Who Owns Datadog?

Olivier Pomel and Alexis Le-Quoc founded Datadog in New York in 2010 after working together at Wireless Generation. The founding insight was friction inside engineering teams: developers and operations staff monitored systems with different tools and argued over whose numbers were right. Datadog's first product put both groups on the same metrics.

The brand grew with the cloud. As companies moved workloads to AWS, the need for cloud-native monitoring grew with them, and Datadog positioned itself as the single pane of glass for infrastructure visibility. Its dog mascot and purple branding became fixtures at DevOps conferences.

The platform expanded steadily: log management and APM arrived in 2016 and 2017, real user monitoring and synthetics followed, and by the 2019 IPO Datadog was a broad observability suite rather than a metrics tool. Revenue was roughly $360 million that year and growing more than 70 percent.

Post-IPO expansion pushed into security, launching Cloud SIEM and acquiring application security firm Sqreen in 2021. The 2025 deal wave added data observability startup Metaplane, experimentation platform Eppo, and cloud security company Upwind. By late 2026 the brand marketed itself as an AI-powered observability and security platform, with the Bits AI assistant embedded across products and growth re-accelerating past 30 percent as AI workloads drove new monitoring demand.