Datadog

What is it?

Datadog is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) observability platform that unifies metrics, logs, traces, and security signals in a single interface. It is designed for cloud-scale, distributed, and containerized environments.

What does it do?

Datadog collects and correlates data from servers, containers, cloud services, applications, and user interactions. It enables performance monitoring (APM), log management, infrastructure monitoring, security monitoring, and alerting.

Where is it used?

Datadog is widely used in enterprise SaaS platforms, cloud-native applications, microservices architectures, DevOps teams, and organizations operating at scale on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

When & why it emerged

Datadog was founded in 2010 to address the growing complexity of monitoring cloud infrastructure. It emerged as an all-in-one observability solution to replace fragmented monitoring tools in modern DevOps environments.

Why we use it at Internative

We use Datadog for unified observability across infrastructure and applications. Its powerful correlation of metrics, logs, and traces enables faster incident response and deeper insight into system behavior.