Datadog

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Datadog is a cloud-based observability and security platform for monitoring applications, infrastructure, networks, logs, data, and user experiences.

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Overview

Datadog is an American software company whose principal product is a software-as-a-service observability platform for cloud-scale applications and hybrid information-technology environments. Its tools collect, correlate, visualize, and analyze telemetry such as metrics, logs, traces, profiles, events, network data, security signals, and user-experience information. The platform is designed to give development, operations, security, and business teams a shared view of the behavior and reliability of digital services. The company was founded in New York City in 2010 by Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc. The founders had met as students at École Centrale Paris and later worked together for approximately nine years at Wireless Generation. After News Corporation acquired Wireless Generation, they pursued a product intended to reduce the operational friction between software developers and systems administrators. Datadog initially concentrated on cloud infrastructure monitoring, providing dashboards, alerting, and visualizations for technical metrics. Datadog expanded as companies adopted public-cloud and hybrid architectures. Its integrations grew to include major providers and platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Red Hat OpenShift, VMware, and OpenStack. The company broadened beyond infrastructure monitoring into application performance monitoring, log management, network monitoring, serverless monitoring, database monitoring, cloud-cost management, data observability, software delivery, and cloud application security. By October 2024, the company stated that its platform supported more than 750 integrations. A significant product turning point came in 2016, when Datadog announced a beta version of Application Performance Monitoring. This helped establish a fuller-stack proposition in which infrastructure, applications, and their dependencies could be examined within one platform rather than through disconnected monitoring products. Datadog later added security and software-development capabilities through both internal development and acquisitions. Sqreen added cloud application runtime protection, Codiga expanded static code analysis and software-development lifecycle tooling, Metaplane added data observability, and Eppo brought feature flagging and experimentation capabilities. Datadog raised venture financing during its early expansion and opened a research and development office in Paris in 2015. In 2016 it moved its New York headquarters to a full floor in the New York Times Building as its workforce grew. The company completed its initial public offering on Nasdaq in September 2019 under the ticker DDOG. Before the IPO, Datadog reportedly rejected an acquisition offer from Cisco valued at more than $7 billion, choosing to remain independent and pursue public-market growth. Datadog operates internationally, with offices and employees across North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region. Reference material reported approximately 6,500 employees in 33 countries in 2024, with about 59 percent located in the United States. Its current positioning combines unified observability, security monitoring, developer tooling, and analytics for organizations operating distributed, cloud-native, or hybrid systems. The company was added to the S&P 500 Index in July 2025 according to the supplied reference material.

History

Datadog began in New York City in 2010, founded by Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc. The two founders had met at École Centrale Paris and subsequently worked together at Wireless Generation. Their experience of organizational separation between development and systems-administration teams influenced the company's original mission: create a shared monitoring service that would make cloud infrastructure easier to observe and operate. The early Datadog product focused on infrastructure monitoring. It provided dashboards, metrics, visualizations, and alerting for servers and cloud resources, initially addressing the operational complexity created by growing use of hosted infrastructure. As cloud adoption accelerated, Datadog developed integrations with leading infrastructure and platform providers, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Red Hat OpenShift, VMware, and OpenStack. This integration-led approach allowed customers to use a common monitoring layer across multiple environments. Datadog's international and organizational expansion became more visible during the middle of the 2010s. It opened a research and development office in Paris in 2015. In 2016, the company relocated its New York headquarters to the New York Times Building, reflecting a rapidly expanding workforce. That year it also announced the beta of Application Performance Monitoring, an important product extension that connected infrastructure telemetry with application behavior and helped position Datadog as a full-stack observability provider. The company continued adding products for logs, networks, databases, serverless applications, digital experiences, cloud costs, security, and software delivery. Datadog's technical architecture includes a Go-based agent; the agent had previously been based on Python and was substantially rewritten for the sixth major version released in 2018. The wider platform uses a combination of open-source and proprietary technologies, and its integrations became a central part of its product model. Acquisitions contributed to the platform's expansion. Sqreen, completed in 2021, added runtime application-security and protection capabilities. Codiga, acquired in 2023, strengthened static code analysis and software-development lifecycle tools. In 2025, Datadog acquired Metaplane for data observability and Eppo for feature flagging and experimentation, extending the company's reach into data reliability, product analytics, and AI-oriented application development. Datadog financed its early growth through venture rounds, including a 2012 Series A, a 2014 Series B, a 2015 Series C, and a 2016 Series D. Before its public listing, Cisco reportedly offered more than $7 billion to acquire the company, but Datadog rejected the proposal. It went public on Nasdaq on September 19, 2019, under the symbol DDOG. The offering raised $648 million from the sale of 24 million shares and gave the company an initial valuation of approximately $8.7 billion, based on the supplied reference material. By 2024, the company was reported to have about 6,500 employees in 33 countries, with offices in New York, Boston, Denver, San Francisco, Paris, Dublin, Amsterdam, Sydney, Tokyo, and Singapore. Datadog's present business is centered on a unified SaaS platform for observability, security, development, data operations, and analytics across cloud and hybrid environments.

