The 2025 Form 10-K identifies an incident involving unauthorized access to source-code repositories in April 2025 as a cybersecurity risk disclosure.
SourcePublic company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 5, 2026
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
Business model
Stage
Public company; IPO completed in 2019
Total raised
$146.8M
Latest round
Post-IPO debt / 2029 Notes · Dec 2024
Latest amount
$1B
Sep 2019 · Public offering
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
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
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
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
The 2025 Form 10-K identifies an incident involving unauthorized access to source-code repositories in April 2025 as a cybersecurity risk disclosure.
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SourceDatadog · Jun 2026
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433 jobs at Datadog
Mar 2018 · Institutional Venture Partners
Jul 2016 · Meritech Capital Partners
Jan 2016 · OpenView Venture Partners and other participants
Feb 2015
Feb 2014
Nov 2012 · Index Ventures and RTP Ventures
Apr 2011
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Datadog Investor Relations · Mar 2026
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Datadog Engineering Blog · Oct 2025
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