monitoring
Datadog pricing & features
Enterprise cloud monitoring — infra, APM, logs, RUM, security, LLM
End-to-end cloud observability: Infrastructure, APM, Logs, RUM, Synthetics, Database Monitoring, LLM Observability, Cloud SIEM, App + API Security. Per-host + per-GB pricing.
Data sourced from vendor documentation · Last updated May 2026
Pricing
| Tier | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Serverless Monitoring | Free | $0.13 per month per 1M invocations. |
| Free | Free | Up to 5 hosts, 1-day metric retention. Community edition of Agent. |
| Logs Ingestion | Free | $0.10 per ingested/scanned GB per month. |
| Logs Standard Index | Free | $1.70 per million log events/month. |
| Logs Flex Storage | Free | $0.05 per million events stored/month. |
| Infra Pro | $15/mo | Per host per month (annual billing). 15-month metric retention, 500+ integrations. |
| Infra Enterprise | $23/mo | Per host. Advanced features, Network Flow Monitoring. |
| APM | $31/mo | Per host (with Infra attached). Distributed tracing. |
| APM Pro | $35/mo | Per host. Continuous Profiler + Data Streams Monitoring. |
| APM Enterprise | $40/mo | Per host. App & API Protection + more. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Volume discounts, dedicated CSM, regional data residency. |
Limits
| Tier | Metric | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | apm pricing | $31 (APM) / $35 (APM Pro) / $40 (APM Ent) per host/month | APM pricing |
| — | db monitoring | Per host | DB Monitoring |
| — | hosts pricing | $15 (Pro) / $23 (Enterprise) per host/month | Infra pricing |
| — | integrations | 700+ turnkey integrations | Integrations available |
| — | llm observability | Per trace-ingested | LLM Obs |
| — | logs flex storage | $0.05 per 1M events/month | Flex storage (cheaper tier) |
| — | logs index standard | $1.70 per 1M events/month | Standard indexing |
| — | logs ingest | $0.10/GB/month ingested | Log ingest rate |
| — | region options | US1, US3, US5, EU, AP1, US1-FED (Gov) | Data region options |
| — | rum | Session-based pricing | RUM pricing model |
| — | synthetics | Per test run | Synthetics pricing |
Features
- APM — Distributed tracing + service catalog + code hotspots.
- Application Security — Runtime attack detection, threat intelligence, IAST.
- CI Visibility — Test + pipeline performance analytics.
- Cloud SIEM — Security events correlation, detection rules, audit trails.
- Continuous Profiler — Always-on CPU, memory, lock profiling in production.
- Dashboards — Pre-built + custom dashboards.
- Database Monitoring — Slow query detection for Postgres, MySQL, Mongo, Oracle, SQL Server.
- Incident Management — Built-in incident response with postmortems.
- Infrastructure Monitoring — Host, container, k8s metrics. 700+ integrations. Live process + container maps.
- LLM Observability — OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. trace + cost + prompt eval.
- Log Management — Ingest any logs, structured or raw. Pipelines, parsing, archives to S3.
- Monitors — Anomaly, forecast, outlier, composite monitors.
- Network Performance Monitoring — Packet-level analysis, flow monitoring.
- Notebooks — Runbook-style dashboards with queries + docs.
- Real User Monitoring — Frontend performance, JS errors, user sessions, Core Web Vitals.
- Serverless Monitoring — AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, Azure Functions observability.
- Service Catalog — Service inventory with ownership + documentation.
- Synthetics — Synthetic HTTP + browser tests, API tests, mobile tests.
- Workflow Automation — No-code workflows triggered by events.
Developer interfaces
| Slug | Name | Kind | Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| agent | Datadog Agent | cli | 7.x |
| mcp | Datadog MCP | mcp | — |
| rest-api | Datadog REST API | rest | v2 |
| otlp | OpenTelemetry (OTLP) | other | v1 |
| webhooks | Webhooks | other | — |
| sdk-node | dd-trace (Node) | sdk | 5.x |
| sdk-dotnet | dd-trace-dotnet | sdk | 3.x |
| sdk-go | dd-trace-go | sdk | 1.x |
| sdk-java | dd-trace-java | sdk | 1.x |
| sdk-browser | dd-trace-js (RUM) | sdk | 5.x |
| sdk-python | ddtrace (Python) | sdk | 3.x |
| sdk-ruby | ddtrace (Ruby) | sdk | 2.x |
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