Pricing | Datadog

Infrastructure

See inside any stack, any app, at any scale, anywhere

Free

Starting At

^$ 0

Core collection and visualization features

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Features

Standard Events and Metrics
Out-of-the-Box Dashboards
600+ Integrations
Host and Container Maps
Enterprise-Grade Security
Unlimited User Accounts
1-to-1 Collaboration on CoScreen
Full-Resolution Data Retention

1-day metric retention
Up to 5 hosts

Pro

Starting At

^$ 15

Per host, per month*

Centralize your monitoring of systems, services, and serverless functions

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Features

Standard Events and Metrics
Out-of-the-Box Dashboards
600+ Integrations
Host and Container Maps
Enterprise-Grade Security
Unlimited User Accounts
1-to-1 Collaboration on CoScreen
Full-Resolution Data Retention
Alerts
Container Monitoring
Custom Metrics
Custom Events
Single Sign-On with SAML
Outlier Detection

Add-ons

AWS Fargate (serverless containers)
IoT Device Monitoring

600+ integrations
Out-of-the-box dashboards
15-month metric retention

*Billed annually or $18 on-demand

Enterprise

Starting At

^$ 23

Per host, per month*

Advanced features and administrative controls

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Features

Standard Events and Metrics
Out-of-the-Box Dashboards
600+ Integrations
Host and Container Maps
Enterprise-Grade Security
Unlimited User Accounts
1-to-1 Collaboration on CoScreen
Full-Resolution Data Retention
Alerts
Container Monitoring
Custom Metrics
Custom Events
Single Sign-On with SAML
Outlier Detection
Watchdog: Automated insights
Correlations
Anomaly Detection
Forecast Monitoring
Live Processes
Advanced Administrative Tools

Add-ons

AWS Fargate (serverless containers)
IoT Device Monitoring

Machine learning-based alerts
Live Processes

*Billed annually or $27 on-demand

Volume discounts available (600+ hosts/mo)

Features

Free

Pro

Enterprise

Features

Standard Events and Metrics

Up to 5 hosts

Out-of-the-Box Dashboards

600+ Integrations

Host and Container Maps

Enterprise-Grade Security

Unlimited User Accounts

1-to-1 Collaboration on CoScreen

Full-Resolution Data Retention

1 day

15 months

15 months Customizable

Alerts

Unlimited

Container Monitoring

5 per host included

10 per host included

Custom Metrics

100 per host included

200 per host included

Custom Events

500 per host included

1000 per host included

Single Sign-On with SAML

Outlier Detection

Watchdog: Automated insights

Correlations

Anomaly Detection

Forecast Monitoring

Live Processes

Advanced Administrative Tools

Add-ons

AWS Fargate (serverless containers)

$1 per task

IoT Device Monitoring

$5 per device

Pricing

^$ 0

^$ 15

Per host, per month*

^$ 23

Per host, per month*

Support Plans

From basic plans to bespoke offerings, Datadog offers the right level of support for any organization.

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A host is any physical or virtual OS instance that you monitor with Datadog. It could be a server, VM, node (in the case of Kubernetes) or App Service Plan instance (in the case of Azure App Services).

How do I monitor containers?

The Datadog Agent runs in a container alongside any number of other containers on a host. From there it can collect metrics from its neighboring containers and from the host itself. Depending on your plan, you can monitor 5 or 10 containers free for each host license. Additional containers will be billed at $0.002 per container per hour. In addition, you can purchase prepaid containers at $1 per container per month.

What is a custom metric?

Datadog was designed to allow you to monitor your own custom applications and business metrics—not just your infrastructure. You can send any and all of your organization’s important metrics to Datadog for graphing, alerting, correlation, anomaly detection and more. Example uses: monitoring ad revenue, the rate at which shopping carts are abandoned, or the health of an in-game economy. Many customers find these metrics invaluable, especially when combined with infrastructure metrics.

What is a custom event?

Datadog allows you to send custom events coming from your own custom applications such as custom-built deployment tools or scheduled maintenance jobs. This way, you can correlate any of these events with performance metrics, create monitors for alerting and enrich events at intake with processing pipelines to be queried alongside other standard events.

How many events are included per host?

Datadog offers 500 custom events for every host monitored with infrastructure monitoring for pro plan, or 1000 for enterprise plan. Custom events are averaged across your entire account, not just on a per-host basis. Beyond this limit, Datadog charges $2 for 100 000 custom events (billed annually or $3 on-demand), although it is rare for our customers to exceed the included volume.

How can I send custom metrics and events?

You can send Datadog custom metrics and events in three ways

The Datadog Agent ships with DogStatsD so you can submit custom metrics via the Agent's non-blocking API functions for many programming languages.
The Datadog Agent allows for the creation of custom integrations via plugins to the Agent. This plugin system allows the Agent to collect custom metrics on your behalf. Integrations which are contributed back to the Datadog Agent convert to standard metrics.
Datadog also has a full-featured API that you can send your metrics to—either directly over HTTP or with a language-specific library.

How can I be sure my data is secure?

Security is our top priority. This includes, universal HTTPS, strong TLS configuration, and HTTP Strict Transport Security. Our Agent is open-source, which means it can be reviewed to ensure it meets your security requirements.

Are there other billing options?

Annual, monthly and hourly plans are available. We can customize billing plans to meet your needs. For a detailed explanation of billing, please see our Billing FAQ

Do you have special offerings for partners?

We’re always looking to partner with technology and service providers and resellers. See our Partners page for more.

How do you define an IoT device?

An IoT device is a nonstandard compute device deployed outside of an on-premise or cloud data center which transmits data over a network. Examples of IoT devices include the Raspberry Pi and Nvidia Jetson. You can monitor IoT devices in Datadog with the Datadog IoT Agent.

Log Management

Analyze and explore log data in context with flexible retention

Ingest

Starting At

^$ 0.10

Per ingested or scanned GB, per month*

Ingest, process, live tail, and archive all logs

Enrich and structure log data
Parse on ingestion
Generate log-based metrics
Self-hosted archives, with the option to rehydrate
Dynamic index routing

*Per GB of uncompressed data ingested for processing, or compressed data scanned for rehydrating.

Retain or Rehydrate

^$ 1.70

Per million log events, per month*

Retain logs based on their value and rehydrate from archives on-demand

Define log retention based on tags or facets
Simplified pricing based on retention for better cost control
Log patterns and analytics
Log Rehydration™ for audits and historical analysis

**Billed annually or $1.59 on-demand **Billed annually or $1.91 on-demand **Billed annually or $2.55 on-demand **Billed annually or $3.75 on-demand **Billed annually or $3.75 on-demand

Volume discounts available (3B+ events/mo)

Log Forwarding to Custom Destinations

Starting At

^$ 0.25

Per GB outbound, per destination, per month*

Centralize your log processing, enrichment and routing to multiple destinations

Forward your logs in real-time to any destination in just a few clicks
Collect, transform, and route logs to multiple destinations without the need to index
Low-latency, cloud scale throughput
RBAC-enabled

*Per GB of uncompressed data forwarded per destination

Unlimited Sources
Faceted & Full-text Search
600+ vendor-backed integrations
Custom Processing & Parsers
Log Analytics and Dashboarding
Log Anomaly Detection
Supports PCI and HIPAA compliance
Fully integrated with Datadog role-based access control (RBAC)

Enterprise-Grade Security
Unlimited User Accounts
Real-time Alerting
Logging without Limits™
Log-based custom metrics
Archive to AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage,
and Google Cloud Storage
Log Rehydration™ from AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, and Google Cloud Storage

Service and Support

Technical support across chat and email
Community Forum and Online Docs
Plans with the right level of support for your organization

When Combined with Other Plans

Automated Infrastructure Tags
Pivot seamlessly to Infrastructure and APM

Common Questions

How do you define retention?

The retention period is the number of days your logs are searchable and analyzable. After this period, logs disappear from your index(es).

Logs removed from your index(es) do not have to be gone forever! Check out our Log Archives for long-term storage options.

What happens if I send an unexpectedly high volume of logs?

By committing to a monthly volume of logs, you aren’t rate-limited based on a single day's volume. Send as much as you need on any given day without losing visibility. Assuming your average is lower on other days, your bill is unaffected.

In those cases where you have a big month, not to worry! You maintain complete visibility and pay for additional services (+50% of the annual price) only on the volume that exceeds your commitment.

How is Rehydration billed?

When you rehydrate logs, Datadog scans the compressed logs in your archive for the time period you requested, and then indexes only log events that match your rehydration query. Datadog charges $0.10 per compressed GB of log data that is scanned. For any log events indexed from a rehydration, the cost is equal to your contracted indexing rates for the retention period selected for the rehydration.

