Datadog

About Datadog

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Datadog

All products by Datadog reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

DatadogAI DevOps

Unified monitoring and observability for cloud-scale infrastructure

From $0.057.3/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Datadog

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Datadog's product on their own terms. They disagreed by 3.1 points — The Skeptic was the hardest to convince, The Decision Maker the most positive.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Datadog competes with, and how they differ.

Dynatrace7.6/10

AI-native full-stack observability platform built around its Davis causal-AI engine for automated root-cause analysis and OneAgent auto-instrumentation; skews toward large enterprise contracts versus Datadog's broader self-serve, usage-metered SaaS model.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

New Relic8.1/10

Direct APM/observability competitor that was taken private in a $6.5B all-cash deal by Francisco Partners and TPG (completed November 2023), removing the public-market scrutiny that constrains publicly-traded Datadog.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Splunk8.0/10

Originated in machine-data and log analytics rather than infrastructure monitoring, and became a Cisco subsidiary after a $28B all-cash acquisition completed March 2024; overlaps with Datadog mainly in log management and SIEM/security analytics rather than full-stack APM.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Elastic7.5/10

Built on the open-source Elastic (ELK) Stack, giving customers a self-managed or Elastic Cloud deployment option that Datadog's fully-managed SaaS-only model does not offer; competes mainly in log analytics and search-driven observability rather than broad APM.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Grafana Labs8.5/10

Assembles its stack (Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir) from components that can be self-hosted for free, undercutting Datadog on cost for teams willing to run their own infrastructure, though it trails Datadog's breadth of out-of-the-box integrations.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Honeycomb.io8.5/10

Narrower, developer-first observability tool built around high-cardinality event tracing rather than Datadog's broad multi-product platform spanning APM, infrastructure, logs and security.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Datadog's history, with sources.

1. Jun 30, 2026Acquisition

   Acquired Adaptive ML

   Datadog acquired Adaptive ML, a frontier-AI startup building a Reinforcement Learning Operations (RLOps) platform, to strengthen Datadog AI Research's work on world models and agentic LLM post-training.

   datadoghq.com
2. May 5, 2025Acquisition

   Acquired Eppo

   Datadog acquired Eppo, a feature-flagging and experimentation platform, to combine observability with the ability to safely deploy and measure the impact of code changes.

   datadoghq.com
3. Apr 17, 2023Acquisition

   Acquired Codiga

   Datadog acquired Codiga, a static code analysis tool that checks code for errors and security issues in real time across the development lifecycle.

   datadoghq.com
4. Nov 3, 2022Acquisition

   Acquired Cloudcraft

   Datadog acquired Cloudcraft, which auto-generates and live-updates cloud architecture diagrams by analyzing service relationships within a customer's AWS environment.

   datadoghq.com
5. Nov 4, 2021Acquisition

   Completed acquisition of Ozcode

   Datadog acquired Ozcode, a live-debugging solution providing code-level observability in production environments without needing to reproduce issues pre-production.

   datadoghq.com
6. Apr 12, 2021Acquisition

   Completed acquisition of Sqreen

   Datadog completed its acquisition of Sqreen, a SaaS-based application security platform that detects, blocks and responds to application-level attacks.

   datadoghq.com
7. Sep 19, 2019Milestone

   IPO -- priced at $27/share, began trading on Nasdaq as DDOG

   Datadog priced its IPO at $27.00 per share (24,000,000 Class A shares) and began trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker DDOG on September 19, 2019.

   investors.datadoghq.com
8. Jan 12, 2016Funding

   Series D -- $94.5M led by ICONIQ Capital

   Datadog raised an oversubscribed $94.5 million Series D led by ICONIQ Capital, with Index Ventures, OpenView Venture Partners, Amplify Partners and Contour Ventures also participating; press coverage put cumulative funding at just under $148 million.

   techcrunch.com
9. Jan 28, 2015Funding

   Series C -- $31M led by Index Ventures

   Datadog raised $31 million in Series C funding led by Index Ventures with RTP Ventures and OpenView Venture Partners participating, bringing total raised to $53.4 million at the time.

   techcrunch.com
10. Feb 7, 2014Funding

    Series B -- $15M led by OpenView Venture Partners

    Datadog closed a $15 million Series B led by OpenView Venture Partners, with follow-on from Index Ventures, RTP Ventures, Amplify Partners, IA Ventures and Contour Ventures.

    datacenterknowledge.com
11. Nov 20, 2012Funding

    Series A -- $6.2M co-led by Index Ventures and RTP Ventures

    Datadog raised a $6.2 million Series A round co-led by Index Ventures and RTP Ventures, with participation from IA Ventures, Amplify Partners, Contour Ventures and NYCSeed.

    thenextweb.com
12. June 2010Founded

    Datadog incorporated in Delaware

    Olivier Pomel and Alexis Le Quoc incorporated Datadog in Delaware in June 2010, later headquartered in New York City.

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