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Datadog, Inc. is an American company that provides an observability service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services, through a SaaS-based data analytics platform. Founded and headquartered in New York City, the company is a publicly traded entity on the Nasdaq stock exchange.

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History

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Founding years

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Datadog was founded in New York City in 2010[2] by Olivier Pomel[3] and Alexis Lê-Quôc,[4] who met while undergraduates at Ecole Centrale Paris, and later worked together for 9 years at Wireless Generation. After Wireless Generation was acquired by NewsCorp, the two set out to create a product that would reduce the friction they experienced between developer and systems administration teams, who were often working at cross-purposes.[citation needed]

They built Datadog to be a cloud infrastructure monitoring service, with dashboards, alerting, and visualizations of metrics. As cloud adoption increased, Datadog grew rapidly and expanded its product offerings to cover service providers including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Red Hat OpenShift, VMware, and OpenStack.[5]

Company growth

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In 2015, Datadog opened a research and development office in Paris.[6]

Datadog at Google Cloud Summit

In 2016, Datadog moved its New York City headquarters to a full floor of the New York Times Building to support its growing team, which doubled over the course of the year.[7] Datadog announced the beta-release of Application Performance Monitoring in 2016, offering for the first time a full-stack monitoring solution.

As of 2024, the company had approximately 6,500 employees in 33 countries, with offices in New York, Boston, Denver, San Francisco, Paris, Dublin, Amsterdam, Sydney, Tokyo, and Singapore. Around 59% of employees are located in the U.S.[1]

Prior to Datadog's initial public offering (IPO) in September 2019, the company was offered over $7 billion to be acquired by Cisco, but rejected it in favor of going public.[8]

Acquisitions

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A timeline of acquisitions by Datadog can be found in the table below.

List of acquisitions by Datadog over time
Date Acquisition Added value Reference
February 2015 Mortar Data Ties analytics to data monitoring [9]
September 2017 Logmatic Platform-agnostic service for querying and visualizing logs to monitor and troubleshoot online services [10]
February 2019 Madumbo AI-based application testing platform [11][12]
August 2020 Undefined Labs Testing and observability for developer workflows [13]
February 2021 Sqreen Application security platform [14]
August 2021 Timber Vendor agnostic, high-performance data pipeline [15]
November 2021 Ozcode Live debugging solution with code-level visibility into production environments [16]
May 2022 HDIV Security testing software [17][18]
August 2022 Seekret API observability platform [19]
October 2022 CoScreen Real-time collaboration [20]
November 2022 Cloudcraft Infrastructure modeling with dynamic architecture diagram creation [21]
April 2023 Codiga Provides static code analysis across the development lifecycle [22][23]
November 2023 Actiondesk Cloud-based spreadsheet application that integrates with live data sources for cross-cloud data access [24]
April 2025 Metaplane AI-powered data observability [25]
June 2025 Eppo Experimentation infrastructure with a modern data stack, AI features, and the latest in causal inference literature [26]

Products

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Datadog offers a range of monitoring services to support engineering teams in effectively managing their cloud or hybrid environments. These services include Infrastructure Monitoring,[27] Network Performance Monitoring,[28] Network Device Monitoring, Serverless Monitoring, and Cloud Cost Management to help businesses maintain the reliability, performance, and cost-effectiveness of their infrastructure and applications.[citation needed]

Technology

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Datadog high-level architecture

Datadog uses a Go-based agent, rewritten from scratch since its major version 6.0.0 released on February 28, 2018. It was formerly Python-based, forked from the original created in 2009 by David Mytton for Server Density (previously called Boxed Ice). Its backend is built using a number of open and closed source technologies including D3, Apache Cassandra, Kafka, PostgreSQL, etc.[29]

In 2014, Datadog support was broadened to multiple cloud service providers including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Red Hat OpenShift. As of October 2024, the company supports over 750 integrations.[30]

Funding

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In 2010, Datadog launched with a seed round, with participation by NYC Seed, Contour Venture Partners, IA Ventures, Jerry Neumann and Alex Payne, among others. In 2012, it raised a $6.2 million Series A round co-led by Index Ventures and RTP Ventures.[31] In 2014, Datadog raised a $15 million Series B round led by OpenView Venture Partners,[32] followed by a $31 million Series C round led by Index Ventures in 2015.[33] Datadog opened 2016 with a $94.5 million Series D round led by ICONIQ Capital,[34] one of the largest funding rounds for a New York City company during that year.[35]