I know my consumption in GB/day: how do I convert it into millions of log events?

Log events come in all shapes and sizes, which is precisely why we offer event-based pricing! We want to encourage rich logs to provide the most value.

The best way to get the number of log events during your Datadog trial is to run a count query over the last 24 hours and multiply by 30 days to estimate for the month. This can, of course, also be done in your current log management solution, if you have one.

How do I monitor containers?

The Datadog Agent runs in a container alongside any number of other containers on a host. From there it can collect metrics and logs from its neighboring containers and from the host itself.

How are log-based metrics billed?

Log-based metrics can either be counted towards your Custom Metrics allocation as outlined in your infrastructure plan or charged on-demand starting at $5/100 metrics.

How can I be sure my data is secure?

Security is our top priority. This includes, TCP/SSL Strict Transport Security, agent-level scrubbing and SOC 2 compliance. Our Agent is open-source, which means it can be reviewed to ensure it meets your security requirements.

Are there other billing options?

Annual and monthly plans are available. We can customize billing plans to meet your needs. For a detailed explanation of billing, please see our Billing FAQ.

How can I manage my highly dynamic log volume in a cost-effective way without losing visibility?

We’ve designed our Log Management offer knowing from day 1 that managing large and fluctuating log volumes is a common problem. We have various innovative solutions for this, which you can learn more about from our dedicated article here.

Having all your infrastructure, APM, and log data under one roof is something we definitely encourage, but you can also subscribe only to Datadog’s Log Management. Learn how to configure only log collection here.

What retentions are available for on-demand customers?

For on-demand customers, the default retention is 15 days. If you have already created a Datadog account and would like to use a different retention, you can request a different retention at support@datadoghq.com

Is forwarding to S3 Archives, GCP Storage, and Azure Storage being billed?

No. Forwarding to S3 Archives, GCP Storage, and Azure Storage is included with $0.10 per ingested GB. However, forwarding to other destinations such as your external SIEM or BI vendor is billable starting at $0.25 per GB outbound per destination.

Can I forward logs from one Datadog account to another?

This is currently not supported.

Application Performance Monitoring

Improve the performance of your cloud-scale
applications end to end, down to a single line of code

APM

Starting At

^$ 31

Per host, per month*

Resolve issues faster with end-to-end distributed traces and service health metrics

15-minute live trace search & analytics
15-day historical search & analytics
15-month metric retention
Correlate traces with metrics, logs, processes, network data, and more

*Billed annually or $36 on-demand

APM Pro

Starting At

^$ 35

Per host, per month*

Track and improve the performance of your streaming data pipelines end to end

Everything included in APM
Data Streams Monitoring
Automatic dependency mapping of all queues and services
Detect slowdowns anywhere in your event-driven application
Pinpoint the root cause of bottlenecks from faulty queues or services

*Billed annually or $42 on-demand

APM Enterprise

Starting At

^$ 40

Per host, per month*

Optimize code performance in production with minimal overhead

Everything included in APM Pro
Continuous Profiler and Data Streams Monitoring
Code level visibility for every request
Optimize bottlenecks in your code to reduce resource consumption and cloud costs
Actionable insights with automatic code analysis

*Billed annually or $48 on-demand

Features

APM

APM Pro

APM Enterprise

Features

End-to-end distributed tracing for any app at any scale

Service dependency visualizations

Deployment Tracking - performance metrics and version comparisons for every deploy

Service Catalog - service ownership management alongside real-time observability data

Retain spans using tag-based filters and generate custom metrics from any span via the UI

AI-based anomaly, outlier, and root cause detection

End-to-end visibility between queues and application services

Detect bottlenecks and message-backed queues

Measure consumer lag in asynchronous applications

Attribute unexpected throughput to adjacent services and teams

Correlate delayed messages with related traces and logs

Low overhead code profiling in production

Method timings for every request (incl. time spent on locks, I/O, and more)

CPU and memory consumption for every service and code line

Code performance comparisons after deployments (e.g. CPU, memory allocations, lock wait time)

Automatic code analysis and actionable insights

Included

Span Ingestion: 150GB per APM host, averaged across all your APM hosts; then $0.10/GB

Span Retention: 1 million Indexed Spans per APM host, averaged across all your APM hosts; then $1.70 ($2.55 on-demand) per 1 million Indexed Spans with 15-day retention. See Common Questions below for additional retention periods

4 containers per profiled host, averaged across all your profiled hosts; then $2 per container

Add-ons

AWS Fargate

$2 per task ($2.90 on-demand)

$2.60 per task ($3.70 on-demand)

When combined with other products

Full stack visibility

Pivot to related infrastructure metrics, logs, processes, network data, synthetic tests, and RUM sessions

Cross-product dashboards and alerts

Service and Support

Technical support across chat and email
Community Forum and Online Docs
Plans with the right level of support for your organization

Pricing

^$ 31

Per host, per month*

^$ 35

Per host, per month*

^$ 40

Per host, per month*

Data Streams Monitoring is also available standalone starting at $15 per host
and Continuous Profiler is available standalone starting at $19 per host.
For more details, or reach out to your Sales or Customer Success rep.

Common Questions

What counts as a billable APM host?

A billable APM host is a host that is actively generating traces that are submitted to the Datadog SaaS application, including, but not limited to, an OpenTelemetry Collector. This means that hosts running services that are not instrumented (e.g. databases, caches, queues and load-balancers) and are not generating traces submitted to the Datadog platform do not count as APM hosts even if APM is enabled on them.

What kind of billing plan do I need to run APM, APM Pro, or APM Enterprise?

Every billable APM, APM Pro, or APM Enterprise host requires the purchase of Pro or Enterprise Infrastructure Monitoring. For example, if you subscribe for 10 APM hosts, those hosts must also be subscribed for 10 Pro or Enterprise Infrastructure hosts. This applies to both committed and non-committed host usage.

I am an existing APM customer. Can I switch to the APM Pro or APM Enterprise?

Yes. Existing APM customers have the option of changing their plan to APM Pro or APM Enterprise. Contact your Sales or Customer Success rep for help.

Can I purchase the APM & Continuous Profiler plan for a portion of my hosts and individual standalone products for the rest of my hosts?

No. Customers can commit to only one of the plans across all their APM hosts, not a combination thereof.

What languages does APM support?

Java, Python, Ruby, Go, Node, .NET and PHP. You can find the full list of supported languages and libraries in our documentation.

Can I add custom instrumentation on top of Datadog’s out-of-the-box instrumentation?

Yes. We provide auto-instrumentation for popular libraries and frameworks, but you can easily add custom instrumentation if desired.

Can I run APM with containers?

Yes, you can run APM in a containerized environment. The number of containers running on each host (node) does not impact the APM host-based price. AWS Fargate is also supported.

Does APM support Serverless computing?

Yes, we support AWS Fargate tasks ($2 per task billed annually or $2.90 on-demand) and AWS Lambda (see pricing info here).

What is the difference between ingestion and retention?

Ingestion means sending your traces to Datadog and having all of them available for Live Search and Analytics for 15 minutes. Retention means storing your most important traces (e.g. error, high latency, or business-critical ones) and making them available for search and analysis during a retention period of your choice (15 days by default).

Can I ingest additional spans?

Yes. While we include 150GB per APM host by default for Ingested Spans, you can always ingest additional traces and spans for 15-minute live trace search and analytics at $0.10/GB.

Note: The included 150GB per host is summed over all the APM hosts. For example, if in a given month you have 2 APM hosts and one ingests 250GBs and the other 50GBs (300GB in total), you will not be billed for ingestion that month.

Can I retain (index) additional spans and modify the retention period?

Yes. While we include 1 million Indexed Spans per APM host with 15-day retention by default, you can always retain additional spans.

For additional Indexed Spans, we offer the following retention periods:

7-day retention at $1.27 per million spans per month (billed annually or $1.91 on-demand)
15-day retention at $1.70 per million spans per month (billed annually or $2.55 on-demand)
30-day retention at $2.50 per million spans per month (billed annually or or $3.75 on-demand)

If you need longer retention, please reach out to your Customer Success or Sales rep to customize your plan.

Note 1: The included 1 million Indexed Spans per host is summed across all your APM hosts. For example, if in a given month you have 2 APM hosts and you index 1.5 million spans from one and 0.5 million from the other (2 million in total), you will not be billed for indexing that month.

Note 2: Indexed Spans that are auto-retained by Datadog do not count towards the 1 million Indexed Spans that are included per host.

How does on-demand billing of ingested and indexed spans differ from my committed plan?

For on-demand use of APM, which is counted on an hourly basis, both ingested and indexed span allotment for the associated APM Hosts are only counted toward use in that same hour and are not aggregated across all use throughout the month, as they are under the committed plan. This means that ingested and indexed span use that goes over the associated APM Host allotment in the same hour will increase billing regardless of span use during other times.

