Datadog is a cloud monitoring and security platform that brings infrastructure metrics, application traces, logs, real user and synthetic monitoring, database monitoring, CI visibility and security products (code, cloud and SIEM) into one service with shared dashboards, alerting and more than 1,000 built-in integrations. Each product is billed separately, mostly per host, per GB or per million events.
Datadog collects telemetry from hosts, containers, Kubernetes, serverless functions, cloud providers and applications, and correlates metrics, traces and logs in dashboards and monitors. Product areas include Infrastructure Monitoring, APM with Continuous Profiler, Log Management with Observability Pipelines, Database and Data Streams Monitoring, Real User Monitoring and Session Replay, Synthetic Monitoring, CI Visibility and Test Optimization, Feature Flags, Incident Management, and security products for code, cloud workloads and SIEM. AI features (Bits AI) and agent observability are also offered.
It suits engineering, SRE, platform and security teams running production systems on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or Oracle Cloud who want one vendor across observability and security. Integrations cover cloud services, container platforms, databases, message queues and identity tools.
Pricing is per product and usage-based: Infrastructure and APM are priced per host per month with lower rates on annual commitment than on-demand, logs are priced per ingested GB plus per million indexed events by retention, and many other products have their own meters and overage rates. The Free Infrastructure tier covers up to 5 hosts with 1-day metric retention. Because most meters are additive, total cost depends on the mix of products and data volume.
Free plan available; usage-based pricing
Free
Limits: Up to 5 hosts; 1-day metric retention
Currency inferred from the US pricing page (shown as $ only).
| Item | Rate | Details | Source and check date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure, Pro (annual) | USD 15 per host per month, starting price, billed annually per month, billed annually | Annual billing; on-demand rate is $18 per host per monthCurrency inferred from the US pricing page (shown as $ only). Shown as a starting price. | Source for Infrastructure, Pro (annual) (opens in a new tab)Checked October 24, 2026 |
| Infrastructure, Enterprise (annual) | USD 23 per host per month, starting price, billed annually per month, billed annually | Annual billing; on-demand rate is $27 per host per monthCurrency inferred from the US pricing page (shown as $ only). Shown as a starting price. | Source for Infrastructure, Enterprise (annual) (opens in a new tab)Checked October 24, 2026 |
| APM (annual) | USD 31 per host per month, starting price, billed annually per month, billed annually | Annual billing with Infrastructure Monitoring attached; on-demand rate is $36 per host per monthCurrency inferred from the US pricing page (shown as $ only). APM Pro ($35 annual / $42 on-demand) and APM Enterprise ($40 / $48) tiers are also listed but not recorded as separate rows. | Source for APM (annual) (opens in a new tab)Checked October 24, 2026 |
| Log Management, ingest | USD 0.10 per ingested or scanned GB | Same rate listed for annual and on-demand billingCurrency inferred from the US pricing page (shown as $ only). | Source for Log Management, ingest (opens in a new tab)Checked October 24, 2026 |
| Log Management, Standard Indexing 15-day retention (annual) | USD 1.70 per million indexed log events per month, 15-day retention, billed annually per month, billed annually | Annual billing; on-demand rate is $2.55 per million events per monthCurrency inferred from the US pricing page (shown as $ only). Flex Storage ($0.05 per million events stored per month annual) and Flex Logs Starter ($0.60) are also listed but not recorded as separate rows. | Source for Log Management, Standard Indexing 15-day retention (annual) (opens in a new tab)Checked October 24, 2026 |
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Engineering, SRE, platform and security teams operating cloud or hybrid production systems who want metrics, traces, logs, user monitoring and security findings in one platform and can manage usage-based, per-product billing.
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