Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a cloud-based monitoring and observability platform that helps organizations monitor, troubleshoot and secure their applications and infrastructure at scale. Its software-as-a-service offering collects and analyzes metrics, traces and logs from servers, containers, cloud services and applications to provide real-time visibility into system performance and health. Datadog’s platform is widely used by engineering, operations and security teams to reduce downtime, accelerate incident response and improve application reliability.
The company’s product suite includes infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring (APM), log management, real user monitoring (RUM), synthetic monitoring and network performance monitoring, along with security-focused products such as security monitoring and cloud SIEM. Datadog provides a lightweight agent and native integrations for major cloud providers and orchestration platforms, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes and popular web and database technologies, enabling centralized telemetry and unified dashboards.
Datadog was founded in 2010 by Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc and completed a public offering in 2019. Headquartered in New York City, the company serves a global customer base across industries that are adopting cloud-native and hybrid architectures. Its platform is designed to scale with customers from small development teams to large enterprises operating distributed systems.
Olivier Pomel, one of the co-founders, serves in a leadership role and the company continues to expand its integrations and capabilities to address evolving observability and security needs. Datadog’s emphasis on an integrated, extensible telemetry platform and a broad partner ecosystem positions it as a common choice for organizations seeking a single-pane view of operational and security signals across cloud environments.