What are the hourly span allotments and on-demand pricing?

For every host hour customers get an allotment of 205 MB for ingested spans and 1,370 indexed spans. These numbers are a result of dividing the allotments under committed plans by the number of hours in a month. For every additional 205 MB in a given host hour, customers will be charged $0.02, and for every additional 1,370 indexed spans in a given host hour, customers will be charged $0.002.

Do I have to ingest and/or retain 100% of my traces?

With an intuitive user interface, you can decide what to send to Datadog as well as which traces to retain and for how long. This way, customers get full control over their tracing data and their network-bandwidth-related costs.

How are span-based metrics billed?

Span-based metrics are counted towards your Custom Metrics allocation as outlined in your infrastructure plan.

Can I run APM on web apps with Azure App Services (PaaS)?

Yes, the Datadog extension for Azure App Services provides additional monitoring capabilities for Azure Web Apps, including full support for distributed tracing using automatic instrumentation, manual APM instrumentation to customize spans, Trace_ID injection into application logs, and submitting custom metrics using DogStatsD. Learn more with our documentation.

What is considered as a host for Azure App Services?

All Azure App Service Plan instances will count as Infrastructure hosts. In addition, if they are running the Datadog extension and submitting APM traces from a Web App, all instances in the underlying ASP will be counted as APM hosts.

Are there other billing options?

Annual, monthly and hourly plans are available. We can customize billing plans to meet your needs. For a detailed explanation of billing, please see our Billing FAQ.

What is Data Streams Monitoring and how does it work?: Datadog Data Streams Monitoring (DSM) allows you to track and improve the performance of event-driven applications that use Kafka and RabbitMQ. DSM automatically maps dependencies between all services and queues, measures latency between them, and provides additional health metrics, such as consumer lag, across your streaming data pipeline to help you monitor it end to end.
What counts as a billable DSM host?: A billable Data Streams Monitoring host is a host that has the Datadog Agent installed and producer and consumer services that are running on it and instrumented for DSM. Visit our documentation for additional setup information.
What kind of billing plan do I need to run Data Streams Monitoring?: Every billable Data Streams Monitoring host requires the purchase of Pro or Enterprise Infrastructure Monitoring. Annual, month-to-month, and on-demand billing plans are available. For a detailed explanation of billing, please see our Billing FAQ.
Can I purchase Data Streams Monitoring standalone?: Yes, Data Streams Monitoring can be purchased for standalone hosts at $15 per host per month for DSM on top of the $31 per host per month for APM with an annual commitment.
Can I purchase APM Pro for a portion of my hosts and individual standalone products for the rest of my hosts?: No. Customers can commit to only one of the plans across all their APM hosts, not a combination thereof. That said, APM-only customers can purchase Data Streams Monitoring and/or Continuous Profiler on a portion of their hosts, and APM Pro customers can purchase Continuous Profiler on a portion of their hosts.
What Technologies do you support?: DSM currently supports Java, Go, .NET/C# for Kafka and Java and Go for RabbitMQ. Support for additional technologies and programming languages is coming soon.
How long is DSM data retained for?: Map history is stored for 30 days and all metrics are retained for 15 months.

What is Continuous Profiler?: Continuous Profiler is a tool to observe and analyze code-level performance in your production environment at all times with minimal overhead. It allows developers to identify and optimize the most resource-consuming methods in their code. We provide comprehensive documentation and encourage you to take a read.
What counts as a billable Continuous Profiler host?: A billable Continuous Profiler host is a host that has profiling installed and enabled according to Datadog’s runtime-specific setup instructions (example) and submits profiles to the Datadog SaaS application.
What kind of billing plan do I need to run APM Enterprise?: Every billable Continuous Profiler host requires the purchase of Pro or Enterprise Infrastructure Monitoring, regardless if it is combined with APM. The price includes 4 containers running profiled applications per host, summed across all Profiled hosts. Every additional container costs $2. Annual, month-to-month, and on-demand billing plans are available. For a detailed explanation of billing, please see our Billing FAQ.
I am an existing Continuous Profiler customer. Can I switch to the APM Enterprise plan?: Yes. Existing Continuous Profiler customers have the option of changing their plan to APM Enterprise starting at $40 per host per month. Contact your Sales or Customer Success rep for help.'
Can I purchase Continuous Profiler standalone?: Yes, Continuous Profiler can be purchased standalone at $19 per profiled host per month with an annual commitment. Month-to-month and on-demand plans are also available at $23 per profiled host per month or $0.04 per hour. Contact us or reach out to your Sales or Customer Success rep for more details.
Can I purchase APM Enterprise for a portion of my hosts and individual standalone products for the rest of my hosts?: No. Customers can commit to only one of the plans across all their APM hosts, not a combination thereof. That said, APM-only customers can purchase Continuous Profiler and/or Data Streams Monitoring on a portion of their hosts, and APM Pro customers can purchase Continuous Profiler on a portion of their hosts.
How do you define a profiled host?: A profiled host is a physical or virtual operating system instance which is running a profiled application. To be profiled, the host would need to have the agent installed and profiling enabled. When combined with APM, every APM host is also a profiler host, and vice versa. The same logic applies to profiled containers. For more information visit our Billing FAQ.
Which languages does Continuous Profiler support?: Currently supported languages are Java, Go, Python, and Ruby. Node is in beta and support for PHP, .NET, and C++ is coming soon.
How does Datadog Continuous Profiler work?: Our profilers constantly collect representative samples of all stack traces, aggregate them over a 60-second time period and forwards them through the Datadog agent. This is done continuously in one-minute intervals which means you will never lose code-level visibility in your services. To profile your services, simply import our profiling library or enable an environment variable flag when you run the APM tracer.
How do you ensure minimal performance impact in production?: We use the latest, most cutting-edge technologies, such as the JDK Flight Recorder, to ensure that performance impact is minimal even with full production workloads. Additionally, our profilers do not interrupt or interfere with any of your service requests hence we introduce no additional request latency.
How is profiling different from tracing?: Tracing measures latency of requests across services in distributed systems, whereas profiling provides deeper insights on all that happened on the code level of the services.
What are the benefits of Datadog Continuous Profiler?: Continuous Profiler is tightly integrated with the rest of the Datadog platform and it extends our seamless correlations between metrics, traces, and logs to the code level. This is extremely useful for code performance optimization, cost savings on cloud provider bills, and reducing request latency for improved user experience.
What types of profiles are available?: CPU, Memory Allocation, Lock, Wall Time, Disk IO, and Socket IO profiles. For more information visit our documentation page.
Are there other billing options?: Annual, monthly and hourly plans are available. We can customize billing plans to meet your needs. For a detailed explanation of billing, please see our Billing FAQ.

Universal Service Monitoring

Automatically discover, map, and monitor all your services—without changing code

Starting At

^$ 9

Per Infrastructure host, per month*

Automatically discover all 1st and 3rd party services and their dependencies
Monitor real-time performance metrics of every service in one place
Standardize monitoring best practices across all teams

*Billed annually or $13 on-demand

Volume discounts available

Automatic service discovery with no code changes
Real-time service dependency map
Real-time throughput, error, and latency metrics
Easy-to-set-up SLOs with consistent SLIs
Machine learning-based monitors

Automatically populated Service Catalog
Service ownership management
Source code and Pagerduty integrations
Drag & drop dashboards with template variables
Support for every programming language

Service and Support

Technical support across chat and email
Community Forum and Online Docs

When Combined with Other Plans

Pivot seamlessly to related metrics, traces, logs and code profiles during investigations
Correlate service performance and reliability with security signals

Common Questions

What is Universal Service Monitoring (USM) and how does it work?

Universal Service Monitoring (USM) uses the revolutionary eBPF technology (kernel-level) to provide request, error, and latency metrics for the entire fleet of services in seconds, with no code changes and regardless of programming language. To learn more please read our documentation and blog.

What kind of billing plan do I need to run USM?

Datadog USM must be purchased with every Pro or Enterprise Infrastructure Monitoring host on your plan.

I am an existing Infrastructure Monitoring customer. Can I add USM to my plan?

Yes. Existing Infrastructure Monitoring customers can add USM to all their Pro or Enterprise hosts for an additional $9 per host per month (starting price with an annual commitment). Reach out to your Customer Success Manager for further details.

Can I purchase USM for a subset of my Pro or Enterprise Infrastructure hosts?

No. In order to use and gain the most value out of USM, it must be purchased in addition to every Pro or Enterprise Infrastructure host.

What types of Infrastructure does USM support?

USM currently supports containerized environments. Support for non-containerized environments is coming soon. For more information please visit our documentation.

