Datadog

What it is for

Datadog is a hosted traces desk: you open Trace Explorer, and Infrastructure Free is 5 hosts. Use it when the job is spans you search at a public $, not when you need a $20 chat seat.

What makes it unique: the cover is the official Datadog Trace Explorer (env:development, LIVE Past 15 minutes, hello GET / 1.06 ms 200, Service Entry Spans) from the docs still — not a pricing card. The rows themselves are ops of Traces. Datadog bills $15 / host (Infra Pro) plus APM, not a chat seat.

Key features

• Trace Explorer — ingested / indexed spans you search (cover still; docs). One desk. Cover hello GET / and 1.06 ms sit here.
• Trace View — a flame graph / span list you open (docs). A trace, not the list. Waterfall sits here.
• Service Catalog — a service row you filter (docs). A service, not a trace. hello / env:development sit here.
• Monitors — an alert you fire on a metric / span (docs). A monitor, not a service. Thresholds sit here.
• Dashboards — a widget board you export to (docs). A dashboard, not a monitor. Timeseries sit here.

The List / Timeseries / Top list toggles on the cover are the same Traces pipeline (not a sixth desk). Infra Pro $15 / host / month is the meter. Standalone APM $36 / host / month is the extra meter, not a desk we fold into Trace Explorer.

Who it's for

Best fit: ops / app teams who will stay on Infrastructure Free (up to 5 hosts) while they open a first Trace Explorer list, then buy Infra Pro at $15 / host / month when they need longer retention — and APM at $36 / host / month standalone when they instrument traces.

Pricing

Verified 2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) from datadoghq.com/pricing. Tiles print Infrastructure starting at $15 and $23 per host per month. APM FAQ prints standalone $36 / $41 / $47 per host per month billed annually.

• Infrastructure Free — up to 5 hosts on the Free column we fetched (standard events and metrics).
• Infrastructure Pro — starts at $15 / host / month.
• Infrastructure Enterprise — starts at $23 / host / month.
• APM (standalone) — $36 / host / month billed annually ($36 on-demand on the FAQ we fetched).
• APM Pro / Enterprise (standalone) — $41 and $47 / host / month billed annually.
• Containers — 5 or 10 included per host license depending on plan; extra $0.002 / container / hour, or prepaid $1 / container / month.

Confirm checkout; annual vs on-demand deltas are on the same page. Taxes follow your location.

Limitations / costs

• $15 is per host, not a seat. 20 Pro hosts is $300 / month before APM.
• Standalone APM is $36 / host on the FAQ we fetched — on top of or instead of Infra, depending on the attach model.
• A traces desk, not a Sentry Issues feed. For Sentry see Sentry. For Honeycomb see Honeycomb.

Alternatives

• Sentry — issues feed when you want Sentry’s $0 / $26 errors, not Datadog’s $15 / $36 Trace Explorer.
• Honeycomb — wide events when you want Honeycomb’s query desk, not Datadog’s hello GET / row.
• AppSignal — APM graphs when you want AppSignal’s gauge, not Datadog’s 1.06 ms span.

Official tutorial

Official Datadog channel video: Datadog Application Performance Monitoring (APM) (oEmbed author: Datadog). First-party APM walkthrough; the Trace Explorer still is the cover. Flame graphs on the video are a second desk, not generate-on-Explorer.

Written path: datadoghq.com/pricing plus the Trace Explorer still.

Website

https://www.datadoghq.com

Repository

https://github.com/DataDog

Source

Catalog row curated for AI Tools Nav. Cover is the official Datadog Trace Explorer still from the docs CDN. Dollars checked on datadoghq.com/pricing (Infra Pro $15/host; Enterprise $23/host; APM standalone $36/host annual). Tutorial oEmbed author: Datadog.

Last verified

2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) editorial check.