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
Free Tier Value
The page text only exposes free-tier caps, not concrete paid-plan prices, so the paid plans are best treated as usage-based/contact-sales offerings rather than fixed monthly subscriptions. The free-tier bullets show capped recurring value: Infrastructure Free tier includes up to 5 hosts and 1-day metric retention, Feature Flags includes under 1 million monthly configuration requests, and Datadog Cost Visibility is limited to Datadog costs only. Because no explicit paid pricing or trial/credit is shown, the conservative free-tier monthly value cannot be reliably computed from the provided page text and is set to null.
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.
See Datadog pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Infrastructure Monitoring
- hosts
- more than 5
- metric retention
- more than 1 day
- Monitors hosts and infrastructure metrics
- Includes metric retention beyond the free tier
- Supports larger-scale infrastructure observability
Feature Flags
- monthly flag configuration requests
- 1,000,000+
- Feature flag configuration requests beyond the free allowance
- Supports higher-volume flag management
- Part of Datadog Software Delivery
Cloud Cost Management
- cost visibility scope
- broader than Datadog costs only
- Cloud cost visibility and allocation
- Broader cost analytics beyond Datadog-only visibility
- FinOps-oriented reporting
Pricing extracted from Datadog's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
