month (annual), APM Pro from US$35, APM Enterprise from US$40. Log ingest from US$0.10/GB; Standard indexing (15-day retention) US$1.70 per million events (annual) or US$2.55 on demand; Flex Storage US$0.05 per million events stored. Free tier: up to five Basic hosts with one-day metric retention.

Datadog strengths and limitations

Strengths

  • Very broad product coverage on one agent
  • Transparent published rate card
  • Strong correlation between signals via shared tags
  • Flexible log tiers separate ingestion from indexing
  • Single agent and console for traces, metrics, logs and RUM
  • Published per-unit list prices for every product

Limitations

  • Many independent meters make bills hard to forecast
  • Log indexing priced per million events, on top of ingest
  • Basic-host pricing is not published
  • Enterprise-tier features require higher per-host rates
  • Multiple meters (hosts, ingested GB, indexed spans) make costs hard to forecast
  • Profiling and data-streams features require higher APM tiers

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