Datadog went public via an IPO on the Nasdaq exchange on September 19, 2019, selling 24 million shares and raising $648 million, valuing the company at $8.7 billion.[36][37] Datadog's stock price rose by approximately 37% on its first day of trading, and the company's market capitalization reached nearly $10 billion by the end of its first trading day.[36][38]

Datadog was added to the S&P 500 Index in July 2025.[39]

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Datadog, Inc. is a cloud-native and platform that provides monitoring, , and capabilities for , applications, logs, and more, enabling developers, IT operations teams, and business users to gain unified visibility across complex environments. Founded in 2010 by Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc, who previously worked together at Wireless Generation, the company was established in to address the challenges of monitoring distributed systems in the growing era. Pomel serves as CEO and co-founder, while Lê-Quôc is the CTO and co-founder, bringing complementary expertise in and systems. Datadog's platform integrates data from servers, containers, databases, third-party services, and cloud providers, including through a strategic collaboration agreement with AWS signed on December 3, 2025, which enhances cloud-scale monitoring, observability, security, and analytics for managing complex, high-growth environments, offering real-time metrics, traces, and logs to support (APM), , and detection. It supports over 1,000 integrations and uses AI-powered features for and root cause analysis, helping organizations optimize performance and reduce downtime. Headquartered in with global offices, Datadog went public on September 19, 2019, listing on the Global Select Market under the ticker symbol "DDOG," and joined the Index in July 2025. As of September 2025, the company employs over 6,500 people worldwide and serves approximately 32,000 customers, including many companies, with a focus on enabling through collaborative tools.

Overview

Company Profile

Datadog, Inc. is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company specializing in and security platforms for cloud applications. It was founded in 2010 in by Olivier Pomel, who serves as CEO, and Alexis Lê-Quôc, the CTO; the two co-founders met as undergraduates at , where they both earned master's degrees in . Prior to founding Datadog, Pomel and Lê-Quôc worked together at Wireless Generation, where Pomel served as Vice President of Technology, developing data systems for K-12 teachers. The company is headquartered in and maintains global offices in locations including , , , and others to support its international operations. Datadog went public in 2019 through an (IPO) on the stock exchange under the DDOG, raising approximately $648 million and achieving a valuation of $7.8 billion at the time, and was added to the index in July 2025. As of September 30, 2025, Datadog employed more than 6,500 people worldwide and served approximately 32,000 customers, including numerous companies such as , Shell, and . Under Pomel's leadership, Datadog has scaled rapidly with the rise of cloud-native architectures, serving enterprises and high-growth startups alike. Its core business revolves around a unified SaaS platform that provides monitoring, , and solutions for cloud-scale applications, unifying data from servers, applications, logs, and more in a developer-friendly manner, enabling organizations to manage complex IT infrastructures effectively.

Mission and Core Offerings

Datadog's mission is to build the observability and security platform for developers, IT operations teams, and business users in the cloud age, providing unified, real-time insights to drive collaboration and resolve issues across complex environments. This focus aims to break down silos between development, operations, security, and business teams while combating the increasing complexity of cloud infrastructures. The company's target users include DevOps teams, site reliability engineers (SREs), and security professionals, serving organizations in diverse sectors such as technology, finance, retail, and healthcare. At its core, Datadog offers a full-stack platform that integrates monitoring, application monitoring, , and capabilities to deliver comprehensive into cloud-scale systems. This platform emphasizes real-time data analysis and automation to enable proactive issue detection and resolution, helping users maintain reliability in dynamic environments. The unique value of Datadog lies in its unified approach, which reduces tool sprawl by consolidating multiple functions into a single, scalable platform optimized for hybrid and multi-cloud setups. This design supports seamless integration across diverse infrastructures, allowing teams to scale without fragmented tooling. In recent developments, the platform has expanded to accommodate AI-driven workloads, enhancing monitoring for GPU resources and pipelines.

