About

Datadog is a cloud monitoring and security platform that collects metrics, traces, logs, events, and other telemetry from infrastructure, applications, databases, containers, serverless workloads, and user sessions. It supports products such as Infrastructure Monitoring, APM, Log Management, Network Monitoring, RUM, Synthetic Monitoring, Cloud SIEM, Cloud Security, and related workflow and collaboration features.

The platform is used to correlate observability and security data across a stack, with pricing and feature sets that vary by product. The pricing page shows a free Infrastructure plan with up to 5 hosts and 1-day metric retention, plus many paid products with product-specific limits, retention windows, and usage-based billing.

  • Infrastructure free plan with up to 5 hosts
  • 1-day metric retention on free infrastructure
  • Metrics, traces, logs, and events correlation
  • APM, logs, RUM, synthetics, and security products
  • Usage-based pricing across hosts, committers, and events
  • 15-month retention on several paid tiers

What's included in the free tier

  • 1-day metric retention for Infrastructure Free tier.
  • Up to 5 hosts monitored in Infrastructure Free tier.
  • Free Datadog Cost Visibility limited to Datadog costs only.
  • Usage below 1 million monthly flag configuration requests included at no cost for Feature Flags.