Datadog

Cloud-scale monitoring and analytics — unified observability for modern applications.

Category: monitoringFirst released: 2010Created by: Olivier Pomel, Alexis Lê-QuôcLicense: ProprietaryPlatforms: Web, Linux, macOS, Windows

Datadog is a comprehensive monitoring and analytics platform that provides unified observability across infrastructure, applications, logs, and user experience. Its agent-based architecture collects metrics, traces, and logs from hundreds of integrated technologies, unifying them into correlated dashboards and intelligent alerts. Datadog APM (Application Performance Monitoring) provides distributed tracing with flame graphs and service maps for microservice architectures, while Infrastructure Monitoring tracks hosts, containers, and cloud services. Features like Watchdog anomaly detection use machine learning to automatically surface performance issues, and the log management platform supports real-time searching and filtering with correlation to metrics and traces. Datadog serves organizations from startups to the Fortune 500, providing end-to-end visibility into complex, distributed systems.

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Unified metrics, traces, and logsDistributed tracing and service mapsAPM with flame graphsWatchdog ML anomaly detectionReal-time log managementInfrastructure monitoring800+ integrations