History

Founding and Early Development

Datadog was founded in June 2010 in by Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc, two French engineers who had met as undergraduates at . Prior to starting the company, Pomel held early engineering roles at IBM Research and internet startups, followed by serving as Vice President of Technology at Wireless Generation, an firm, where he developed data systems to support K-12 teachers and students. Lê-Quôc, meanwhile, held the role of Director of Operations at the same company, where he assembled teams and built scalable infrastructure to serve millions of users. The inspiration for Datadog stemmed from the founders' frustrations at Wireless Generation, where monitoring complex software systems relied on fragmented, legacy tools that created between development and operations teams, complicating and . Pomel and Lê-Quôc anticipated the shift to distributed, containerized infrastructure and envisioned a unified SaaS platform that would provide real-time visibility into cloud infrastructure, enabling integration from the outset and addressing the need for monitoring across servers, applications, logs, and security. This need became particularly acute as companies began migrating to dynamic cloud environments in the early , outpacing traditional monitoring solutions. Datadog's initial release in focused on aggregating and visualizing metrics from servers and databases, offering a lightweight agent to collect data across hybrid environments. The platform quickly attracted early adopters from the burgeoning tech ecosystem, including startups participating in accelerators like SeedStart, where the founders coded the first prototypes during the summer of 2010 at NYU's space. Facing a nascent cloud market, Datadog was bootstrapped in its earliest days by the founders, who handled much of the initial engineering and operations themselves. In July 2010, the company raised its first seed funding round, providing the resources to refine its agent-based architecture, which installs on hosts to gather metrics without heavy reliance on custom scripts or polling. These early challenges included limited investor interest in monitoring and from on-premises tools, but the focus on helped establish a foothold among agile NYC startups navigating rapid growth.

Growth and Public Listing

Datadog's growth accelerated in the mid-2010s following its Series B funding round of $15 million in February 2014, led by Index Ventures and OpenView Venture Partners, which enabled the company to enhance its monitoring platform for scalable cloud infrastructure and expand its engineering, sales, and marketing teams in key U.S. locations like New York and . This investment supported product enhancements, including integrations with additional cloud providers such as and , laying the groundwork for broader adoption. The subsequent Series C round of $31 million in January 2015, led by RTP Global with participation from prior investors, further fueled expansion by growing engineering, sales, and marketing teams to meet surging demand and accelerating development of new monitoring features across diverse cloud environments. These funds also facilitated initial international efforts, including the opening of a research and development office in that year, contributing to product diversification and global talent acquisition. The company's trajectory demonstrated robust scaling, growing from approximately $10 million in annual recurring (ARR) in to $2.68 billion in by 2024, reflecting sustained demand for its solutions amid the rise of hybrid and multi-cloud architectures. In the third quarter of 2025, reached $885.7 million, marking 28% year-over-year growth and underscoring continued momentum in enterprise . Parallel to this, Datadog's customer base expanded significantly from over 1,000 in to more than 30,500 by mid-2025, encompassing a diverse range of organizations including major enterprises like , , and that rely on its platform for real-time infrastructure monitoring. This growth was driven by the platform's ability to unify metrics, logs, and traces, attracting customers scaling complex cloud-native applications. Datadog went public in September 2019 with an on the under the ticker DDOG, raising $648 million by pricing shares at $27 each, which valued the company at approximately $7.8 billion. Post-IPO, the stock experienced strong performance, surging to highs above $190 per share by 2021 amid the boom, as investors recognized Datadog's pivotal role in for distributed systems. By 2025, Datadog had deepened its expansion into AI observability, introducing AI-powered features for automated root cause analysis and predictive insights integrated across its unified platform, enhancing visibility into generative AI workloads. The company also gained market share in through strengthened integrations and localized support, capitalizing on regional adoption trends to serve a growing cohort of international enterprises.

