Datadog launches Data Observability suite with ML-powered quality monitoring
What happened
Between the Jan 5, 2026 and Jan 14, 2026 captures of Datadog's pricing page, Pulse recorded 2 changes: New Data Observability: Quality Monitoring product added at $16/monitored table/month (billed annually) or $24 on-demand. Detects, resolves, and prevents data issues across data stacks with ML-powered anomaly detection and column-level lineage; Data Jobs Monitoring renamed to Data Observability: Jobs Monitoring and expanded with two new billing tiers: Serverless (Databricks) at $0.50/job/hr and Orchestrators (Airflow/dbt) at $0.10/job/hr. Existing Clusters tier unchanged at $0.05/host/hr. Pulse files it as a packaging change (new plan, package change) with an upward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Oct 28, 2026) lists Infrastructure Pro at $15, Infrastructure DevSecOps Pro at $22, Infrastructure Enterprise at $23, Infrastructure DevSecOps Enterprise at $34 and Observability Pipelines at $0.1.
Datadog's previous recorded change was "Datadog launches Data Quality Monitoring at " (Week 3, 2026). Datadog has been tracked since 2023-11-14.
In the same window New Relic, Dynatrace, Grafana, Elastic and Sumologic also changed their Cloud & DevOps pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- Data Observability: Quality Monitoring · PlanAdded
BeforeNo Quality Monitoring product
AfterQuality Monitoring product
- Existing Clusters · PackagingRenamedData Jobs MonitoringData Observability
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data Observability: Quality Monitoring | Plan | No Quality Monitoring product | Quality Monitoring product | Added |
| Existing Clusters | Packaging | Data Jobs Monitoring | Data Observability | Renamed |
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 Jan 5, 2026 and Jan 14, 2026; the change is marked near the top of the page, where Quality Monitoring product now appears.
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Datadog, the last 90 days
Full history- Mar 10, 2026packagingDatadog drops $5/device IoT monitoring
- Mar 10, 2026packagingDatadog SCA Drops IoT Device Monitoring Add-On From Pricing
- Feb 16, 2026increaseDatadog unbundles APM at $36–$47/host, adds Recommendations
- Week 3, 2026packagingDatadog launches Data Observability suite with ML-powered quality monitoring · this change
- Week 3, 2026packagingDatadog launches Data Quality Monitoring at ...
- Week 3, 2026packagingDatadog Launches Data Quality Monitoring at $16...
- Week 3, 2026packagingDatadog launches Data Observability at $16/table/month
- Week 3, 2026packagingDatadog rebrands to Data Observability with three new tiers
- Week 3, 2026packagingDatadog launches Data Observability suite with new monitor...
- Week 3, 2026packagingDatadog Network Monitoring launches Data Observability suite with Quality Moni...
Across Cloud & DevOps in the same window
All Cloud & DevOps changes- New RelicApr 3New Relic Expands Integration Marketplace to Over 780 Connections
- DynatraceApr 3Dynatrace rebrands Davis AI as Dynatrace Intelligence, overhauls pricing page
- GrafanaApr 3Grafana Splits Log Pricing Into Three Stages, Cuts Kubernetes Costs 33%
- ElasticJan 21Elastic Introduces AI Assistant for Generative AI in Enterprise Plan, Enhancing Observability Features
- SumologicJan 12Sumologic Shifts Pricing Metric from TB to GB Scanned, Enhancing Granularity by 1000x
Questions about this change
Did Datadog raise prices in January 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Jan 5, 2026 and Jan 14, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: new plan, package change.
What changed on Datadog's pricing page between Jan 5, 2026 and Jan 14, 2026?
Data Observability: Quality Monitoring plan: No Quality Monitoring product → Quality Monitoring product, added; Existing Clusters packaging: Data Jobs Monitoring → Data Observability, renamed. Pulse compared the captures it took on Jan 5, 2026 and Jan 14, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Datadog change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 9 other pricing-page changes for Datadog in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Datadog launches Data Quality Monitoring at ..." in Week 3, 2026; Datadog has been tracked since 2023-11-14.