Does USM support serverless technologies?

Serverless technologies such as ECS Fargate, EKS Fargate, and AWS Lambda are not currently supported.

What operating systems does USM support?

USM currently supports most Linux (4.14+) or CentOS/RHEL (8.0+) containerized environments and Windows IIS-based services (Windows 2012 R2+). For more information please visit our documentation.

Which programming languages and network protocols does USM support?

USM is programming language-agnostic and currently supports containerized applications that communicate using HTTP and HTTPS (OpenSSL and GnuTLS are supported). For more information please visit our documentation.

What is the difference between USM and Datadog APM?

USM automatically discovers, maps, and catalogs your 1st- and 3rd-party services without requiring any redeployment and regardless of programming language. This allows you to gain instant visibility into their health metrics and dependencies, and quickly detect issues anywhere in your application. Datadog APM allows you to easily troubleshoot issues with distributed traces and code profiles that provide request- and code-level visibility for fast root-cause analysis and resolution.

Can I purchase USM and APM on the same host?

Yes. You can set up USM on all your Pro or Enterprise Infrastructure hosts and set up APM and distributed tracing on all or a subset of these hosts. This applies to both existing and new Datadog APM customers.

How does billing work if I purchase USM and APM on the same host?

If both USM and APM are purchased and/or installed on the same host, you will pay for both products separately.

Are there other billing options?

Annual, monthly, and hourly plans are available in combination with Infrastructure Monitoring. We can customize billing plans to meet your needs. For a detailed explanation of billing, please see our Billing FAQ or reach out to your account manager.

Database Monitoring

Surface slow performing queries and optimize application performance

Starting At

^$ 70

Per database host, per month*

Track normalized query performance trends using database-generated metrics
Correlate query performance with database infrastructure metrics
Access all of your database insights, database hosts, clusters, and applications
Extract valuable data without compromising database security

*Billed annually or $84 on-demand

In-depth explain plans
Out-of-the-box slow query detection
200 normalized queries supported per host
Automatic PII obfuscation from all query data
No code instrumentation needed
Unlimited user accounts

Tag-based query filtering and grouping
Access to hundreds of relevant database metrics
Total visibility into your Postgres, MySQL and SQL Server databases whether self-hosted or managed
Out-of-the-box database list with active connections and in-depth wait event analysis

Service and Support

Technical support across chat and email
Community Forum and Online Docs
Plans with the right level of support for your organization

When Combined with Other Plans

Set triggers to alert teams on abnormal query trends
Visualize and easily share insights with key stakeholders via Datadog Screenboards
Out of the box support for dashboards, monitors, SLOs and advanced formulas and functions

Common Questions

How do you define a database host?

A database host is any physical or virtual instance hosting your database on a server that you monitor with Datadog.

What databases are supported?

Database Monitoring (DBM) is vendor-agnostic. We support Postgres (9.6+), MySQL (5.6+) and SQL Server (2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019) databases at this time, whether they be on-premise, self-managed, or cloud-hosted. In the future, we plan to support additional databases.

Can I purchase Database Monitoring (DBM) standalone?

No, you need to be an existing Infrastructure Monitoring customer to purchase Database Monitoring.

I am an existing Infrastructure Monitoring customer. Can I purchase DBM for a portion of my database hosts?

Yes, you can purchase Database Monitoring (DBM) for one, some, or all of your database hosts!

What are (query) explain plans and how are they useful?

A query explain plan or query execution plan describes the steps used to access data and enables you to locate hotspots. We automatically capture explain plans for all queries to make sure that you have sample available during critical moments.

How long is DBM data retained?

– Query metrics are retained for 3 months
– Explain plans and query samples are retained for 15 days

How does DBM work?

DBM uses the Datadog Agent to capture data from your databases. Please see our documentation for more information.

Does DBM require the use of an additional agent?

No, as long as you are an Infrastructure Monitoring customer and already have the standard Datadog Agent set up, you are able to use Database Monitoring. Check out our docs page for details.

What are normalized queries?

Identical queries with different parameters are grouped together by obfuscating the parameters. These query groups are called normalized queries and are sometimes referred to as query digests. Datadog supports 200 normalized queries per database host. Obfuscating parameters at the agent level also ensures that no sensitive data is forwarded.

Can I still use DBM if I have additional normalized queries past the included amount?

200 normalized queries are included per host. This allotment is aggregated across all hosts, meaning that if you have 2 hosts, you have a total limit of 200 + 200 = 400 queries regardless of the exact breakdown by host, i.e. 200 normalized queries on average. At your request, we can accommodate additional normalized queries surpassing this limit for an extra charge.

Are there other billing options?

Annual and monthly plans are available. We can customize billing plans to meet your needs. For a detailed explanation of billing, please see our Billing FAQ.

Synthetic Monitoring

API and Browser Tests for proactive, end-to-end visibility

API Tests

Starting At

^$ 5

Per ten thousand test runs, per month*

Proactively monitor site availability

Monitor uptime SLAs and SLOs
Globally managed locations
Sophisticated alerting capabilities

*Billed annually or $7.20 on-demand

Browser Tests

Starting At

^$ 12

Per thousand test runs, per month*

Easily monitor critical user journeys

Record tests without code
Intelligent, self-maintaining tests
View screenshots and front-end errors for every step

*Billed annually or $18 on-demand

Track site uptime and latency
Understand global performance
Track SLAs and SLOs
Customize frequency of test runs
Latency display of DNS, SSL, TTFB, and more.

Web-Recorder for code-free test creation
AI-driven Self-Maintaining Tests
Waterfall visualization and screenshots
Real-time alerting with rich context
Easy sorting and filtering with tags

Service and Support

Technical support across chat and email
Community Forum and Online Docs
Plans with the right level of support for your organization

When Combined with Other Plans

Full stack visibility
Pivot to related metrics, traces, and logs

Common Questions

What’s the difference between API Tests and Browser Tests?

API Tests monitor single endpoints or URLs, whereas Browser Tests monitor web business transactions or web user journeys that may involve several actions and pages. Multistep API tests are also available to chain several HTTP API tests together.

Are you able to alert on Synthetic monitors?

Yes, alerts are built in and triggered automatically when your tests fail. Datadog also integrates with your favorite collaboration/communication tools such as Slack, Pagerduty, ServiceNow, and more.

Can I view endpoint requests end-to-end?

Yes, with the out-of-the-box APM integration, you are able to tie back any synthetic tests to their corresponding back-end, code-level insights for minimal mean time to resolution.

Is there any extra charge for using private locations?

No. There are no additional costs to set up a private location. All test runs to a private location are billed just as they are to a managed location.

What counts as an API test run?

HTTP, SSL, DNS, TCP, and ICMP all fall under API test billing. Each hit being made on your endpoint counts as a single test run. If a test is set to run from 3 locations every minute, the test will count as 180 test runs in an hour.

For multistep API tests, each request counts as an individual API test.

What counts as a browser test run?

Each simulation of a full transaction (25 steps) counts as a single test run. A single test containing 50 steps counts as 2 test runs on each execution. So, running a 51 step test (counting as 3 test runs) every 15 minutes from 5 different locations and 2 different devices means the test will count as 120 test runs in an hour.

How do browser test subtests participate in Synthetics billing?

Subtests are treated just as any other step in the browser test. Therefore, we bill a subtest as part of the overall test execution. So if a user sets up a browser test with 3 subtests, that each have 5 steps nested, that would amount to a total of 15 steps.

Continuous Testing

Fast, codeless, and reliable testing that helps you ship features with confidence

API Testing

Starting At

^$ 5

Per ten thousand test runs, per month*

Test API endpoints and workflows

Easily configure and run single or multistep API tests
Globally managed locations

*Billed annually or $7.20 on-demand

Browser Testing

Starting At

^$ 12

Per thousand test runs, per month*

Provide the best end-user experiences

Record tests without code
Intelligent, self-healing tests
Step-by-step screenshots and error reporting
Globally managed locations

*Billed annually or $18 on-demand

Parallel Testing (add-on)

Starting At

^$ 79

Per additional parallelization, per month*

Increase the speed of your test runs

Run tests at the same time (in other words, in parallel) across your test environments to expedite release cycles and reduce test durations
Analyze tests across your pipelines in the Synthetic Monitoring & Continuous Testing Explorer and search using facets on test durations, commit author, pipeline, and more

*Billed annually or $114 on-demand

Volume discounts available

Service and Support

Technical support across chat and email
Community Forum and Online Docs
Plans with the right level of support for your organization

When Combined with Other Plans

Full stack visibility with APM integration
Pivot to related metrics, traces, and logs

Common Questions

What is Continuous Testing?

