Datadog

Pricing and hosting

Pricing

Free plan

Free plan

5 hosts, 1-day metric retention

Open source

No

Self-hosted

No

Launched

2012

Status

Active

Website

datadoghq.com

Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.

What it does

Observability platforms checklist

10 of 10 confirmed in Datadog's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Platforms.

• + OpenTelemetry (OTLP) ingest Yes
• + Metrics Yes
• + Logs Yes
• + Distributed traces Yes
• + APM Yes
• + Real user monitoring Yes
• + Synthetic checks Yes
• + Continuous profiling Yes
• + Built-in alerting Yes
• + SLO tracking Yes

Checked against: docs.datadoghq.com, docs.datadoghq.com (2), docs.datadoghq.com (3), docs.datadoghq.com (4), docs.datadoghq.com (5), docs.datadoghq.com (6)

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