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Datadog

Monitoring and security platform for cloud applications and infrastructure

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Datadog combines infrastructure monitoring, APM, log management, error tracking, real user monitoring and synthetic tests in one platform. It also offers incident response, SLO tracking, database monitoring and OpenTelemetry support, plus AI-assisted investigation through its Bits AI products.

  • Error tracking
  • Distributed tracing
  • Log management
  • Infrastructure metrics
  • Alerting and on-call routing (not listed)
  • Custom dashboards

Also includes

  • Session replay
  • Real user monitoring
  • Synthetic monitoring
  • OpenTelemetry support
  • Incident management
  • Database monitoring
  • SLO tracking

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Free plan· $10/mo 2–500+ people

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Key features

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  • Custom dashboards