Key Acquisitions

Datadog has completed a total of 14 acquisitions as of September 2025, focusing primarily on enhancing capabilities in , , and (AI). No additional acquisitions were made between June and November 2025, maintaining the total at 14. These moves have expanded the company's platform to address evolving needs in cloud-native environments, where real-time data processing, threat detection, and AI-driven insights are critical. Early acquisitions, such as the 2017 purchase of Logmatic.io, a Paris-based log analytics platform, strengthened Datadog's core monitoring offerings by integrating advanced log processing and machine learning-based analytics into its infrastructure monitoring tools. This acquisition enabled users to query and visualize logs more efficiently, filling a gap in full-stack at a time when Datadog was building its foundational services. A significant wave of acquisitions from 2021 to 2025 shifted toward and AI to meet the demands of complex, distributed systems. In 2021, Datadog acquired Timber Technologies, the developers of Vector, a high-performance, open-source data pipeline, which enhanced real-time log collection, transformation, and routing capabilities across hybrid environments. The integration of Vector into Datadog's platform improved data ingestion efficiency, allowing for faster troubleshooting in large-scale deployments without . That same year, the acquisition of Sqreen, a SaaS-based platform, bolstered runtime protection features, enabling proactive detection and blocking of threats in production applications. Sqreen's tools were merged with Datadog's SIEM to provide unified monitoring for DevSecOps workflows. More recent deals in 2025 emphasized AI and data reliability amid the rise of AI-powered applications. The April acquisition of Metaplane, an AI-driven data platform, introduced automated and column-level lineage tracking to prevent issues in pipelines feeding AI models. This move extended Datadog's into data teams, supporting reliable AI system development by integrating Metaplane's alerts with existing monitoring dashboards. In May, Datadog acquired Eppo, a feature flagging and experimentation platform that operates within data warehouses, adding capabilities for controlled rollouts and . Eppo's integration unified experimentation analytics with Datadog's product intelligence tools, streamlining how teams measure feature impacts without switching platforms.

Products and Services

Monitoring and Observability Tools

Datadog provides cloud-scale monitoring, observability, security, and analytics platforms for managing complex, high-growth environments, including through key partnerships such as its strategic collaboration with AWS that enhances capabilities in AI, observability, and security. Datadog's monitoring and tools provide comprehensive visibility into , applications, networks, and user experiences, enabling teams to detect issues proactively and maintain system reliability across dynamic environments. These tools collect and analyze metrics, traces, logs, and in real time, offering unified dashboards for and alerting. By integrating data from diverse sources, they support end-to-end without requiring extensive custom instrumentation.

Infrastructure Monitoring

Datadog's Infrastructure Monitoring delivers real-time metrics on servers, containers, and environments, tracking key indicators such as CPU usage, consumption, disk I/O, and . It supports monitoring of hosts, virtual machines, and containerized workloads, providing visualizations like heatmaps and host maps to identify bottlenecks at a glance. The tool integrates seamlessly with major cloud providers, including AWS for services like EC2 and , and Azure for resources such as Virtual Machines and Container Instances, automatically scaling to capture performance data without manual configuration. This enables teams to monitor hybrid, multi-cloud, and on-premises setups from a single platform, correlating infrastructure events with application metrics for faster root cause analysis.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

Datadog APM offers distributed tracing to map request flows from user interfaces through backend services and databases, capturing latency, rates, and throughput at each span. It employs AI-powered to link traces with metrics, logs, and other signals, facilitating rapid identification of degradation in architectures. Code profiling in APM provides granular insights into execution time and resource usage per function or line of code, supporting languages like , Python, and to pinpoint inefficient routines. Service maps visualize dependencies and health across services, highlighting bottlenecks and enabling proactive optimization in distributed systems.

Log Management

Datadog's Log Management facilitates centralized collection of logs from applications, infrastructure, and third-party services via agents or direct integrations, supporting formats like for automatic parsing. The Grok Parser processes unstructured logs into searchable attributes, allowing faceted queries and full-text searches in the Log Explorer for efficient data retrieval. Pattern detection automatically clusters logs into groups based on common structures, with the Pattern Inspector revealing underlying values to assess anomalies and trends. This integration with metrics and traces aids in contextual , such as linking log events to alerts for streamlined investigations.

Network Monitoring

Network Monitoring in Datadog analyzes traffic flows using protocols like , sFlow, and IPFIX, providing visibility into communication between hosts, services, and applications across cloud and on-premises networks. It generates maps to trace data paths and correlates flows with host metrics for comprehensive insights. Anomaly detection identifies unusual patterns, such as spikes in bandwidth or suspicious DNS queries, through real-time alerting and to predict capacity needs. This helps isolate network-related issues impacting services, reducing mean time to resolution in complex environments.

Synthetic Monitoring

Synthetic Monitoring simulates user interactions to test end-to-end experiences, using checks for endpoint validation across protocols like , , and TCP, and browser tests to mimic navigation flows with screenshots and assertions. Tests run from global locations to replicate real-world conditions, measuring response times, , and rates. These proactive checks integrate with other data, alerting on deviations before they affect users and providing breakdowns of network and metrics for optimization. In practice, these tools support critical use cases such as outages by correlating metrics, traces, and logs to isolate failures, and through historical trend analysis and forecasting in scalable, dynamic infrastructures like clusters. For instance, during network disruptions, flow data and anomaly alerts enable rapid mitigation, while metrics inform scaling decisions.

