Datadog Expands CSM Pro Plan Features, Including Vulnerability Management for Containers & Hosts
What happened
Between the Nov 17, 2024 and Jan 1, 2025 captures of Datadog's pricing page, Pulse recorded 5 changes: Comprehensive inventory of cloud resources & linked risks explicitly added to CSM Pro plan; CSM Pro Containers allotment threshold added: 5 containers per host per month; Case management moved from Enterprise-only to both CSM Pro and Enterprise plans; Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) moved from Enterprise-only to CSM Pro plan; Vulnerability Management expanded from 'container images only' to 'Containers & Hosts' in CSM Pro plan. Pulse files it as a packaging change (feature added, threshold added, feature change) with an upward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Oct 5, 2026) lists CSM Pro at $10 and CSM Enterprise at $25.
This is the first pricing-page change Pulse has recorded for Datadog. Datadog has been tracked since 2023-11-14.
In the same window Elastic, Dynatrace and Grafana also changed their Cloud & DevOps pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- CSM Pro · FeatureAdded
BeforeNot listed
AfterComprehensive inventory of cloud resources & linked risks explicitly
- CSM Pro · LimitAdded
BeforeNot listed
AfterCSM Pro Containers allotment threshold
- CSM Pro · FeatureChanged
BeforeEnterprise-only
Afterboth CSM Pro and Enterprise plans
- CSM Pro · FeatureChangedEnterprise-onlyCSM Pro plan
- CSM Pro · FeatureRewordedcontainer images onlyContainers & Hosts
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSM Pro | Feature | Not listed | Comprehensive inventory of cloud resources & linked risks explicitly | Added |
| CSM Pro | Limit | Not listed | CSM Pro Containers allotment threshold | Added |
| CSM Pro | Feature | Enterprise-only | both CSM Pro and Enterprise plans | Changed |
| CSM Pro | Feature | Enterprise-only | CSM Pro plan | Changed |
| CSM Pro | Feature | container images only | Containers & Hosts | Reworded |
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 Nov 17, 2024 and Jan 1, 2025; the change is marked on the page, where Comprehensive inventory of cloud resources & linked risks explicitly now appears.
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Datadog, pricing history
Full history- Mar 10, 2026packagingDatadog Cloud Security Management Drops IoT Device Monitoring Add-On
- Jan 11, 2026packagingDatadog Cloud Security Management Removes Case Management from DevSecOps Pro Plan, Impacting User Experience and Feature Set
- Q2 2025packagingDatadog Cloud Security Management Discontinues Standalone Cloud Security Management Plans, Introduces Bundled DevSecOps SKUs
- Dec 2024improvedDatadog Expands CSM Pro Plan Features, Including Vulnerability Management for Containers & Hosts · this change
Across Cloud & DevOps in the same window
All Cloud & DevOps changes- ElasticJan 11Elastic Introduces 99.95% Uptime SLA for Platinum and Enterprise Tiers in Comparison Table
- DynatraceJan 11Dynatrace Expands Services Flexpoints Pricing with Daily Rates for Lead Consultant and Architect Services
- GrafanaJan 10Grafana Transforms Pro Plan to Pure Pay-As-You-Go Model Starting at $0, Renames All Plans
Questions about this change
Did Datadog raise prices in January 2025?
No list-price increase was recorded between Nov 17, 2024 and Jan 1, 2025. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: feature added, threshold added, feature change.
What changed on Datadog's pricing page between Nov 17, 2024 and Jan 1, 2025?
CSM Pro feature: Not listed → Comprehensive inventory of cloud resources & linked risks explicitly, added; CSM Pro limit: Not listed → CSM Pro Containers allotment threshold, added; CSM Pro feature: Enterprise-only → both CSM Pro and Enterprise plans, changed; CSM Pro feature: Enterprise-only → CSM Pro plan, changed; CSM Pro feature: container images only → Containers & Hosts, reworded. Pulse compared the captures it took on Nov 17, 2024 and Jan 1, 2025; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Datadog change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 0 other pricing-page changes for Datadog in the 90 days before this one; Datadog has been tracked since 2023-11-14.
