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Datadog

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

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Pricing changes

Latest Q2 '26

Pricing model

Usage-based

No free tier

Pricing Change History

4 changes

20263 changes

Q2 '26

Improvement

Observability Pipelines: log archive now searchable via new Archive Search

Archive storage feature updated: logs stored in your chosen archive can now be searched directly via new Archive Search, replacing the prior 'rehydratable format' description.

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Wk 24 '26

Packaging

Datadog Observability Pipelines adds AI Credits, OTLP ingestion pricing

Managed Platform OTLP added to Datadog pricing at $0.50/GB ingested spans per month. Enables OTLP export from managed partners (Vercel, Cloudflare, Mulesoft, etc.) directly into Datadog without additional infrastructure. No volume or multi-year discounts. AI Credits added to Datadog pricing catalog at $500/500 credits per month (billed annually) or $1.30/credit on-demand. Replaces Bits AI SRE Investigations ($500/20 investigations). Covers Bits Chat, Bits Investigation, Bits Code, and Bits Agent Builder.

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Wk 19 '26

Improvement

Datadog Observability Pipelines replaces log rehydration with Archive Search

Observability Pipelines feature bullet for log archiving updated to reference Archive Search: 'Store logs in an archive of your choosing and explore them via Archive Search' (was: 'in a rehydratable format').

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20251 change

Q3 '25

Price decrease

Datadog Observability Pipelines Reduces Annual Per-GB Ingestion Pricing by 5% from $0.10 to $0.095

Annual per-GB ingestion pricing decreased from $0.10 to $0.095 per GB (5% decrease)

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