2025
Metaplane and Eppo acquisitions
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Datadog adds data observability through Metaplane and experimentation and feature-management capabilities through Eppo.
2025
Added to the S&P 500
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Datadog is reported to have joined the S&P 500 Index.
2023
Codiga acquisition
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Codiga's static analysis technology expands Datadog's developer and code-quality tooling.
2021
Sqreen acquisition closes
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Datadog adds runtime application-security and protection capabilities through the acquisition of Sqreen.
2019
Initial public offering
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Datadog lists on Nasdaq under DDOG and raises $648 million through its IPO.
2018
Go-based Agent v6 is released
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The company's monitoring agent is substantially rewritten in Go for its sixth major version.
2016
Application Performance Monitoring enters beta
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Datadog begins extending its infrastructure-monitoring platform into application performance monitoring.
2015
Paris research and development office opens
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Datadog establishes a Paris-based research and development presence.
2014
Multi-cloud support expands
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The platform broadens support for major cloud and infrastructure providers, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and OpenShift.
2012
Series A financing
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Datadog raises a reported $6.2 million Series A led by Index Ventures and RTP Ventures.
2010
Datadog is founded
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Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc establish Datadog in New York City as a cloud infrastructure monitoring company.

Products and positioning

A unified, SaaS-based observability and security platform for engineering, operations, development, data, and security teams managing cloud-scale and hybrid environments.

Observability · 2010
Infrastructure Monitoring
Datadog's infrastructure monitoring tools collect and visualize metrics from hosts, containers, virtual machines, cloud resources, and other infrastructure components. They provide dashboards, alerts, service views, and integrations intended to help operations teams identify capacity, availability, and performance problems across distributed environments.
Application observability · 2016
Application Performance Monitoring
Application Performance Monitoring traces requests and services through distributed applications. It connects application behavior with infrastructure and dependencies so engineering teams can investigate latency, errors, service relationships, and performance regressions in cloud-native and hybrid systems.
Observability
Log Management
Log Management centralizes the collection, indexing, search, analysis, and alerting of logs generated by applications, infrastructure, and services. It is designed to correlate log records with metrics, traces, and other telemetry within the wider Datadog platform.
Network monitoring
Network Performance Monitoring
Network Performance Monitoring analyzes traffic, dependencies, and network behavior across cloud and hybrid environments. It helps teams understand connectivity, latency, throughput, and the effect of network conditions on applications and services.
Cloud security · 2021
Cloud Security
Datadog's cloud-security products use telemetry from cloud environments, applications, identities, and infrastructure to support threat detection, posture management, vulnerability analysis, and security investigation. Sqreen's technology also strengthened runtime application protection within the platform.
Data operations · 2025
Data Observability
Data observability capabilities monitor data pipelines, data quality, freshness, lineage-related signals, and operational failures. Datadog expanded this area through its acquisition of Metaplane, with the stated goal of supporting data-intensive and AI-related workloads.
Developer tools · 2023
Developer and Software Delivery Tools
Datadog provides tools connected to software development and delivery, including code-quality and static-analysis capabilities obtained through Codiga, as well as release, deployment, and application-performance workflows. These products connect development activity with production observability.