Datadog Continuous Testing is a comprehensive toolkit in the development cycle that offers integration and end-to-end testing with codeless test setup, self-healing capability, and seamless integration with CI providers (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, CircleCI, GitLab, and Jenkins) and collaboration tools to help you ship high-quality features to your users quickly.

Running tests in your CI/CD pipelines today is included with your API and Browser Testing test runs, and tests will run sequentially (one after another). If you would like to increase the speed of testing in your CI/CD pipelines, you can purchase additional Parallel Testing speed (parallelization), which makes some tests run at the same time.

For example, 1 Parallel Testing additional speed offers an additional parallel slot, allowing you to run 2 tests in parallel; 2 Parallel Testing additional speed offers 2 additional parallel slots, allowing you to run 3 tests in parallel; and so on. This helps you run more tests in parallel (at the same time), and reduce the overall execution speed of your test suite.

Am I limited to a certain number of test runs based on my additional parallelization?

No. With Parallel Testing, you can run as many tests as you need in your CI/CD pipelines. Parallelization ensures you can run more of those tests at the same time, and ultimately reduce the duration of testing in your CI/CD pipelines.

For example, if you want to run 100 tests in a CI pipeline and each test takes 10 seconds to run:

WITHOUT parallelization, your tests will run sequentially and your pipeline will take roughly 17 minutes to complete.
WITH parallelization, if you purchase (for example) an additional speed of 4 Parallel Testing, your 100 tests will run over a total of 5 parallel slots, and your pipeline will now take roughly 3 minutes to complete.

Note: In both cases, your 100 test runs will contribute to your API or Browser Testing test run quotas.

Can I reuse my Synthetic tests that I use to monitor my production environments?

Yes. With Parallel Testing, you can use the same Synthetic tests you have configured for production monitoring across all of your staging, QA, and pre-production environments. Through variable overrides and custom configuration values, you can benefit from one test throughout your entire software development lifecycle.

What are parallel tests?

Parallel tests are tests that run simultaneously in your continuous integration and delivery pipelines to ensure that you can:

Reduce pipeline duration and ship new features faster
Increase development confidence and speed of delivery
Have complete test coverage and reduce the volume of production-breaking bugs from reaching your codebase

As an example, if you needed to run 60 tests and each test took one minute to run, it would take you one hour to run those tests sequentially. However, running those tests in parallel with a parallelization value of 60, you could run all your tests at the same time and within one minute, saving you 59 minutes to tackle other business-critical tasks. That's the power of Parallel Testing.

Can I see the full trace of a test if I also use Datadog APM?

Yes! If you instrument your services with APM, you will have a complete 360-degree visibility into your applications and services—from your frontend user experience right through to your backend trace. Find more information here.

What counts as a browser test run?

Each simulation of a web transaction (up to 25 steps) counts as a single browser test run. A single test containing 50 steps would count as two test runs on each execution. For example, running a 60-step test (three test runs) every 15 minutes from five different locations and two different devices equates to 120 test runs in one hour.

How do subtests count toward billing?

Subtests are simply a set of steps within a browser test. Therefore, we count a subtest as part of the overall browser test execution. For example, if you set up a browser test with only three subtests and each subtest had five steps, that would amount to a total of 15 steps, or one browser test run.

Incident Management

Fully integrated incident management in-app

Starting At

^$ 20

Per user, per month*

Detect, triage, and track incidents with no context-switching
Assess severity and pull in relevant teams and resources
Collaborate directly in-app and across your favorite communication tools
Track incidents across an intuitive timeline and generate postmortems

*Billed annually or $30 on-demand

Declare, manage, and investigate incidents from multiple sources
Pivot from alert to chat room to timeline with no loss of context
Leverage a collaborative workflow with the Datadog Slack App
Integrations with paging and communication tools

Collect data and signals from across the platform
Set up webhooks from monitors and runbooks for autoremediation
Export to Datadog Notebooks and other documentation tools

Service and Support

Technical support across chat and email
Community Forum and Online Docs
Plans with the right level of support for your organization

When Combined with Other Plans

Automatic incident management across the platform
Preserved incident data from any source, start to finish

Common Questions

How is a user defined?

Incident Management is billed by counting Monthly Active Users (MAUs). An “active user” is only counted if they contribute comments or signals (graphs, links, etc.) to an incident. Anyone who only opens/closes an incident or simply views the incident are not counted. Additionally, these are not named seats, so you do not need to determine which specific users have access.

What tools does Datadog’s Incident Management integrate with?

Datadog integrates with the Datadog Slack App for incident communication channels to facilitate collaboration and timeline activity. Other communication tools can be linked directly from an incident. Check out our Docs for more information.

How do I declare an incident? Can I include external details?

Incident Management is deeply integrated across the Datadog platform to ensure you can open incidents when you need to from wherever you are. Incidents can be opened from alerts, graphs, logs, APM, Security signals and more. External sources, like customer support tickets, can also be used as signals in an incident by adding them as links. Doing so adds them to the incident timeline and can be used to explain the scope of impact.

Does Datadog have an on-call scheduler?

Datadog integrates with partners like PagerDuty to ensure your on-call team members can be added to incidents and appropriately notified.

Can I use Datadog Incident Management without using other Datadog products?

Datadog Incident Management can be used as a standalone incident management solution for your team, or as a central hub in-app to consolidate the tools and processes you already use.

Real User Monitoring & Session Replay

Measure the end-to-end experience of web and mobile applications from your users’ perspective

Mobile RUM

Starting At

^$ 1.50

Per 1,000 sessions, per month*

Optimize apps on iOS, Android and other platforms with OOTB performance metrics and alerts
Get visibility into code bugs and crashes using Error Tracking & Crash Reporting
Troubleshoot high latency using Resources and app freezes using Long Tasks
Automatic and custom tracking of page views and user actions inside user sessions
Understand and optimize key user flows using funnel analysis and frustration signals

*Billed annually or $2.20 on-demand

Browser RUM

Starting At

^$ 1.50

Per 1,000 sessions, per month*

Optimize web applications with OOTB performance metrics and alerts
Get visibility into code bugs and crashes using Error Tracking
Troubleshoot high latency using Resources and app freezes using Long Tasks
Automatic and custom tracking of page views and user actions inside user sessions
Understand and optimize key user flows using funnel analysis and frustration signals

*Billed annually or $2.20 on-demand

Browser RUM & Session Replay

Starting At

^$ 1.80

Per 1,000 sessions, per month*

Everything in Browser, plus:

View user problems firsthand by watching video-like replays
Exclude all user inputs by default using privacy options
Analyze bugs as they occur and understand their impact on performance using DevTools
Visualize user behavior through click interactions on Heatmaps

*Billed annually or $2.60 on-demand

Volume discounts available

Features

Mobile RUM

Browser RUM

Browser RUM & Session Replay

Features

Sessions

Views

Actions

Errors

Resources

Long Tasks

Visual Replay of User Sessions

Heatmaps

Funnel Visualization

Frustration Signals

Performance Vitals

Mobile Vitals

Core Web Vitals

Out-of-the-box Dashboards

Error Tracking

Android, iOS

When combined with other products

Frontend-to-backend visibility with the APM integration

Query, analyze, visualize and alert on your application data

Support Plans

From basic plans to bespoke offerings, Datadog offers the right level of support for any organization.

LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR SUPPORT PLANS

Common Questions

How is a session defined?

A session is a user journey on your web application. It expires after 15 minutes of inactivity and lasts up to 4 hours. For a detailed explanation of user sessions, please see our docs.

What data does Datadog’s RUM collect?

We collect events across browser and mobile applications on various platforms. Our SDKs collect events automatically or can be instrumented to capture custom events. For mobile platforms supported, please refer to our Mobile RUM documentation. We capture the following events: page views, buttons clicked called actions, network requests called resources, and long tasks. For each event captured, we capture attributes that provide information about the event. Refer to our Browser RUM and Android, iOS, React Native, and Flutter RUM documentation

How does Session Replay work?

Session Replay works on web applications running on desktop browsers or mobile browsers. It captures changes in the web page code, called DOM and DOM-mutations, to recreate a user’s experience in real-time in the browser.

What Mobile languages do you support instrumentation for?

We currently support Android (Java and Kotlin), iOS (Swift and Objective-C), and React Native, Flutter

Can I view logs from my browser or mobile app in RUM?

Yes, these logs are automatically tied to the corresponding RUM session, making it easy to monitor when they happen during the user journey.

How can I begin setting up for RUM?

Setup steps can be found in our docs: Browser, Session Replay, Mobile.

