Datadog Network Monitoring shifts AI to credits, adds OTLP ingestion
What happened
Between the Jun 1, 2026 and Jun 8, 2026 captures of Datadog's pricing page, Pulse recorded 2 changes: Bits AI SRE Investigations ($500/20 investigations, $36/investigation on-demand) replaced by AI Credits ($500/500 credits, $1.30/credit on-demand); fundamental shift from per-investigation to credit-based AI product pricing; Managed Platform OTLP added as new product at $0.50 per GB of ingested spans per month; enables OTLP export from managed partners (Vercel, Cloudflare, Mulesoft) with no allotments — purely consumption-based. Pulse files it as a packaging change (package change, new plan) with an upward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Jun 14, 2026) lists Cloud Network Monitoring at $5, Network Path at $5, Network Device Monitoring at $7, NetFlow Monitoring (60-day Retention) at $0.75 and NetFlow Monitoring (30-day Retention) at $0.65.
It lands 65 days after Datadog's previous change, "Datadog Network Monitoring: Network Path added as a pivot destination" (Apr 4, 2026). Before that Pulse recorded "Datadog Network Monitoring reveals Network Path pricing at $5 per 1K tests" (Mar 11, 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.
- — · PackagingPackage change
Bits AI SRE Investigations ($500/20 investigations, $36/investigation on-demand) replaced by AI Credits ($500/500 credits, $1.30/credit on-demand); fundamental shift from per-investigation to credit-based AI product pricing.
- — · PlanAddedNo Managed Platform OTLPManaged Platform OTLP
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Packaging | Bits AI SRE Investigations ($500/20 investigations, $36/investigation on-demand) replaced by AI Credits ($500/500 credits, $1.30/credit on-demand); fundamental shift from per-investigation to credit-based AI product pricing. | Package change | |
| — | Plan | No Managed Platform OTLP | Managed Platform OTLP | Added |
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 Jun 1, 2026 and Jun 8, 2026; the change is marked near the top of the page, where Managed Platform OTLP now appears.
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Datadog, the last 90 days
Full history- Jun 8, 2026packagingDatadog Network Monitoring shifts AI to credits, adds OTLP ingestion · this change
- Apr 4, 2026improvedDatadog Network Monitoring: Network Path added as a pivot destination
- Mar 11, 2026packagingDatadog Network Monitoring reveals Network Path pricing at $5 per 1K tests
Across Cloud & DevOps in the same window
All Cloud & DevOps changesQuestions about this change
Did Datadog raise prices in June 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Jun 1, 2026 and Jun 8, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: package change, new plan.
What changed on Datadog's pricing page between Jun 1, 2026 and Jun 8, 2026?
Bits AI SRE Investigations ($500/20 investigations, $36/investigation on-demand) replaced by AI Credits ($500/500 credits, $1.30/credit on-demand); fundamental shift from per-investigation to credit-based AI product pricing; plan: No Managed Platform OTLP → Managed Platform OTLP, added. Pulse compared the captures it took on Jun 1, 2026 and Jun 8, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Datadog change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 2 other pricing-page changes for Datadog in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Datadog Network Monitoring: Network Path added as a pivot destination" on Apr 4, 2026; Datadog has been tracked since 2023-11-14.