Security and Analytics Solutions

Datadog's security solutions encompass a suite of tools designed to protect cloud-native environments by addressing vulnerabilities, ensuring compliance, and detecting threats in real time. Cloud Security Management employs agentless scanning to assess entire infrastructures for vulnerabilities within minutes, enabling organizations to create comprehensive programs from pipelines to production resources. This includes continuous detection of software vulnerabilities across hosts, containers, and cloud services, with prioritization based on exploitability and business impact. Compliance monitoring is facilitated through more than 1,000 out-of-the-box rules aligned with standards such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, and GDPR, helping teams pass audits by identifying misconfigurations and tracking posture scores against regulatory requirements. Datadog maintains SOC 2 Type II compliance for security, availability, and confidentiality, with attestation reports available through the Datadog Trust Center. The company undergoes regular penetration testing, including assessments in 2025, with summaries accessible via the Trust Center. Workload Protection complements these efforts by using in-kernel analysis to monitor file, network, and process activity across hosts and containers, detecting threats like or unauthorized access with both predefined and custom rules for real-time response. Application Security integrates runtime protection to safeguard web and serverless applications against exploits, including anomaly detection for attacks such as , , and remote code execution. It automatically discovers and assesses endpoints for risks, allowing teams to block specific IPs, users, or requests directly from the interface. The acquisition of Sqreen in 2021 enhanced these capabilities, incorporating Sqreen's runtime application protection to automate threat detection and blocking within production environments, thereby unifying with application monitoring. This approach reduces false positives by leveraging contextual data from traces and logs, enabling developers and teams to prioritize and remediate code-level vulnerabilities in open-source libraries and custom code using customized CVSS scores. For business-oriented insights, Datadog provides tools that extend beyond technical metrics to support non-technical stakeholders through customizable dashboards and alerting mechanisms. Business Monitoring allows the creation of tailored dashboards that visualize key indicators, objectives (SLOs), and error budgets, facilitating collaboration between engineering, operations, and business teams. Alerting on SLOs, including burn rate notifications, proactively signals potential breaches, ensuring reliability goals are met without requiring deep technical expertise. Datadog Product Analytics provides tools for analyzing user behavior and product usage, extending business insights to product performance and customer journeys. Product Analytics includes Funnel Analysis to track conversion rates and identify bottlenecks in user journeys. Key features include building funnels via drag-and-drop with event combination and step-specific filters; analyzing drop-offs, time to convert, and trends over time; grouping data; multiple counting methods (unique/total); visualizations (funnel, timeseries, top list); and side panel for detailed insights linking to RUM, Error Tracking, and Session Replay. Database Monitoring offers specialized into query by capturing historical metrics, explain plans, and execution details to identify long-running or blocking queries, while also detecting indexing issues through automated recommendations to optimize fleet-wide . Replication status is tracked via metrics on database states, events, failovers, and connection health, preventing in distributed systems. Cloud Cost Management unifies cost data with , empowering engineers to optimize workloads by attributing spend to services, teams, or features and identifying inefficiencies like unused resources or over-provisioned instances. As of November 2025, it includes Storage Management, which provides granular visibility into across , , and Azure Blob Storage, with proactive on growth and access patterns, and targeted recommendations to eliminate unnecessary costs. Optimization recommendations provide actionable insights, such as rightsizing instances or eliminating idle commitments, often resulting in significant waste reduction across multi-cloud environments. Spend forecasting uses historical trends to project future costs against budgets, supporting FinOps practices by alerting on anomalies in expenditure patterns. Analytics features within these solutions enhance proactive management through machine learning-driven capabilities. Anomaly detection algorithms analyze metrics for deviations from historical baselines, accounting for trends and seasonality to minimize false alerts on resource usage or security events. Forecasting models predict future metric values, such as CPU utilization or threat volumes, using linear and seasonal methods to anticipate capacity needs and potential risks before they impact operations. As of June 2025, LLM Observability extends these capabilities to AI workloads, providing end-to-end tracing across large language model (LLM) applications and agents, monitoring inputs, outputs, latency, token usage, errors, and to optimize and secure AI development. These tools integrate briefly with core for holistic views of and business health.

