Datadog

Datadog operates a cloud-based monitoring and security platform for developers, IT operations, and business teams. The company positions itself around "AI-powered observability and security," promising visibility into any stack and any application at any scale.

The platform unifies several monitoring disciplines in one system: infrastructure monitoring across cloud environments, application performance monitoring (APM) for optimizing applications, log management for troubleshooting, and security features covering code, cloud, and workloads. This is complemented by digital experience monitoring for frontend and user experience, real user monitoring, synthetic monitoring, network traffic analysis, and serverless application monitoring.

With "Bits AI," Datadog offers AI-powered investigation tools that assist with root-cause analysis during incidents. Through the official Datadog MCP server, logs, metrics, monitors, dashboards, and incident management can be accessed directly from AI clients such as Claude Code or Cursor, secured via OAuth and respecting the same role-based permissions that apply in the Datadog UI itself.

The business model is a standard SaaS subscription with tiered pricing and a free trial. With more than 600 integrations and broad API extensibility, Datadog is one of the most established observability platforms, with strong adoption among Fortune 500 companies.

Datadog was founded in 2010 in New York and has been publicly traded since 2019 (NASDAQ: DDOG). The company is one of the leading observability providers, competing with New Relic, Dynatrace, and Grafana Labs, among others, for enterprise customers in the cloud monitoring market.