Brand decisions

2025
Acquisitions of Metaplane and EppoM&A
Background
Datadog pursued adjacent capabilities in data reliability, experimentation, feature management, and AI-oriented application development.
Action taken
Datadog acquired Metaplane and Eppo during 2025.
Aftermath
The acquisitions extended the platform into data observability and product experimentation.
Source
2023
Acquisition of CodigaM&A
Background
Datadog expanded its software-development lifecycle and code-quality capabilities.
Action taken
The company acquired Codiga, a static code analysis platform.
Aftermath
Codiga's technology strengthened Datadog's developer tooling and static-analysis offering.
Source
2021
Acquisition of SqreenM&A
Background
Datadog sought to extend its observability platform into application security and runtime protection.
Action taken
Datadog completed the acquisition of Sqreen and incorporated its cloud application security capabilities.
Aftermath
The transaction broadened Datadog's platform for monitoring and protecting applications during runtime.
Source
2019
Datadog chooses an IPO over a reported Cisco acquisition offerStrategy
Background
Before its public listing, Datadog was reportedly offered more than $7 billion by Cisco, according to the supplied reference material.
Action taken
The company declined the acquisition path and proceeded with an independent Nasdaq initial public offering.
Aftermath
Datadog completed its IPO in September 2019, raising $648 million and becoming a publicly traded company.
IPO proceeds. $648 million (September 2019)
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Recent events

2026.11.04
Reported2026.11.04
Datadog introduces Scout 1.0 specialized model[3]Datadog推出Scout 1.0专用模型manilatimes.net
Datadog introduced Scout 1.0, its AI Research team's first specialized model for investigating production issues; the model is in preview and powers Bits Investigation.
2026.11.04
Reported2026.11.04
Datadog provides fourth-quarter and full-year 2026 outlook[3]Datadog推出Scout 1.0专用模型manilatimes.net
Datadog provided revenue and non-GAAP earnings outlook ranges for the fourth quarter and full year 2026.
2022.02.10
Reported2022.02.10
Datadog completes acquisition of CoScreen[4]Datadog完成对CoScreen的收购prnewswire.com
Datadog announced that it had acquired CoScreen, a collaboration platform for technical teams; the acquisition is intended to add collaboration capabilities to Datadog's platform.
2022.01.19
Reported2022.01.19
Datadog appoints Sean Walters and Kerry Acocella to executive roles[5]Datadog任命Sean Walters和Kerry Acocella担任高管职务prnewswire.com
Datadog announced the immediate appointments of Sean Walters as Chief Revenue Officer and Kerry Acocella as General Counsel. Acocella succeeds Laszlo Kopits, who is retiring from the role.
2022.01.05
Reported2022.01.05
Datadog and AWS announce global strategic partnership[6]Datadog与AWS宣布全球战略合作prnewswire.com
Datadog announced a global strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services. The companies said they would work together on tighter product alignment and joint marketing and co-selling initiatives.
2021.10.27
Reported2021.10.27
Embrace launches Datadog Marketplace integration[7]Embrace推出Datadog Marketplace整合服务prnewswire.com
Embrace announced a new integration with Datadog, available for purchase in the Datadog Marketplace, enabling customers to inspect mobile session data in the Datadog platform.
2021.10.26
Reported2021.10.26
Datadog launches Datadog Apps[8]Datadog推出Datadog Appsprnewswire.com
Datadog launched Datadog Apps, a program for technology partners to build applications that integrate with the Datadog platform. Launch partners included Embrace, Fairwinds, Harness, LaunchDarkly, PagerDuty, Rookout, and Shoreline, whose apps were available on the Datadog Marketplace.
2021.10.26
Reported2021.10.26
Rookout announces Datadog Marketplace integration[9]Rookout宣布接入Datadog Marketplacefinance.yahoo.com
Rookout announced a new integration with Datadog, and the Rookout Live Debugger is available for purchase in the Datadog Marketplace.
2021.08.04
Reported2021.08.04
Datadog launches Cloud Security Platform[10]Datadog推出云安全平台prnewswire.com
Datadog announced the launch of the Datadog Cloud Security Platform, which adds security context to its observability capabilities.
2021.07.01
Reported2021.07.01
Datadog announces Salesforce monitoring integration[11]Datadog 宣布推出 Salesforce 监控集成prnewswire.com
Datadog announced an integration with the Salesforce platform that provides Salesforce administrators and security teams visibility into user, platform, and API activity to detect and respond to suspicious behavior.

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