
Cloud Monitoring as a Service
Datadog is an enterprise-grade monitoring and security platform offering comprehensive observability across cloud infrastructure, applications, and user experiences. The platform stands out for its unified approach to monitoring consolidation and AI-powered insights, though its extensive feature set may require significant investment in adoption and configuration.

Datadog is a leading cloud-scale monitoring and security platform that provides comprehensive observability across infrastructure, applications, logs, and security for modern technology environments. Founded to address the challenges of monitoring complex, distributed systems, the company has grown to serve thousands of customers worldwide, earning recognition as a Leader in multiple Gartner Magic Quadrant reports including Observability Platforms and Digital Experience Monitoring. The platform offers an integrated suite of solutions spanning infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring (APM), log management, cloud security, real user monitoring, and AI-powered observability. Datadog enables developers, IT operations teams, and business users to gain real-time visibility into their entire technology stack, helping organizations avoid downtime, optimize performance, and maintain security across cloud-native and hybrid environments. With support for major cloud providers including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud, along with extensive integrations and OpenTelemetry compatibility, Datadog positions itself as a unified platform for monitoring consolidation. The company continues to expand its capabilities into emerging areas such as LLM observability, AI integrations, and comprehensive DevSecOps tooling.