13 Facts About Datadog

Datadog is an observability service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services, through a SaaS-based data analytics platform.

Datadog was founded in 2010 by Olivier Pomel and Alexis Le-Quoc, who met while working at Wireless Generation.

In 2015, Datadog announced the acquisition of Mortar Data, bringing on its team and adding its data and analytics capabilities to Datadog's platform.

In 2016, Datadog moved its New York City headquarters to a full floor of the New York Times Building to support its growing team, which doubled over the course of the year.

Datadog announced the beta-release of Application Performance Monitoring in 2016, offering for the first time a full-stack monitoring solution.

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In 2019, Datadog established Japanese subsidiary in Tokyo with enterprise technology veteran, Akiyoshi Kunimoto, as Country Manager for Japan.

Datadog uses a Go based agent, rewritten from scratch since its major version 6.

In 2014, Datadog support was broadened to multiple cloud service providers including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Red Hat OpenShift.

In 2010, Datadog launched with a seed round, with participation by NYC Seed, Contour Venture Partners, IA Ventures, Jerry Neumann and Alex Payne, among others.

In 2014, Datadog raised a $15 million Series B round led by OpenView Venture Partners, followed by a $31 million Series C round led by Index Ventures in 2015.

Datadog went public on the Nasdaq exchange on September 19, 2019, selling 24 million shares and raising $648 million.

Datadog was listed in Forbes' Cloud 100 and was ranked in the top ten fastest growing companies in North America in Deloitte's 2016 Fast 500 List.

Datadog was listed on Wealthfront's 2017 Career-Launching Companies List and Business Insider's 51 enterprise startups to bet your career on in 2017.