CI Visibility

Monitor the health and performance of your CI pipelines and tests

Pipeline Visibility

Starting At

^$ 8

Per committer, per month*

Deep insight into pipelines, builds and jobs

View data from multiple CI providers in a single place
Visualize performance across pipelines, stages, and jobs
Slice-and-dice pipelines data by provider, pipeline, environment, and more

*Billed annually or $12 on-demand

Testing Visibility

Starting At

^$ 20

Per committer, per month*

Granular visibility into test performance

Automatic flaky test detection
Visualize traces for each test across services
Identify performance regressions and trends over time
Compatible with any CI Provider

*Billed annually or $29 on-demand

Integrations with CI providers such as GitLab, Jenkins, CircleCI and more
Out-of-the-box dashboard to visualize the health of your pipelines
Create custom dashboards and monitors
Optimize CI resource consumption

End-to-end visibility across all tests
Identify commits introducing flaky tests
Improve testing quality and developer productivity
Easily solve complex test failures with many dependencies

Service and Support

Technical support across chat and email
Community Forum and Online Docs
Plans with the right level of support for your organization

When Combined with Other Plans

Auto-instrument pipelines and tests to seamlessly pivot to related logs and errors
Set alerts to notify teams about problems in pipelines

Common Questions

How do you define a committer?

A committer means an active Git committer; they are identified through their Git author email address. A committer is counted towards billing if they commit at least 3 times in a given month.

How do you define a committer in a pipeline not linked in a Git repository?

In the event that a pipeline is not associated to a git repository, or git metadata is unavailable, the username of the person triggering the pipeline execution will be used as the billable committer.

Can I purchase more than one plan for my team?

Yes, customers can purchase a combination of plans. For example, for a team of 5, you can have 2 committers billed for Pipeline Visibility and 3 (other) committers billed for Testing Visibility.

How do you define a span?

For Pipeline Visibility, every pipeline, pipeline stage and pipeline job counts as a span. For Testing Visibility, every individual test run counts as a span.

What is the span limit?

400,000 spans are included per Pipeline Visibility committer per month (summed across all Pipeline Visibility committers). 1,000,000 spans are included per Testing Visibility committer per month (summed across all Testing Visibility committers).

What is the span retention period?

Pipeline and Test spans are retained for 15 months.

Can I modify the span retention period?

No, the span retention period cannot be modified.

Can I purchase additional spans?

Yes. Pipeline spans and test spans can each be purchased at $2.50 per million spans per month.

What CI providers does CI Visibility support?

Pipeline Visibility: GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, Buildkite, Codefresh, and TeamCity. Support for more CI providers is coming soon.
Testing Visibility: Compatible with any CI provider.

What languages does CI Visibility support for tests?

CI Visibility directly supports .NET, Java, JavaScript, Python, Swift, and Ruby. Other languages and test frameworks are supported by using JUnit xml.

Serverless Monitoring

Detect and resolve performance issues in your serverless apps

Serverless Workload Monitoring

Starting At

^$ 5

Per active* function, per month**

Centralized monitoring of serverless apps

Detect issues with real-time serverless metrics
Identify increases in cold starts or cold start duration
Search for functions with custom serverless tags
Correlate metrics with recent deployments

*Average of the hourly number of invoked functions
**Billed annually or $7.20 on-demand

Serverless APM

Starting At

^$ 10

Per million traced invocations*, per month**

Add deeper visibility into your active functions

Find bottlenecks or errors for individual invocations
Trace functions, APIs and queues all in one trace
Enrich traces with request and response payloads
Visualize requests with out-of-the-box service map

*Triggered by active functions
**Billed annually or $15 on-demand

Integrates with AWS CDK, Serverless Framework, SAM, Terraform, and more
Out-of-the-box health dashboards for API Gateway, Step Functions, SQS, DynamoDB, and more
Optimize function memory use and cold starts with Watchdog Insights
Available for Lambda functions in all major Lambda runtimes

Analyze request and response payloads for each serverless invocation
Performance metrics and version comparisons for every release with deployment tracking
Automatic APM trace map visualizes end-to-end trajectory for each request
Pivot from failing functions to related commits in GitHub

Support Plans

From basic plans to bespoke offerings, Datadog offers the right level of support for any organization.

LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR SUPPORT PLANS

Common Questions

How do you define an active function?

Datadog bills based on the average number of functions per hour across the month for your accounts. Every hour, Datadog records the number of functions that were executed one or more times and monitored by your Datadog account. At the end of the month, Datadog charges by calculating the average of the hourly number of functions recorded. For example, if you invoked a function only once during a month, your bill will be 1 function / 720 hours * $5.

How do you define a traced invocation?

Datadog bills based on the sum of AWS Lambda invocations connected to an ingested APM trace in a given month. You will also be billed for the total number of indexed spans submitted to the Datadog APM service exceeding the bundled quantity at the end of the month.

Can I control how many invocations are traced?

Yes, Datadog allows you to control the percentage of Lambda function invocations that generate APM data.

Can Serverless APM be purchased without Serverless Workload Monitoring?

No, Serverless APM is an optional add-on for serverless functions sending metrics to Datadog via Serverless Workload Monitoring.

What is included with Serverless APM?

Span Ingestion: 50GB Ingested Spans per 1M traced invocations; then $0.10/GB. Span Retention: 300 thousand Indexed Spans per 1M traced invocations; then $1.70 per 1 million Indexed Spans with 15-day retention (billed annually or $2.55 on-demand). See APM common questions for additional retention periods.

What AWS Lambda runtimes do you support?

Python, Node.js, Go, Ruby, Java, and .NET

How can I send my serverless logs to Datadog?

AWS service logs are collected with the Datadog Forwarder Lambda function.

Can I monitor other AWS services used alongside my Lambda functions?

Yes, Datadog has an easy to set up AWS integration which immediately pulls in metrics and more from 85+ AWS services, including Amazon API Gateway, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS AppSync, Amazon SQS, Amazon Kinesis, and AWS Step Functions.

Network Monitoring

Monitor devices and traffic flows for complete network visibility

Network Performance
Monitoring

Starting At

^$ 5

Per host, per month*

Understand network traffic patterns and search with tags

Visualize flows on the network map
Slice-and-dice traffic by host, process, container, service, AZ, and more
Analyze system-wide DNS performance

*Billed annually or $7.20 on-demand

Network Device
Monitoring

Starting At

^$ 7

Per device, per month*

Monitor the health and performance of on-premise network devices

Out-of-the-box metrics collected from switches, routers, firewalls and more
Visualize interface bandwidth and utilization, disk, fan, and other hardware health
Comprehensive and customizable alerts

*Billed annually or $10.20 on-demand

Network traffic mapping
Meaningful traffic aggregation
Hybrid, on-premise, and cloud coverage

User-defined tagging
Device autodiscovery
Deployment in minutes

Service and Support

Technical support across chat and email
Community Forum and Online Docs
Plans with the right level of support for your organization

When Combined with Other Plans

Pivot seamlessly to Infrastructure, APM and Logs
Automated Infrastructure Tags

Common Questions

How do you define a host?

A host is any physical or virtual machine that has the Datadog agent installed with Network Performance Monitoring enabled.

How do you define a device?

A device is a physical or virtual appliance with a unique IP address that is polled using SNMP.

How do you define a flow?

A flow is a record of traffic sent and received between a source (IP:Port) and destination (IP:Port) over a five minute time period. In some cases, similar destinations are grouped into a single flow to reduce the total flow count.

How many flows are included per host?

Datadog offers 6 million flows for every host monitored with network monitoring. Flows are averaged across your entire account, not just on a per-host basis. Beyond this limit, Datadog charges $1.27 / million flows, although it is rare for our customers to exceed the included volume.

Does Network Performance Monitoring work with containers?

Yes, Datadog Network Performance Monitoring is designed to work in containerized and highly dynamic environments. User-defined tags allow you to slice and dice network flows by almost anything, including containers, clusters, pods, and deployments.

Do I need to purchase other Datadog products to use NPM or NDM?

Having all your infrastructure, traces, logs, and network information under one roof is something we encourage for comprehensive visibility, however, it is not required. Network Performance Monitoring requires the purchase of an Infrastructure Pro or Enterprise plan. Network Device Monitoring only requires the purchase of one or more infrastructure hosts which are used to poll devices.

Observability Pipelines

Collect, transform, and route observability data to any destination at petabyte scale

Starting At

^$ 0.095

Per ingested GB per month*

Collect data from any source
Route data to any destination
Enrich, structure, and transform logs, metrics, and traces
Make decisions before data leaves your environment
Monitor the health of all of your telemetry pipelines at scale

**Billed per GB of uncompressed data ingested

Control costs by reducing the volume of observability data
Reduce the size of events by dropping unnecessary fields
Transform your data to any shape and format
Redact sensitive data with custom rules
Easily scale to petabytes of data per day

Over 80 integrations with popular sources and destinations
Enrich your data with GeoIP or from lookup tables
Identify bottlenecks and verify data delivery in all your pipelines
Standardize data across all of your services

Service and Support

Technical support (Chat and Email)
Community Forum, Robust Open Source Community, and Online Docs

Common Questions

How does Observability Pipelines work?

