Datadog
Cloud-scale monitoring and observability platform for infrastructure, applications, and logs.
Monitoring
Free tier
Overview
Datadog is a comprehensive cloud monitoring platform that unifies infrastructure metrics, application performance monitoring (APM), log management, real user monitoring, and security under one roof. It supports 750+ integrations and is the go-to choice for large engineering teams.
The free tier covers up to 5 hosts with basic metrics. Infrastructure monitoring starts at $15/host/month, with APM, logs, and other modules priced separately. Total cost scales quickly for larger deployments.
Strengths
- Most comprehensive monitoring platform available
- 750+ integrations covering virtually every technology
- Powerful dashboards and alerting with anomaly detection
- Unified view of infrastructure, APM, logs, and security
Weaknesses
- Pricing is complex and gets very expensive at scale
- Each module (APM, logs, RUM) billed separately
- Can be overwhelming to configure and navigate
- Vendor lock-in with proprietary query language
Pricing estimate
$150
/month
$1800/year
Free for up to 5 hosts with basic metrics
Quick info
- Category
- Monitoring
- Starting price
- $15/host/mo
- Free tier
- Yes — Free for up to 5 hosts with basic metrics
- Open source
- No
- Best for
- Enterprise
- Founded
- 2010
Last updated 2026-04-12
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