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Datadog

Product

Datadog is a monitoring and analytics platform for developers, IT operations, and business users, providing observability across applications, infrastructure, and logs.

Entry price

Cloud SIEM · /mo, billed annually

Plans tracked

no add-ons

Pricing changes

Latest Wk 42 '26

Pricing model

Subscription

No free tier

Pricing Change History

8 changes

20268 changes

Oct 12, 2026

Improvement

Weekly

Datadog Cloud Siem extends security signal retention to 15 months at no cost

Cloud SIEM security signal retention extended from 12 to 15 months at no additional cost; security logs remain indexed for 12 months.

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Oct 5, 2026

Improvement

Weekly

Datadog Cloud Siem makes workflows free when triggered by security findings

Cloud SIEM now states workflows triggered from security findings and signals are free (other triggers billed separately); previously 'Workflows are billed separately'.

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Jul 27, 2026

Packaging

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Datadog Cloud Siem: free investigation allotment metric changed to per-TB

Free monthly Bits Security Analyst investigation allotment (100 investigations, min 50) now measured per 1 TB analyzed instead of per 1 billion events

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Jun 29, 2026

Packaging

Weekly

Datadog Cloud Siem cuts Cloud SIEM data retention from 15 to 12 months

Cloud SIEM security data retention reduced from 15 months to 12 months; applies to analysis window, threat hunt/investigation scope, and indexed signal storage.

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Jul 2, 2026

Packaging

Quarterly

Datadog Cloud Siem: billing switched to per-GB, retention cut to 12 months

Cloud SIEM's billing metric changed from 'per million events analyzed, per month' to 'per GB analyzed, per month'. The starting price of $5 (billed annually) / $7.50 (on-demand) is unchanged. Added a guaranteed minimum of 50 free monthly Bits Security Analyst investigations, on top of the existing allotment of 100 free monthly investigations per 1 billion events.

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Apr 22, 2026

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Datadog Cloud Siem guarantees 50 free monthly Bits AI investigations minimum

Bits AI Security Analyst footnote updated: the 100 free monthly investigations per 1 billion events allotment now carries a minimum guarantee of 50 free monthly investigations.

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Mar 31, 2026

Improvement

Weekly

Datadog Cloud Siem Doubles Detection Rules to 800+, Adds AI Analyst

Added BitsAI Security Analyst with 100 free monthly investigations per 1B events, Risk Insight Notifications, and Recorded Future integration Detection rules increased from 350+ to 800+, more than doubling pre-built security detection coverage

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Apr 4, 2026

Improvement

Quarterly

Datadog Cloud Siem Doubles Detection Rules to 800, Adds AI-Powered Investigations

New Cloud SIEM capabilities added: SQL-based detections on OCSF datasets, UEBA, Risk-based insights with notifications, AI-powered investigation (verdicts, notebooks), Threat Intelligence with Recorded Future and IoC Explorer. Out-of-the-box detection rules count more than doubled from 350 to 800, reflecting expanded threat coverage maintained by Datadog's detection engineering team.

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