Datadog Launches Data Quality Monitoring at $16...
What happened
Between the Jan 5, 2026 and Jan 14, 2026 captures of Datadog's pricing page, Pulse recorded 2 changes: New product Data Observability: Quality Monitoring launched at $16 per monitored table per month (billed annually) or $24 on-demand, detecting data quality issues across the data stack; Data Jobs Monitoring renamed to Data Observability: Jobs Monitoring and restructured into three tiers: Clusters (Databricks/Spark), Serverless, and Orchestrators (Airflow/dbt). Pulse files it as a packaging change (new plan, plan renamed) with an upward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Aug 3, 2026) lists App and API Protection at $31, Serverless Applications - AWS Lambda, GCP Cloud Run, Azure App Service, Azure Container Apps, Azure Function at $10 and Threat Management for AWS Fargate at $2.
Datadog's previous recorded change was "Datadog Application Security Management Enhances Enterprise Plan with Multiple SAML Providers and New Administrative Features" (Jan 11, 2026). Datadog has been tracked since 2023-11-14.
In the same window New Relic, Grafana, Dynatrace and Elastic also changed their Cloud & DevOps pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- — · PlanAddedNo Quality MonitoringQuality Monitoring
- — · PlanRenamedData Jobs MonitoringData Observability
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Plan | No Quality Monitoring | Quality Monitoring | Added |
| — | Plan | Data Jobs Monitoring | Data Observability | Renamed |
Values as written on Datadog's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.
Evidence
The two captures Pulse comparedFull-page captures of Datadog's pricing page (datadoghq.com) from Jan 5, 2026 and Jan 14, 2026; the change is marked near the top of the page, where Quality Monitoring now appears.
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Datadog, the last 90 days
Full history- Apr 11, 2026improvedDatadog Application Security Management: Governance Console added to Application Security Management Enterprise
- Apr 1, 2026packagingDatadog Application Security Management Adds Edge Device Monitoring at $5/Host/Mo
- Mar 10, 2026packagingDatadog Application Security Management Drops $5 IoT Device Monitoring Add-On
- Week 3, 2026packagingDatadog Launches Data Quality Monitoring at $16... · this change
- Jan 11, 2026improvedDatadog Application Security Management Enhances Enterprise Plan with Multiple SAML Providers and New Administrative Features
Across Cloud & DevOps in the same window
All Cloud & DevOps changes- New RelicApr 16New Relic expands platform integrations from 750+ to 780+ on pricing page
- GrafanaApr 13Grafana rewords Pro plan host hour limits as included allocations
- DynatraceApr 3Dynatrace rebrands Davis AI as Dynatrace Intelligence, overhauls pricing page
- ElasticJan 21Elastic Introduces AI Assistant for Generative AI in Enterprise Plan, Enhancing Observability Features
Questions about this change
Did Datadog raise prices in January 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Jan 5, 2026 and Jan 14, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: new plan, plan renamed.
What changed on Datadog's pricing page between Jan 5, 2026 and Jan 14, 2026?
Plan: No Quality Monitoring → Quality Monitoring, added; plan: Data Jobs Monitoring → Data Observability, renamed. Pulse compared the captures it took on Jan 5, 2026 and Jan 14, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Datadog change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 1 other pricing-page change for Datadog in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Datadog Application Security Management Enhances Enterprise Plan with Multiple SAML Providers and New Administrative Features" on Jan 11, 2026; Datadog has been tracked since 2023-11-14.