Datadog is a cloud monitoring and security platform that unifies infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring (APM), log management, and security monitoring for DevOps, SRE, and security teams. Founded by Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc, it correlates metrics, traces, and logs across 750+ integrations to give engineering teams a single view of their stack. Publicly traded on Nasdaq (DDOG), Datadog is widely used by cloud-native and enterprise organizations and is consistently positioned as a leader in the observability category, alongside frequent scrutiny of its usage-based pricing model.