Datadog, Inc.

What does Datadog do?

Datadog sells subscription software that monitors cloud infrastructure and applications. Its platform collects metrics, traces, and logs, then uses them for alerting, troubleshooting, security monitoring, and analytics across customer environments.

Is Datadog publicly traded?

Yes. Datadog trades on the NASDAQ under ticker DDOG. It went public in September 2019 and is a member of the NASDAQ-100 index.

Who founded Datadog?

Olivier Pomel and Alexis Le-Quoc founded the company in New York in 2010. Pomel remains CEO. Both founders previously worked at education software company Wireless Generation.

What is Datadog's revenue?

Datadog reported $3.43 billion in revenue for fiscal 2025, up 28 percent year over year. Trailing twelve-month revenue through Q3 2026 reached $4.28 billion.

Where is Datadog headquartered?

Datadog is headquartered in New York City. It has significant engineering operations in France, which employs about a third of its workforce, and offices across 35 countries.

Olivier Pomel and Alexis Le-Quoc, both veterans of ad tech and education software company Wireless Generation, founded Datadog in 2010. The original insight came from watching engineering teams argue over monitoring data: developers and operations staff used different tools and different vocabulary. Datadog's first product unified infrastructure metrics so both groups worked from the same numbers.

The company raised venture funding through the 2010s from Index Ventures, OpenView, ICONIQ, and others. It launched its log management and application performance monitoring products in 2016 and 2017, converting from a metrics tool into a broad observability platform. Real user monitoring and synthetics followed.

Datadog went public on the NASDAQ in September 2019, pricing shares at $27 and finishing the first day with a valuation near $10 billion. Revenue then was roughly $360 million and growing more than 70 percent per year.

Post-IPO, the company expanded aggressively into security. It acquired Sqreen for application security in 2021, launched Cloud SIEM, and built out cloud security posture management. The 2025 deal pace accelerated: it bought data observability startup Metaplane, experimentation platform Eppo, and cloud security firm Upwind, moves that pushed the platform toward data engineering and runtime protection.

Fiscal 2025 closed with $3.43 billion in revenue, up 28 percent, and $915 million in free cash flow. Growth re-accelerated during 2026, with Q3 revenue up 35 percent year over year as AI-related workloads drove monitoring consumption. Co-founder Olivier Pomel has been CEO throughout.

Datadog's direct footprint is offices and compute usage for its SaaS platform. It publishes environmental and workforce disclosures in line with large-cap software peers and reports on diversity metrics in its annual filings. The company is not B Corp certified, and its sustainability posture is typical of the sector: modest direct impact, meaningful but not product-linked.

Datadog has faced no major regulatory actions. Its main public criticisms are commercial rather than legal: customers periodically complain about billing complexity and cost escalation under usage-based pricing, a recurring theme in observability generally. The company has also navigated the standard scrutiny applied to vendors holding sensitive operational data, and it maintains SOC 2, ISO 27001, and FedRAMP authorizations for government work.