Datadog

Datadog, Inc. provides a monitoring and analytics platform for developers, information technology operations teams, and business users in the cloud in North America and internationally. 

The company's SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, log management, and security monitoring to provide real-time observability of its customer's technology stack. 

Its platform also provides user experience monitoring, network performance monitoring, cloud security, developer-focused observability, and incident management, as well as a range of shared features, such as dashboards, analytics, collaboration tools, and alerting capabilities. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Datadog was founded in 2010 by Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc, who met while working at Wireless Generation. After Wireless Generation was acquired by NewsCorp, the two set out to create a product that could reduce the friction they experienced between developer and systems administration teams, who were often working at cross-purposes.

They built Datadog to be a cloud infrastructure monitoring service, with a dashboard, alerting, and visualizations of metrics. As cloud adoption increased, Datadog grew rapidly and expanded its product offering to cover service providers including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Red Hat OpenShift, VMware, and OpenStack.In 2015, Datadog announced the acquisition of Mortar Data, bringing on its team and adding its data and analytics capabilities to Datadog's platform. That year, Datadog also opened a research and development office in Paris. 

In 2016, Datadog moved its New York City headquarters to a full floor of the New York Times Building to support its growing team, which doubled over the course of the year. Datadog announced the beta release of Application Performance Monitoring in 2016, offering for the first time a full-stack monitoring solution. As of 2017, the company has close to 300 employees, the vast majority of which are located in the US and a new R&D facility in Paris. Also that year, Datadog acquired the Paris-based Logmatic.io, a platform-agnostic service for querying and visualizing logs to monitor and troubleshoot online services. 

In 2019, Madumbo, an AI-based application testing platform, joined Datadog. Datadog established a Japanese subsidiary in Tokyo with enterprise technology veteran, Akiyoshi Kunimoto, as Country Manager for Japan. The mascot is a dog named Bits. In August 2022, Datadog acquired Seekret, an API observability company.

“Datadog's mission is to provide observability, analytics and insight into companies' infrastructure environment in the cloud age to solve problems for Dev and Ops teams globally.”

“We bring together data from servers, containers, databases, and third-party services to make your stack entirely observable. These capabilities help DevOps teams avoid downtime, resolve performance issues, and ensure customers are getting the best user experience.”