Companies Using Datadog

We detect Datadog on 148,622 domains, including Siemens AG, Veterans Affairs, HP. A detection means the technology is present on that domain, which for large organisations is often a single storefront or subdomain rather than a company-wide deployment. Among domains we matched to a company with a resolved industry, the most common is Restaurants (10.27%).

We detect 148,622 domains running Datadog across our monthly crawl of live business domains. Company data could be matched for 80,468 of them (54.1%), and every company-size, industry and country breakdown on this page describes that matched subset rather than the full detected base. A further 27,185 domains carried a Datadog detection previously and no longer do.

Datadog holds 5.78% of the APM & Error Tracking category, ranking #3. This is a share of the domains we detect running a platform in this category — not a share of all websites, and not a share of spending — so it is not directly comparable to figures published on other denominators.

The top alternatives to Datadog include Sentry (71.99% market share), New Relic (8.81% market share), Boomerang (2.05% market share), BugSnag (2% market share) — measured as a share of the domains we detect running a platform in this category.

United States leads with 50,840 matched Datadog domains, followed by United Kingdom (5,633), Canada (3,108), Australia (2,818), France (1,387). These are counts within the 80,468 domains we could match to a company record, not the full detected base.

62.48% of the domains where we detect Datadog belong to companies with 10 or fewer employees and 84.63% to companies under 50, across the 74,152 domains carrying a size band. That describes the detected population rather than Datadog's customer base. Companies that size do not run the infrastructure Datadog monitors; their websites run on builders that ship a browser agent for them. Companies above 1,000 staff account for 2.16% of detected domains, and those are the ones most likely to be genuine accounts.

Among the Datadog domains we could match to a company with a known founding date, the largest group was founded in the 2010s (38.57%), followed by the 2020s (24.34%). That matched subset is drawn from 80,468 companies and is not representative of all 148,622 detected domains. This suggests Datadog is most popular among relatively young companies.

The ideal Datadog customer is: Company Size: 1-10 employees, Location: US, UK, or Canada, Founded: 2010-2019, Company Age: ~7-16 years old — based on our analysis of 80,468 enriched companies at TechnologyChecker.io.

Datadog is a SaaS monitoring and analytics platform that unifies infrastructure monitoring, APM, log management, real user monitoring, security monitoring, CI/CD visibility and LLM observability in one place. It passed 1,000 integrations in October 2025 (per datadoghq.com press release), covering AWS, Azure, GCP, databases, containers and AI platforms. Most of what it does runs server-side inside a customer's own infrastructure, which is why a web crawl only ever sees the part of Datadog that loads in a browser.

By client-side footprint, Sentry is the largest technology in the APM and error tracking category at 1,851,998 domains (71.99%), with New Relic second at 226,775 (8.81%) and Datadog third at 148,622 (5.78%). Read that as a ranking of browser-visible agents rather than of observability revenue: Sentry's error SDK loads on almost every instrumented front end, while Datadog's infrastructure and APM products never reach a public page. In the enterprise observability market Datadog's closest competitors are New Relic, Dynatrace and Grafana, none of which client-side detection can size fairly.

It depends on the deployment. Datadog charges per host, starting at $15/host/month for infrastructure monitoring (per datadoghq.com/pricing/), while New Relic uses per-user pricing with a free tier that includes 100GB/month of data ingest. For small teams with high data volumes, New Relic's model can be cheaper. For large organizations with many users but fewer hosts, Datadog may cost less. G2 reviewers cite pricing as the top Datadog criticism, with 99 mentions of expense.

No. Grafana is primarily an open-source visualization and dashboarding tool that connects to multiple data sources. Datadog is a fully managed SaaS platform that collects, stores and analyzes monitoring data itself. Grafana requires separate data backends such as Prometheus or InfluxDB, while Datadog provides end-to-end collection and storage. The two are also detected very differently on the public web, so our domain counts are not a fair way to compare their adoption.

No. Datadog was incorporated in 2010 and is headquartered in New York. Co-founders Olivier Pomel (CEO) and Alexis Le-Quoc (CTO) are French-born engineers who worked together before starting the company, and Datadog went public on NASDAQ under the ticker DDOG in September 2019.

Restaurants is the largest vertical in our detection data at 10.27% (6,751 domains), followed by Financial Services at 8.48% and Retail at 6.25%, with Software Development only fourth at 4.54%. Restaurants leading an infrastructure platform is a site-builder artifact rather than a market fact: that cohort is mostly single-location independents whose sites share one builder's stack, with 5,426 of the 6,751 behind Cloudflare and 2,269 on GoDaddy. Screen the site-builder cohort out and financial services is the vertical with the strongest claim to being a genuine Datadog buyer.

Datadog uses per-host and per-volume pricing (per datadoghq.com/pricing/). Infrastructure monitoring starts at $15/host/month on Pro or $23/host/month on Enterprise, billed annually. APM is $31/host/month and log management is billed per GB indexed. A free tier covers up to 5 hosts with 1-day retention. Costs scale with host count and data volume, which is the most common complaint in G2 reviews, with 99 mentions of expense and 78 of pricing complexity.

For log management and SIEM, increasingly yes. Datadog's log management, Cloud SIEM and observability pipelines overlap with Splunk's core functionality, and pricing is published per GB indexed (per datadoghq.com/pricing/). Splunk retains advantages in on-premises deployments and in organizations with established SIEM playbooks. Many companies run both during a transition period.

Yes. Per datadoghq.com/pricing/, Datadog's free tier covers infrastructure monitoring for up to 5 hosts with 1-day metric retention and includes the Datadog Agent and access to its integrations. Datadog also offers a 14-day free trial for its paid products. APM, log management, RUM and security monitoring all require paid plans, with infrastructure Pro starting at $15/host/month billed annually.

Datadog surpassed 1,000 integrations in October 2025 (per datadoghq.com/about/latest-news/press-releases/datadog-reaches-1000-integrations-milestone/), covering AWS, Azure, GCP, databases, containers, CI/CD tools and AI platforms. G2 reviewers cite the breadth of integrations as a key pro, with 54 mentions.

Our detection data is a poor guide to this question. 62.48% of detected domains belong to companies with 10 or fewer employees, but most of those are small sites carrying a browser agent their website platform installed rather than small teams that chose Datadog. On the product itself, the free tier covers 5 hosts, pricing is per host and per volume, and cost is the most-cited criticism in G2 reviews with 99 mentions. Small teams should scope which Datadog products they actually need before adopting.