Datadog

Datadog is a cloud monitoring platform for applications. It brings together data from servers, containers, databases and third-party services so that a whole technology stack can be observed in one place.

What Datadog offers

• Infrastructure monitoring: views from overview to deep detail across servers and containers.
• Log management: analysis and exploration of logs for faster troubleshooting.
• Application performance monitoring: monitors, optimises and investigates application performance.
• Security and observability: security tools combined with observability to respond to threats.
• Network monitoring: analysis of network traffic patterns across cloud environments.
• Real user monitoring: tracks user journeys and frontend performance.

Who it serves

DevOps teams, who use the platform to avoid downtime, resolve performance issues and make sure customers get a good user experience.

Key facts

• Analyst recognition: placed among the Leaders in Gartner's 2026 observability platform quadrant
• Analyst recognition: recognised as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Monitoring