Datadog is a monitoring service for cloud-scale applications, bringing together data from servers, databases, tools, and services to present a unified view of an entire stack. These capabilities are provided on a SaaS-based data analytics platform.
Datadog allows you to build graphs and alerts with individual hosts, services, processes, and metrics, or with almost any combination of them. For example, you can monitor all your hosts, or all NGINX hosts in a specific Availability Zone, or you can monitor one key metric for all hosts with a specific tag.
Technology
Datadog uses a Python based, open-source agentforked from the original created in 2009 by David Mytton for Server Density (previously called Boxed Ice). Its backend is built using a number of open and closed source technologies including D3, Apache Cassandra, Kafka, PostgreSQL, etc.
In 2014, Datadog support was broadened to multiple cloud service providers including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Red Hat OpenShift. Today, the company supports over 150 integrations out-of-the-box.
History
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 system-admin teams, who were often working at cross-purposes.
They built Datadog to be a complete cloud infrastructure monitoring service, with an intuitive dashboard, effective alerting, and helpful visualizations of key metrics. As cloud adoption increased, Datadog grew rapidly and expanded its product offering to cover service providers including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Red Hat OpenShift, 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, putting its resources towards developing new technologies and services for its customers.
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 further cemented its leadership position in the cloud monitoring space with the beta-release of Application Performance Monitoring in 2016, offering for the first time a full-stack monitoring solution.