Technology

Platform Architecture

Datadog's platform architecture is built around a distributed, scalable designed to handle massive volumes of from , applications, and services. At its core is an agent-based collection mechanism that ensures efficient, low-overhead gathering across diverse environments. The backend employs a combination of open-source and components for , storage, and , enabling real-time at petabyte scale. The frontend provides intuitive visualization tools, while reliability features emphasize isolation and to support multi-tenant operations. The Datadog Agent serves as the primary data collection layer, a lightweight software component written in Go and installed on hosts, containers, or serverless functions. This agent collects metrics, traces, and logs by running multiple processes, including a collector for gathering data from the host and integrations, and a forwarder for securely transmitting it to Datadog's backend over HTTPS. Its modular design allows for extensibility through custom checks and supports automatic instrumentation for languages like Go, Python, and Java, minimizing performance impact on monitored systems. The backend architecture is a scalable, distributed system optimized for high-throughput data handling. Ingestion occurs via , which acts as a for routing events deterministically to shards, ensuring reliable delivery and buffering during spikes. For storage, Datadog utilizes its proprietary system—a third-generation, time-series-oriented columnar store—for metrics, traces, and logs, built on commodity blob storage with for metadata management and deduplication. This setup supports petabyte-scale data volumes through decoupled compute and storage layers, including text search capabilities for logs and custom indexing techniques like time-bounded shard placements and to enable efficient querying across tenants. The pipeline follows an event-driven model, where incoming payloads from agents are processed asynchronously to achieve zero-downtime scaling and . Events flow through Kafka partitions for load balancing, followed by writers that persist to storage while updating metadata atomically; this guarantees exactly-once semantics even under failures or rebalances. Autoscaling mechanisms, such as the Pod Autoscaler, dynamically adjust resources based on ingestion rates, handling bursts without and supporting horizontal expansion across global data centers. On the frontend, Datadog provides a modern stack that supports dynamic user interfaces and customizable dashboards for responsive interactions and real-time updates. Visualizations offer flexible rendering of complex datasets like time-series metrics and service maps. Server-side rendering ensures efficient page generation and integration with backend APIs. This combination delivers high-performance views for users to explore and correlate data. Reliability is embedded through multi-tenant isolation, achieved via logical namespaces and dedicated storage tables per customer to prevent leakage and enable independent scaling. The platform maintains with redundant global , backed by features like automatic and consistent replication.

Integrations and AI Capabilities

Datadog supports over 1,000 native integrations that enable seamless connectivity with a wide array of platforms, tools, and applications. These include support for container orchestration systems like , providers such as AWS, continuous integration tools like Jenkins, and various databases, allowing users to ingest metrics, logs, and traces from diverse sources into a unified platform. The platform's Autodiscovery feature further enhances this by automatically detecting and configuring integrations for services in dynamic environments, such as containerized deployments, without manual intervention. To facilitate extensibility, Datadog provides a comprehensive HTTP API for programmatic access to metrics, logs, events, and other data, enabling custom integrations and automation workflows. Additionally, webhooks allow for real-time notifications from monitors and events to external services, while support for custom metrics permits users to submit bespoke KPIs via the DogStatsD library or API endpoints. Datadog incorporates AI and capabilities to automate analysis and provide actionable insights. Watchdog, the platform's AI engine, performs automated root cause analysis by identifying causal relationships across infrastructure and applications, mapping dependencies, and pinpointing issues like code changes or resource constraints. Bits AI serves as a generative AI copilot for , generating real-time summaries of incidents—including impact, contributing factors, and recommended actions—and auto-generating postmortems to streamline response coordination. In 2025, enhancements to Bits AI introduced domain-specific AI agents for development, , and teams to accelerate incident resolution. For predictive capabilities, Datadog employs -based forecasting models, such as the Forecasts Monitor, which uses linear and seasonal algorithms to predict metric trends and alert on potential issues like resource exhaustion before they occur. In recent developments, Datadog has expanded its AI focus to support monitoring of generative AI applications, particularly through LLM Observability, which traces end-to-end workflows for large models and AI agents, providing visibility into inputs, outputs, latency, token usage, errors, and risks. New 2025 features include AI Agent Monitoring, LLM Experiments for testing and optimizing models, and an AI Agents Console for centralized management. This includes features like execution flow visualization and experiment tracking to optimize AI stack performance and cost. Complementing this, the platform's leverages algorithms to identify deviations in metrics and logs from historical patterns, using dynamic thresholds to reduce false positives in rapidly scaling environments.

