Datadog Continuous Profiler
LeaderDatadog provides cloud-scale monitoring and security for metrics, traces and logs in one unified platform.
Est 2010|Valuation $91.4B|Raised $795.9M
Datadog provides cloud-scale monitoring and security for metrics, traces and logs in one unified platform.
Published May 16, 2026
| Starting Price | Published usage- and metering-based pricing; host and container metering with included allowances and incremental charges beyond included capacity. | Published host/hour-oriented pricing and includes code-level profiling in the package. | Published per-data-ingestion pricing; free tier exists; pay-as-you-go above included usage. |
| Best For | Organizations standardized on Datadog APM and infrastructure monitoring that want an integrated trace-to-profile workflow. | Enterprises seeking an integrated APM and profiling suite with topology and automation features. | Teams preferring a managed continuous profiling service built on open-source tooling or those seeking per-ingestion pricing for easier modeling. |
| Key Strength | Enables navigation from traces to profiles within the same platform and supports profile comparison and tag-based slicing. | Bundled profiling within a full-stack monitoring subscription and automation-oriented features. | Clearer consumption model for profiling as ingestion data and alignment with open-source profiling formats. |
| Key Weakness | Cost governance and pricing complexity reported by users; host/container metering can be hard to forecast at scale. | May involve enterprise sales motions and minimum spends in practice; suitability depends on organizational preferences. | Profiling is one component; organizations may need to integrate APM, tracing, logs, and other observability components separately. |