04 — Product · PR-250
Datadog
A cloud observability service that collects metrics, traces and logs from infrastructure and applications through an agent and integrations, and adds alerting, user experience monitoring, incident handling and security monitoring on the same data. Billed by host, volume or event by product.
// FIG. 04 · Capability coverage
Each tile is an L1; the bar is how many of this product's capabilities realize something beneath it. Our judgment, not a vendor claim.
Direct & Govern
Finance
People & Workplace
Customer & Market
Products & Services
Operations & Supply
Technology & Data
Resilience & Responsibility
Industry L1s
- Plant Operations0
- Production Planning & Scheduling0
- Maintenance & Reliability0
- Manufacturing Quality & Compliance0
- Industrial Engineering & Continuous Improvement0
- Plant Safety & Environmental Compliance0
- Dealer & Distributor Network0
- Aftermarket & Service Parts0
- Platform Engineering0
- Software Product Release0
- Site Reliability12
- Developer Experience & API Ecosystem0
- Subscription & Tenant Operations0
- Product Analytics & Experimentation0
- Trust & Compliance Assurance0
- Open Source & Community0
- Merchandising & Assortment0
- Store Operations0
- E-commerce & Omnichannel0
- Category & Trade Promotion0
- Loss Prevention0
- Consumer Insights0
- Store Network & Real Estate0
- Returns & Reverse Logistics0
- Network Planning & Engineering0
- Network Build & Field Operations0
- Network Operations & Assurance0
- Subscriber Order & Activation0
- Usage Charging & Subscriber Billing0
- Content & Programming0
- Advertising Sales & Operations0
- Communications Regulatory Obligations0
Product capabilities · 9
- PC-250.10
Infrastructure Monitoring
coreCollects host, container, cloud service and network metrics through an agent and integrations, shown in dashboards and live maps.
- PC-250.20
APM and Distributed Tracing
coreTraces requests across services to show latency, errors and dependencies per endpoint, with a service map built from trace data.
- PC-250.30
Log Management
coreIngests, parses, indexes and archives logs, with pipelines that extract fields and metrics from log content.
- PC-250.40
Monitors and Alerting
coreThreshold, anomaly and composite monitors over any collected signal, routed to people and tools by tags and notification rules.
- PC-250.50
Synthetic Monitoring
strongScheduled API and browser tests that run key user journeys from managed or private locations and can gate deployments.
- PC-250.60
Real User Monitoring
strongMeasures page loads, errors and user actions in web and mobile front ends from real sessions, linked to back-end traces.
- PC-250.70
Service Level Objectives
strongDefines SLOs from monitors or metrics, tracks error budget burn and reports attainment over rolling windows.
- PC-250.80
Incident Management
partialDeclares incidents with severity and roles, keeps a timeline from alerts and chat, and drafts a postmortem from it; on-call scheduling is a newer addition.
- PC-250.90
Cloud Security
partialApplies detection rules to logs as a cloud SIEM and checks cloud and workload configuration against security baselines.