Business and Finance

Funding Rounds

Datadog's funding journey began with early investments that supported its initial product development as a cloud monitoring platform. In July 2010, the company secured an angel round of approximately $0.85 million to bootstrap operations following its founding by Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc. This was followed by a $1.5 million round in 2011 led by RTP Ventures, which enabled further refinement of its core infrastructure monitoring tools. The in November 2012 raised $6.2 million, co-led by Index Ventures and RTP Ventures, to accelerate product development and expand the engineering team amid growing demand for scalable IT monitoring solutions. This funding helped Datadog integrate with additional cloud services and build out its SaaS-based analytics capabilities. In February 2014, Datadog completed a $15 million Series B round led by OpenView Venture Partners, with participation from prior investors including Index Ventures and RTP Ventures. The capital was directed toward team expansion, particularly in sales and engineering, to support the platform's adoption by enterprises managing complex, multi-cloud environments. The Series C funding in January 2015 amounted to $31 million, led by Index Ventures, bringing total investment to over $53 million at that point. This round focused on international growth, including hiring for global sales and marketing teams and accelerating new product features for in dynamic infrastructures. Datadog's largest pre-IPO round was the oversubscribed Series D in January 2016, raising $94.5 million led by ICONIQ Capital, with participation from existing backers like Index Ventures, OpenView, and RTP Ventures. The funds were allocated to platform scaling, research and development of advanced monitoring tools, and expansion of operations across , , and the . Across these pre-IPO rounds from 2010 to 2016, Datadog raised approximately $147 million from key investors including Index Ventures, RTP Ventures, OpenView, and ICONIQ Capital, laying the foundation for its growth into a comprehensive . This capital facilitated key acquisitions and product innovations in the years leading to its public debut. Datadog went public in September 2019 through an (IPO) on the under the ticker DDOG, raising $648 million by selling 24 million shares at $27 each, which valued the company at around $7.8 billion. Post-IPO, in 2025, Datadog facilitated a $380 million secondary sale primarily for employee , allowing early stakeholders and team members to realize gains without issuing new shares.
RoundDateAmountLead InvestorsPurpose
Seed (Angel)July 2010$0.85MAngel investorsInitial operations and prototyping
Seed2011$1.5MRTP VenturesCore tool development
Series ANovember 2012$6.2MIndex Ventures, RTP VenturesProduct acceleration and engineering
Series BFebruary 2014$15MOpenView Venture PartnersTeam expansion
Series CJanuary 2015$31MIndex VenturesInternational growth and new features
Series DJanuary 2016$94.5MICONIQ CapitalPlatform scaling and global R&D
IPOSeptember 2019$648MN/A (Public market)Public listing and growth capital
SecondaryJuly 2025$380MN/A (Secondary sale)Employee liquidity

Financial Performance and Market Position

Datadog reported full-year revenue of $2.68 billion for , reflecting a 26% increase year-over-year driven by strong demand for its and platforms. For , the company guided revenue between $3.386 billion and $3.390 billion, implying approximately 26% growth from levels, supported by expansion among large enterprise customers and AI-related workloads. In the third quarter of alone, revenue reached $886 million, up 28% year-over-year. The company demonstrated improving profitability, generating $251 million in and $214 million in during Q3 2025, with free cash flow margins reaching 24%. These figures highlight Datadog's ability to convert revenue growth into sustainable cash generation amid investments in . As of November 2025, Datadog's stood at approximately $66.7 billion, up significantly from its post-IPO valuation of around $10 billion in 2019 and near its historical peak of over $60 billion achieved in late 2021 during heightened market enthusiasm for cloud software. In July 2025, Datadog joined the index, further solidifying its market position. This valuation reflects ongoing volatility in the AI and technology sectors but underscores investor confidence in Datadog's growth trajectory. Datadog maintains a leading position in the observability market, recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms for the fifth consecutive year, praised for its completeness of vision and ability to execute. Key competitors include Dynatrace, New Relic, and Splunk (acquired by Cisco), with Datadog differentiating through its unified platform and extensive integrations. However, the company faces challenges such as high research and development expenses, which accounted for about 43% of 2024 revenue as it invests heavily in AI capabilities, and risks from customer concentration, where a small number of large clients contribute disproportionately to revenue, potentially exposing it to churn volatility.

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