Datadog

Datadog provides a cloud monitoring, observability and security platform for organizations running applications across distributed technology environments. Its software brings metrics, traces, events and logs together so development, operations and security teams can investigate performance, understand system behavior and respond to incidents from a shared view of their infrastructure and applications.

Founded in June 2010 by Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc, former colleagues at Wireless Generation, the company began by addressing the operational gap between systems administrators and software developers. It launched its cloud-scale infrastructure monitoring service in 2012, initially aggregating data from Amazon Web Services and traditional on-premises servers. The business subsequently expanded into a broader suite covering application performance, user experience, security and operational troubleshooting.

Platform capabilities

Datadog combines infrastructure monitoring with application performance monitoring and distributed tracing, log analytics, database monitoring and network performance monitoring. Real User Monitoring and Session Replay help teams examine application behavior from the user's perspective, while synthetic monitoring and API testing support checks of digital services. Continuous profiling and CI/CD capabilities extend its coverage into software delivery and application optimization.

Its security products include Cloud Security Management, application security and Cloud SIEM. Automated anomaly detection and root cause analysis support incident investigation, while generative AI assistance helps teams query telemetry and work through operational problems. Dedicated LLM Observability and cloud cost management capabilities broaden the platform's coverage of modern cloud workloads.

Development and reach

Application Performance Monitoring joined the platform in 2017, followed by Log Management in 2018. Network Performance Monitoring and Real User Monitoring followed in 2019, with cloud security offerings expanding during 2020–2021. This progression reflects the company's development from infrastructure monitoring into a multi-product observability and security business.

Headquartered in New York City, Datadog has an international engineering, commercial and customer support presence. It serves customers across cloud computing, financial services, digital retail, media and gaming, healthcare, telecommunications and public-sector IT.