Datadog Features
Metrics, Traces, & Logs
Customer Scenarios
Datadog History
Datadog Pricing
100

The three pillars of observability.

What are metrics, traces, & logs? 

100

This Datadog product shows the end-to-end journey of a request across multiple services.

What is APM? (or What are distributed traces?)

100

A customer’s bill increased suddenly. The first step should be reviewing this.

What is the Plan & Usage page?

100

Datadog's CEO. 

Who is Olivier Pomel? 

100

For standard Infrastructure Pro monitoring, this is the cost per host when billed annually.

What is $15 per host? 

200

The features that are bundled into APM Enterprise. 

What is APM, Data Streams Monitoring, and Continuous Profiler?

200

This is the allotted number of Custom Metrics per Infrastructure Pro Host. 

What is 100 Custom Metrics?

200

A customer asks for a discount at renewal. One way to justify better pricing without reducing value is by offering this type of contract structure.

What is a multi-year agreement?

200

This is Datadog’s stock ticker symbol.

What is DDOG? 

200

RUM is billed in a bundle of this many sessions. 

What is 1K sessions? 

300

This Datadog AI-powered feature automatically surfaces anomalies, root causes, and performance insights across your environment.

What is Bits AI?

300

When correlating across metrics, logs, and traces in one view, this is Datadog’s key advantage.

What is unified observability?

300

A customer is new to Datadog and is looking for a free training resource. You offer this.

What is a foundational enablement session? 

300

Datadog was founded in this year. 

What is 2010? 

300

These are the discounts on a multi-year contract.

What is 5% for year two and 10% for year 3? 

400

These are the four Pro+ monitors. 

What is Anomaly Detection, Forecast Monitoring, Live Processes, and Watchdog. 

400

These are all the data retention periods we offer for logs. 

What is 3, 7, 15, 30, 45, 60, 90, and 180 day retention?

400

A customer is receiving too many monitor notifications and ignoring them. This issue is called this.

What is alert fatigue? 

400

Before expanding into security and user monitoring, Datadog was primarily known for this type of monitoring.

What is infrastructure monitoring?

400

When committing to an annual plan, these are the different premiums associated with paying on bi-annual, quarterly, and monthly payment frequencies.

What is 5% premium for biannual payments, 7.5% premium for quarterly payments, and 10% premium for monthly payments? 


500

With RUM Without Limits, customers ingest 100% of sessions but only pay higher retention costs for this subset.

What are indexed sessions?

500

All logs sent into Datadog count toward this, while only the searchable subset counts toward indexed volume.

What are ingested logs vs. indexed logs?

500

A customer has infrastructure monitoring but struggles to debug application issues. You recommend adding this product.

What is APM?

500

Datadog’s IPO was considered one of the strongest tech IPOs of this year.

What is 2019?

500

Datadog previously billed Custom Metrics based on total cardinality, but now offers an additional pricing model based on this.

What is metric name? 

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