Datadog

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Updated Aug 5, 2026

Overview

Datadog, Inc. is a public SaaS company founded in 2010 that provides an AI-powered observability and security platform for cloud applications. It unifies telemetry and operational data across infrastructure, applications, logs, networks, user experience, security, software delivery, and business systems so teams can detect, investigate, secure, and resolve problems.

Primary product

Datadog unified observability and security platform, including Infrastructure Monitoring, APM, Log Management, Network Monitoring, Digital Experience Monitoring, Cloud Security, CI/CD and Software Delivery, Cloud Cost Management, Incident Management, and AI agents.

Founded

2010

Headquarters

620 8th Avenue, 45th Floor, New York, New York 10018, United States

Team size

8,000–8,500 (approximately 8,100 at December 31, 2025)

Work style

Hybrid

Industry

Software Development / Enterprise Software

Sub-industry

Cloud observability, application performance monitoring, cybersecurity, IT operations management, and developer tools

Offices

New York City / Times Square, United States

Boston, United States

Denver, United States

San Francisco, United States

Paris, France

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Bengaluru, India

Dublin, Ireland

Lisbon, Portugal

Tokyo, Japan

Business model

Cloud-hosted SaaS subscriptions

Usage- and consumption-based pricing

Land-and-expand enterprise sales

Self-service product adoption and cross-product expansion

Enterprise contracts and premium support

Funding

Stage

Public company; IPO completed in 2019

Total raised

$146.8M

Latest round

Post-IPO debt / 2029 Notes · Dec 2024

Latest amount

$1B

2029 senior notes / post-IPO debt

Dec 2024

$1B

IPO

Sep 2019 · Public offering

$648M

Unattributed venture round

Mar 2018 · Institutional Venture Partners

Secondary market

Jul 2016 · Meritech Capital Partners

Series D

Jan 2016 · OpenView Venture Partners and other participants

$95M

Series C

Feb 2015

Series B

Feb 2014

Series A

Nov 2012 · Index Ventures and RTP Ventures

$6.2M

Seed / early financing

Apr 2011

People & investors

Leadership

Olivier Pomel

CEO and Co-founder

Alexis Lê-Quôc

CTO and Co-founder

David Obstler

Chief Financial Officer

Adam Blitzer

Chief Operating Officer

Yanbing Li

Chief Product Officer

Sara Varni

Chief Marketing Officer

David Galloreese

Chief People Officer

Sean Walters

Chief Revenue Officer

Emilio Escobar

Chief Information Security Officer

Kerry Acocella

General Counsel

Investors

Amplify Partners

Battery Ventures

Contour Venture Partners

IA Ventures

ICONIQ Capital

Index Ventures

Institutional Venture Partners (IVP)

Meritech Capital Partners

NYCSeed

OpenView Venture Partners

RTP Ventures

Work & culture

Datadog describes a people-first, collaborative engineering culture focused on solving difficult distributed-systems problems pragmatically, professional development, inclusion, innovation, and ownership across the software lifecycle. The company emphasizes office collaboration while supporting hybrid work and some remote roles.

Work style

Hybrid

Visa sponsorship

Limited

Compensation

Compensation generally combines salary, equity/RSUs, bonus or variable compensation, and ESPP. A 2026 senior software-engineer posting listed $192,000–$240,000 base salary plus equity and benefits; third-party H-1B data indicates sponsorship for selected roles, not universal sponsorship.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Mental-health program and 10 free annual appointments for employees and dependents

Paid gender-neutral parental leave

Family-forming benefits in eligible offices

Flexible paid time off

Fitness reimbursements in eligible offices

401(k) or pension matching where applicable

Employee Stock Purchase Plan with stated 15% discount

RSUs and equity

Learning, development, mentoring, and career-pathing programs

Relocation support

Commuter benefits and remote-work equipment/Wi-Fi reimbursements

Pet adoption assistance and insurance in eligible locations

Product & market

Pricing

Module-specific SaaS pricing, typically based on hosts, users, monitored services, data ingestion/retention, events, or other usage metrics; free trials and self-service entry points coexist with enterprise contracts.

Differentiators

—Unified metrics, traces, logs, profiles, user sessions, security signals, and events on a common data model
—1,000+ integrations and broad cloud/vendor coverage
—Cloud-agnostic deployment across public, private, and hybrid environments
—Short time to value and self-service installation
—Land-and-expand product adoption
—Large-scale real-time processing and querying
—Integrated observability, security, software delivery, service management, and AI capabilities
—Bits AI agents and AI-native investigation/remediation workflows

Technology

Python

Java

React

TypeScript

Redux

Ruby

C++

PHP

Rust

Kubernetes

Kafka

FoundationDB

Apache Arrow

Apache Parquet

Substrait

Apache DataFusion

OpenTelemetry

Multi-region and multi-cloud infrastructure

Customers

32,700 customers across 160+ countries as of December 31, 2025

Fortune 500 companies

High-growth AI companies

Organizations across financial services, retail, media, technology, healthcare, and public sectors

Examples publicly associated with Datadog include Samsung and Yahoo

Competitors

Dynatrace

New Relic

Splunk

Grafana Labs

Elastic

Microsoft Azure Monitor

Amazon CloudWatch

Google Cloud Operations

Cisco AppDynamics

Sentry

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

$3.4B–$3.5B annual revenue; FY2025 reported revenue was $3.4272B

Estimated monthly visits

6.3M

Traffic estimate as of Aug 2026

Signals & risks

Other

Apr 2025

The 2025 Form 10-K identifies an incident involving unauthorized access to source-code repositories in April 2025 as a cybersecurity risk disclosure.

Source

Acquisition

Jun 2026

Datadog announced acquisition of Adaptive ML, a reinforcement-learning-operations startup, to expand its AI research and agent/model capabilities.

Source

Latest news

Datadog Acquires Adaptive ML to Accelerate Its Investment in AI Research and Development

Datadog · Jun 2026

Datadog acquired Adaptive ML and said the team would join Datadog AI Research to work on frontier AI infrastructure, world models, and agentic post-training.

Datadog Launches 100+ Capabilities to Help Customers Drive Autonomy and Manage Growing AI and Security Complexity

Datadog / GlobeNewswire · Jun 2026

At DASH 2026 Datadog announced more than 100 capabilities, including expanded Bits AI autonomy, AI Guard, Bring Your Own Cloud, Bits Agent Builder, and Agent Console.

Datadog Announces First Quarter 2026 Financial Results

Datadog Investor Relations · May 2026

Datadog reported approximately 4,550 customers with at least $100,000 ARR, launched GPU Monitoring and Experiments, and announced general availability of Bits AI Security Analyst and MCP Server.

Datadog Launches MCP Server to Provide AI Agents with Secure, Real-Time Access to Unified Observability Data

Datadog Investor Relations · Mar 2026

MCP Server became generally available, connecting AI coding agents and IDEs to governed, real-time Datadog logs, metrics, traces, and remediation signals.

Inside Husky’s query engine: Real-time access to 100 trillion events

Datadog Engineering Blog · Oct 2025

Datadog described Husky, its third-generation event store, which supports very large-scale event querying using multi-region services, FoundationDB metadata, caching, pruning, and distributed query architecture.

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