Observability Pipelines gives the freedom to collect, transform, and route logs, metrics, and traces in your own environment in order to control costs, reduce lock-in, enhance security, and standardize data. You can learn more about how it works in our documentation.

Where does Observability Pipelines run?

Observability Pipelines is accessible in the Datadog UI, but can be installed anywhere in your infrastructure with a simple configuration and Datadog API key. This allows you to make decisions and control costs before data leaves your environment. To learn more about the setup process, check out our documentation here.

What happens if I send an unexpectedly high volume of data?

By committing to a monthly volume of data, you are not rate-limited based on a single day’s volume. Send as much data as you need on any given day without losing visibility. Assuming your average is lower on other days, your bill is unaffected. In those cases where you have a big month, not to worry! You maintain complete visibility and may be subject to overages only on the volumes that exceed your commitment.

Are there other billing options?

Annual and monthly plans are available. We can customize billing plans to meet your needs. For a detailed explanation of billing, please see our Billing FAQ.

Sensitive Data Scanner

Discover, classify, and redact your sensitive data
in real time at any scale

Starting At

^$ 0.30

Per scanned GB, per month*

Out-of-the-box and customizable detection rules
Sensitive data detection across all ingested data, regardless of source

*Billed annually or $0.45 on-demand

Real-time sensitive data discovery and classification
Out-of-the-box and custom rule capabilities
Fully integrated with Datadog role-based access control (RBAC)
Stream-based pattern matching across your data

Granular control over data scanning and classification with scanning groups
Fully integrated with Datadog alerts and dashboards for compliance tracking and investigation
Correlate data using standard and custom tags
Supports data from Log Management, APM, and RUM

Service and Support

Technical support across chat and email
Community Forum and Online Docs
Plans with the right level of support for your organization

When Combined with Other Plans

Pivot seamlessly to related metrics, traces, and logs during investigations
Correlate security signals and detailed observability data

Common Questions

How does Sensitive Data Scanner work?

Sensitive Data Scanner works by using pattern-matching rules to classify and track sensitive data, and optionally scrubbing or hashing that data to prevent it from being exposed. Learn more from our documentation.

Can I filter out which logs are scanned?

Yes. Datadog allows you to set up multiple scanning groups that can be used to filter logs out using tags or log attributes.

How do I set up a scanning rule?

By either using a rule from the library or defining a custom rule. Learn how in our documentation.

What are the different options for handling sensitive data?

The Datadog Agent provides you with solutions to prevent compliance-sensitive data from being sent outside of your platform, including scrubbing. Check out more info in our documentation.

How do I ensure confidentiality / access controls for my scanning rules?

Sensitive Data Scanner is fully integrated with Datadog role-based access control (RBAC) so you can easily control which roles and users have access.

Is this available in all regions?

Yes. Sensitive Data Scanner is available in all EU- and US-hosted accounts.

Are there other billing options?

Annual and monthly plans are available. We can customize billing plans to meet your needs. For a detailed explanation of billing, please see our Billing FAQ.

Do you have special offerings for partners?

We’re always looking to partner with technology and service providers and resellers. See our Partner Network page for more.

Audit Trail

Maintain compliance, enforce platform governance, and build transparency

Starting At

2% of monthly spend*

Get full visibility into user access and platform changes across all services, empowering DevOps and compliance teams with context-rich insights.

*Billed annually or 3% on-demand

Audit all access and configuration activity across Datadog Platform
Search and analyze detailed audit events for up to 90 days
Archive audit events for long-term retention

Fully integrated with Datadog alerts and dashboards for compliance tracking and investigation
Alert on critical events such as changes in index retention
Fully Integrated with Datadog role-based access control (RBAC)

Service and Support

Technical Support (Chat and Email)
Community Forum and Online Docs

When Combined with Other Plans

Pivot seamlessly to related metrics, traces, and logs during investigations
Correlate security signals and detailed observability data

Common Questions

How does Audit Trail work?

Audit Trail captures all access and configuration change activity and provides a single view to search and analyze the events. Learn more from our documentation.

How do I set up Datadog Audit Trail?

Datadog Audit Trail can be enabled in Organization Settings, in the Audit Trail Settings page. Learn more in our docs.

How do I ensure confidentiality / access controls for my Audit Trail Events?

Datadog Audit Trail is fully integrated with Datadog role-based access control (RBAC) so you can easily control which roles and users have access. Read more in our docs.

Do I need to purchase other Datadog products to use Datadog Audit Trail?

Yes.

Is this available in all regions?

Yes, Datadog Audit Trail is available in all EU- and US- hosted accounts.

Are there other billing options?

For more information about billing options, please contact your customer success representative.

Do you have special offerings for partners?

We’re always looking to partner with technology and service providers and resellers. See our Partners page for more.

Cloud Security Management

Unified view of infrastructure threats and findings

Cloud Security Posture Management

Starting At

^$ 7.50

Per host, per month*

Continuous configuration audits across cloud accounts, hosts, and containers

Configuration rules for cloud, containers, and Kubernetes
Visibility into your configuration status at any given point in time
Notify and alert on new misconfigurations
CIS, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, and other standards

*Billed annually or $9 on-demand

Cloud Workload Security

Starting At

^$ 15

Per host, per month*

Real-time threat detection across hosts and containers

Detect threats to your hosts and containers in real-time
Deep file & process activity monitoring
Performant, in-kernel, eBPF-powered analysis
Easy setup with the unified Datadog agent

*Billed annually or $18 on-demand

Service and Support

Technical Support (Chat and Email)
Community Forum and Online Docs
Plans with the right level of support for your organization

When Combined with Other Plans

One interface to correlate workload level threats or misconfiguration with application threats.
Pivot seamlessly to related metrics, traces, and logs during investigations
Correlate security signals and detailed observability data

Common Questions

Do I need to purchase both Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and Cloud Workload Security (CWS) to utilize Cloud Security Management (CSM)?: No, you could just purchase one or the other to get the unified overview from Cloud Security Management
Are there other billing options?: Annual, monthly, and hourly plans are available. We can customize billing plans to meet your needs. For a detailed explanation of billing, please see our Billing FAQ.
Is this available in all regions?: Yes. Cloud Security Management is available in all EU- and US-hosted accounts.
Do you have special offerings for partners?: We’re always looking to partner with technology and service providers and resellers. See our Partners page for more.

What kind of billing plan do I need to run Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) ?: CSPM can be purchased in addition to Infrastructure Monitoring.
How do you define a host and how do I define which hosts run CSPM?: A host is any physical or virtual OS instance that you monitor with Datadog. It could be a server, VM, node (in the case of Kubernetes) or App Service Plan instance (in the case of Azure App Services). When you enable a cloud account for CSPM, we meter and bill for hosts scanned in these cloud accounts. Additionally, if you enable the Datadog agent to scan your Docker and Kubernetes environments, we meter and bill for any additional hosts that are not already accounted for.
How do I monitor containers and kubernetes environments for security posture?: The Datadog Agent runs configuration scans against Docker and Kubernetes best practices and industry benchmarks. The agent runs in a container alongside any number of other containers on a host. From there it can collect configuration metadata from its neighboring containers and from the host itself. Depending on your plan, you can monitor 4 containers free for each host license. Additional containers will be billed at $0.001 per container per hour. In addition, you can purchase prepaid containers at $.50 per container per month.

What kind of billing plan do I need to run Cloud Workload Security (CWS) ?: CWS can be purchased in addition to Infrastructure Monitoring.
How do you define a host and how do I define which hosts run CWS?: A host is any physical or virtual OS instance that you monitor with Datadog. It could be a server, VM, node (in the case of Kubernetes), or App Service Plan instance (in the case of Azure App Services). Hosts for CWS are instances with the Datadog Agent installed, and CWS activated.
How do I monitor containers and Kubernetes workloads?: In containerized environments, the Datadog agent runs in a container alongside any number of other containers on a host. From there it monitors system activity for all running containers and for the host itself. Depending on your plan, you can monitor 4 containers free for each host license. Additional containers will be billed at $0.002 per container per hour. In addition, you can purchase prepaid containers at $1 per container per month.
Is AWS Fargate Supported?: At this time, Fargate is not supported by CWS. CWS requires access to the Linux kernel to load eBPF programs, which is not currently supported in Fargate environments.

