Datadog Products
Datadog products are listed in the order data moves: collect, view, notice. Pick a name to read about that product's role, use cases, and caveats.
Collect
Products that send metrics, logs, and traces from your systems into Datadog.
Datadog AgentSoftware that runs resident on the servers and containers you monitor and delivers metrics, logs, and traces to Datadog.MetricsFrom CPU utilization to user sign-ups, metrics are the core data of Datadog, recording every number in your environment as a time series. If you understand how they are counted before how they are collected, you avoid both aggregation mistakes and billing accidents.Log ManagementLog Management is the product that gathers logs from servers, containers, and cloud services in one place and connects them to search, retention, and notification. It has a distinctive structure in which ingestion and indexing are billed separately.APMA product that follows each individual request your application receives and visualizes where the time went as a trace.IntegrationsIntegrations are the bundle of entry points that pour data from external systems such as AWS and MySQL into Datadog. Where you configure them splits into two families, the Agent side and the cloud account side, and which one you choose changes both what you can see and how billing is counted.OpenTelemetry SupportAn explainer on the intake for feeding traces / metrics / logs from apps instrumented with OpenTelemetry straight into Datadog. There are 4 ways to receive the data, and which one you choose changes which Datadog features you can use.
View
Products that visualize collected data on screen so you can read the state of your systems.
DashboardsDashboards bundle metrics, logs, and traces into a single screen and are arguably the public face of Datadog. Building one is easy; the real contest is whether you can design a single screen that people keep looking at long after it was built.Infrastructure MonitoringInfrastructure Monitoring is the product that visualizes the state of servers, containers, and cloud resources at the host level. The host map and process list let you grasp at a glance which box is struggling right now.RUMReal User Monitoring records and visualizes, as is, the speed, interactions, and errors that actual users experienced in the browser or mobile app. Even when every server-side monitor is normal, things are broken on the user's screen. It is the only viewpoint that bridges that gap.
Notice
Products that catch early signs of trouble with thresholds and synthetic checks, then notify you.
Monitors and AlertsA mechanism that watches metrics and logs with thresholds or anomaly detection and delivers signs of trouble as notifications. Monitoring is not complete with just collecting; this is where it first takes the form of moving people to act.SyntheticsExternal monitoring that keeps sending automated simulated requests from around the world so you notice failures before your users do. Even in the middle of the night when no real users are present, and on paths nobody has taken yet, a machine's eye patrols on a schedule.
Cross-cutting
Cross-cutting mechanisms used across every product.