Datadog unveils Kafka Console pricing from $100/broker host
What happened
Between the Sep 28, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026 captures of Datadog's pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: Kafka Console (self-hosted, Confluent Cloud, MSK Provisioned) moved from Contact Us for Pricing to public pricing: starting at $100 per broker host/month annual, $120 on-demand. Pulse files it as a pricing change (price revealed) with a neutral direction. Pulse's latest capture (Nov 9, 2026) lists Data Streams Monitoring - AWS Fargate at $2.90 and Data Streams Monitoring at $15.
It lands 153 days after Datadog's previous change, "Datadog Data Streams Monitoring adds AWS Fargate Workload Protection at…" (May 4, 2026). Datadog has been tracked since 2023-11-14.
In the same window Elastic, Grafana, Sumologic and Splunk also changed their Cloud & DevOps pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- ChangedKafka ConsolePrice visibilityContact Us for Pricingpublic pricing
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kafka Console | Price visibility | Contact Us for Pricing | public pricing | Changed |
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 Sep 28, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026; the change is marked near the top of the page, where "Contact Us for Pricing" becomes "public pricing".
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Datadog, pricing history
Full historyDates are the day each change was detected, Eastern time.
- Nov 1, 2026PackagingDatadog Data Streams Monitoring drops Confluent Cloud from Kafka Console support
- Oct 4, 2026Price revealedDatadog unveils Kafka Console pricing from $100/broker host This change
- Jul 2, 2026PackagingDatadog Data Streams Monitoring Data Streams Monitoring: AWS Fargate serverless add-on introduced ($2.90/instance)
- May 4, 2026PackagingDatadog Data Streams Monitoring adds AWS Fargate Workload Protection at…
Across Cloud & DevOps in the same window
All Cloud & DevOps changesQuestions about this change
Did Datadog raise prices in October 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Sep 28, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026 UTC. The change Pulse detected was a pricing change: price revealed.
What changed on Datadog's pricing page between Sep 28, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026 UTC?
Kafka Console price visibility: Contact Us for Pricing → public pricing, changed. Pulse compared the captures it took on Sep 28, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026 UTC; 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; the previous change was "Datadog Data Streams Monitoring adds AWS Fargate Workload Protection at…" on May 4, 2026; Datadog has been tracked since 2023-11-14.