Application Security Management

Context-aware and actionable threat detection for web-apps and APIs

Application Vulnerability Management

Starting At

^$ 10

Per host, per month*

Continuous, real-time visibility into vulnerabilities from open source libraries
Prioritize security fixes based on business impact
Fast track remediation

*Billed annually or $15 on-demand

Application Threat Management

Starting At

^$ 31

Per host, per month*

Detect OWASP attacks in real-time
Identify authenticated bad actors targeting your services
Get visibility into how your services reacted to threats

*Billed annually or $36 on-demand

Add-ons

AWS Fargate (serverless containers)

$2 per task ($2.90 on demand)

Context rich signals by leveraging distributed traces
Out-of-the-box rules to detect OWASP attacks like SSRF, SQL injections, XSS
Attack flow mapping of impacted services
Pivot to related errors, metrics, and logs during investigations

Deployment in minutes
Unlimited user accounts
15-month retention of security signals
90 day retention of suspicious requests.

Service and Support

Technical Support (Chat and Email)
Community Forum and Online Docs

When Combined with Other Plans

One interface to correlate application threats with host & workload level threats or misconfiguration

Common Questions

Is ASM a standalone offering?

ASM is only offered with Application Performance Monitoring. For all APM customers, enabling ASM is quick and easy as it leverages the unified Datadog library.

How does Application Security Management work?

ASM leverages Datadog tracing libraries, the Datadog Agent, and in-app detection rules to detect threats in your application environment and trigger signals whenever an attack targets your production system, or a vulnerability is triggered from the code.

What counts as a billable Application Security Management host?

Similar to APM, a billable ASM host is a host on which ASM is enabled and that is actively submitting spans to the Datadog SaaS application.

What languages does Application Security Management support?

Java, Ruby, Go, Node, .NET and PHP. Python is in Private Beta

Do I have to deploy the product across all my APM hosts?

No, you have the ability to choose which hosts you want to enable the product on.

Are there other billing options?

Annual, monthly and hourly plans are available. We can customize billing plans to meet your needs. For a detailed explanation of billing, please see our Billing FAQ.

Is this available in all regions?

Yes. Application Security Management is available in all EU- and US-hosted accounts.

Do you have special offerings for partners?

We’re always looking to partner with technology and service providers and resellers. See our Partners page for more.

Application Vulnerability Management

Continuous, real-time vulnerability detection across applications in production

Starting At

^$ 10

Per host, per month*

Continuous, real-time visibility into vulnerabilities from open source libraries
Prioritize security fixes based on business impact
Fast track remediation

*Billed annually or $15 on-demand

Common Questions

Is Application Vulnerability Management a standalone offering?

Application Vulnerability Management is only offered with Application Performance Monitoring. For all APM customers, enabling Application Vulnerability Management is quick and easy as it leverages the unified Datadog library.

How does Application Vulnerability Management work?

When an APM-instrumented service starts, the tracer collects the list of libraries that the application is actively loading and reports the list of vulnerabilities associated to those libraries and versions

What counts as a billable Application Vulnerability Management host?

Similar to APM, a billable Application Vulnerability Management host is a host on which Application Vulnerability Management is enabled and that is actively submitting spans to the Datadog SaaS application.

What languages does Application Vulnerability Management support?

Java, .NET, Node.JS, Python

Do I have to deploy the product across all my APM hosts?

No, you have the ability to choose which hosts you want to enable the product on.

Is this available in all regions?

Yes

Do you have special offerings for partners?

We’re always looking to partner with technology and service providers and resellers. See our Partners page for more.

Cloud SIEM

Detect and investigate security threats in real time

Starting At

^$ 0.20

Per GB of analyzed logs, per month*

Out-of-the-box and custom detection rules
Threat detection across all ingested data, regardless of retention
Security signals explorer and analytics
15-month retention of security signals

*Billed annually or $0.30 on-demand

Real-time threat detection
Vendor-supported integrations
All ingested data is analyzed
No proprietary query language required
Out-of-the-box rules automatically detect attacks and misconfigurations
Rules mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK® framework

Security analytics and dashboarding
15-month retention of security signals
Unlimited user accounts
Deployment in minutes
Pivot seamlessly to related metrics, traces, and logs during investigations

Service and Support

Technical support across chat and email
Community Forum and Online Docs
Plans with the right level of support for your organization

When Combined with Other Plans

Pivot seamlessly to related metrics, traces, and logs during investigations
Correlate security signals and detailed observability data

Common Questions

Which logs are analyzed by detection rules?

All ingested logs are analyzed by detection rules. In particular, detection rules analyze logs even if the customer decides not to index them.

What detection rules are available out of the box?

Datadog continuously releases new detection rules, which are automatically enabled for existing customers. To explore default threat detection rules, please visit our public docs.

How are detection rules categorized?

Rules that detect potential attacker techniques are mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK® framework. Rules that detect potential misconfigurations are aligned to the relevant compliance frameworks and controls.

Can users write their own custom threat detection rules?

Yes, Cloud SIEM includes a rule editor that lets users edit default detection rules or write their own. The editor does not require users to learn a proprietary query language.

Is there an additional cost for writing custom threat detection rules?

No, Cloud SIEM covers the analysis of ingested logs both by default detection rules, as well as by any user-defined detection rules.

Is there an additional cost for retaining security signals generated by detection rules?

No, Cloud SIEM covers the retention of security signals for 15 months.

Are there other billing options?

Annual and monthly plans are available. We can customize billing plans to meet your needs. For a detailed explanation of billing, please see our Billing FAQ.

Cloud Cost Management

Take control of your cloud costs

Starting At

^$ 7.50

Per host, per month*

Break down and allocate your costs at a granular level, down to an individual resource
Quickly identify top cost changes and take action on them
Empower your Engineering teams to include costs on their application dashboards

*Billed annually or $10.80 on-demand

Service and Support

Technical Support (Chat and Email)
Community Forum and Online Docs
Plans with the right level of support for your organization

When Combined with Other Plans

Pivot seamlessly to Service Catalog to understand Service performance
Unify cost data with observability data to understand cost drivers

Common Questions

How do you define and bill for hosts with CCM?

A host is any EC2 instance that appears in your AWS cost & usage report or VM in your Azure cloud bill. We use an hourly average across the entire month for metering.

Do I need to purchase other Datadog products to use Cloud Cost Management?

Having all your infrastructure, traces, and cost data in one place is something we encourage for comprehensive visibility and contextualization. However, you can use Cloud Cost Management without purchasing other Datadog products.

Are there other billing options?

Annual, monthly and hourly plans are available. We can customize billing plans to meet your needs. For a detailed explanation of billing, please see our Billing FAQ.

Which Cloud Service Providers is this available for?

Cloud Cost Management is available for AWS accounts & Azure subscription, with support for Google Cloud coming soon.

Is this available in all regions?

Yes. Cloud Cost Management is available in all EU- and US-hosted accounts.

Do you have special offerings for partners?

We’re always looking to partner with technology and service providers and resellers. See our Partners page for more.

Plans to fit your scale

Infrastructure

Log Management

APM & Continuous Profiler

Universal Service Monitoring

Database Monitoring

Synthetic Monitoring

Continuous Testing

Incident Management

Real User Monitoring

CI Visibility

Serverless Monitoring

Network Monitoring

Observability Pipelines

Sensitive Data Scanner

Audit Trail

Cloud Security Management

Application Security Management

Application Vulnerability Management

Cloud SIEM

Cloud Cost Management

See inside any stack, any app, at any scale, anywhere

Features

Free

Pro

Enterprise

Support Plans

Analyze and explore log data in context with flexible retention

Improve the performance of your cloud-scaleapplications end to end, down to a single line of code

Features

APM

APM Pro

APM Enterprise

Automatically discover, map, and monitor all your services—without changing code

Surface slow performing queries and optimize application performance

API and Browser Tests for proactive, end-to-end visibility

Fast, codeless, and reliable testing that helps you ship features with confidence

Fully integrated incident management in-app

Measure the end-to-end experience of web and mobile applications from your users’ perspective

Features

Mobile RUM

Browser RUM

Browser RUM & Session Replay

Support Plans

Monitor the health and performance of your CI pipelines and tests

Detect and resolve performance issues in your serverless apps

Support Plans

Monitor devices and traffic flows for complete network visibility

Collect, transform, and route observability data to any destination at petabyte scale

Discover, classify, and redact your sensitive datain real time at any scale

Maintain compliance, enforce platform governance, and build transparency

Unified view of infrastructure threats and findings

Context-aware and actionable threat detection for web-apps and APIs

Continuous, real-time vulnerability detection across applications in production

Detect and investigate security threats in real time

Take control of your cloud costs

Improve the performance of your cloud-scale
applications end to end, down to a single line of code

Discover, classify, and redact your sensitive data
in real time at any scale