After Wireless Generation was acquired by NewsCorp, the two set out to create a product that would reduce the friction they experienced between developer and systems administration teams, who were often working at cross-purposes.

As of 2024, the company has more than 5,200 employees, the majority of which are located in the US, with offices in New York, Boston, Paris, Dublin, Denver,  San Francisco,  Amsterdam, Japan, Australia and Singapore.

[17] In November 2021, Datadog announced its acquisition of Ozcode, a live debugging solution that brings code-level visibility into production environments.

[22] In November 2022, Datadog announced its acquisition of Cloudcraft, an infrastructure modeling solution that enables you to create dynamic architecture diagrams.

[23] In April 2023, Datadog announced its acquisition of Codiga, which provides powerful static code analysis that works across the development lifecycle.

Datadog offers a range of monitoring services to support engineering teams in effectively managing their cloud or hybrid environments.

Its backend is built using a number of open and closed source technologies including D3, Apache Cassandra, Kafka, PostgreSQL, etc.