Datadog launches Archive Search at $0.05/GB scanned annually
What happened
Between the Apr 27, 2026 and May 4, 2026 captures of Datadog's pricing page, Pulse recorded 2 changes: Archive Search added as a new priced product under Logs on the Datadog pricing page. Pricing starts at $0.05 per GB scanned (billed annually) or $0.07/GB on-demand; DevSecOps Enterprise Workload Protection scope reduced: AWS Fargate ECS/EKS removed from listed supported environments in pricing card (Linux, Windows Kubernetes, and Docker remain). Pulse files it as a packaging change (new add-on, feature change) with an upward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Sep 8, 2026) lists On-Call at $20, Incident Management at $30 and Incident Response at $40.
It lands 31 days after Datadog's previous change, "Datadog Incident Management: Governance Console added to Infrastructure Enterprise admin controls" (Apr 3, 2026). Datadog has been tracked since 2023-11-14.
In the same window Grafana, New Relic and Dynatrace also changed their Cloud & DevOps pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- — · Add-onAddedNo Archive SearchArchive Search
- — · FeatureRemovedAWS Fargate ECS/EKSNo AWS Fargate ECS/EKS
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Add-on | No Archive Search | Archive Search | Added |
| — | Feature | AWS Fargate ECS/EKS | No AWS Fargate ECS/EKS | Removed |
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 Apr 27, 2026 and May 4, 2026; the change is marked near the top of the page, where Archive Search now appears.
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Datadog, the last 90 days
Full history- Jul 3, 2026packagingDatadog Incident Management: Custom-metrics overage price hidden, DevSecOps container tier added
- May 4, 2026packagingDatadog launches Archive Search at $0.05/GB scanned annually · this change
- Apr 3, 2026improvedDatadog Incident Management: Governance Console added to Infrastructure Enterprise admin controls
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Did Datadog raise prices in May 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Apr 27, 2026 and May 4, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: new add-on, feature change.
What changed on Datadog's pricing page between Apr 27, 2026 and May 4, 2026?
Add-on: No Archive Search → Archive Search, added; feature: AWS Fargate ECS/EKS → No AWS Fargate ECS/EKS, removed. Pulse compared the captures it took on Apr 27, 2026 and May 4, 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 Incident Management: Governance Console added to Infrastructure Enterprise admin controls" on Apr 3, 2026; Datadog has been tracked since 2023-11-14.