Datadog
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Records 3
- caveatDatadog (free)
Developer servicesfree tieridentity emailno cardlimit retention-clampedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-01disagrees
- fails: identityDatadog (Compute)
Computefree tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-01
- fails: identityDatadog (Datadog for Open Source Projects)
Developer servicesfree tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-02disagrees
Datadog (free)
Developer servicesSibling records disagree:
- identity_kind:
dev-services/datadogsays email, dev-services/datadog-open-source says institution - verdict:
dev-services/datadogsays qualifies-with-caveat, dev-services/datadog-open-source says fails-identity
- Free allowance
- Free tier after the 14-day trial: up to five Basic hosts with 1-day metric retention at no cost; LLM Observability separately has a free tier of up to 40K LLM spans per month with 15-day retention and no credit card
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- retention-clamped1-day metric retention
- Evidence
- documented10 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-01checked 2026-10-31 (live); stale on 2026-12-01
| Free tier | Free tier after the 14-day trial: up to five Basic hosts with 1-day metric retention at no cost; LLM Observability separately has a free tier of up to 40K LLM spans per month with 15-day retention and no credit card unit mixed; metered on object-count; The infrastructure allowance is counted in hosts, a unit the vocabulary lacks. Container monitoring is not available for Basic hosts. The trial lasts 14 days and monitors any number of servers. |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
Container monitoring is not available for Basic hosts. |
| Binding | retention-clamped Metrics older than one day are gone on the Free tier, so the five hosts give a live view and no history. |
| Identity | email The sign-up form marks Business Email, Full Name, Company and Password as required, with a data region that cannot be changed later; Phone is not starred among the required fields, so no phone is required; Google sign-up is offered; the form has no card field. Whether an address at a public mail domain passes as a business email is unverified. |
| Egress | not stated: the pricing page names no charge for reading data back on the Free tier |
| Per-object cap | unverified: the pricing, sign-up and API pages quoted name no payload limit |
| Retention | 1-day metric retention on the Free tier; 15-day retention for LLM spans on the LLM Observability free tier (1 days) |
| Interface | rest The Datadog API is an HTTP REST API authenticated with an API key in the DD-API-KEY header, and for some endpoints an application key in DD-APPLICATION-KEY |
| Tooling | the Datadog web app, the REST API and its official client libraries; host metrics come from the Datadog Agent and cloud integrations |
| Composes with | Host metrics for up to five machines with a one-day window: a live view of free VMs, not a history. |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | The open source programme recorded as compute/datadog is a different offer, decided on the project's team. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 10
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-31 | www.datadoghq.com/pricing/ | the Free tier gives up to five Basic hosts with 1-day metric retention at no cost |
| 2026-10-31 | www.datadoghq.com/pricing/ | an account moves to the Free tier when the trial ends without an upgrade |
| 2026-10-31 | www.datadoghq.com/pricing/ | LLM Observability has a free tier of 40K spans a month, 15-day retention, no credit card |
| 2026-10-31 | www.datadoghq.com/pricing/ | Basic hosts get no container monitoring |
| 2026-10-31 | app.datadoghq.com/signup | the trial lasts 14 days with any number of servers |
| 2026-10-31 | app.datadoghq.com/signup | the required sign-up fields are business email, full name, company and password, with no card field |
| 2026-10-31 | app.datadoghq.com/signup | the Phone field carries no required-field star |
| 2026-10-31 | app.datadoghq.com/signup | Google sign-up is offered |
| 2026-10-31 | docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/ | the API is HTTP REST |
| 2026-10-31 | docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/ | the API authenticates with an API key in the DD-API-KEY header |
Unknown values 1
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
Datadog (Compute)
Compute- Free allowance
- 'Use this form to apply for access to Datadog at no cost.
- Verdict
- fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institutionno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedthe project must be non-commercial under an approved open source licence, at least 1 year old, with at least 5 regular contributors and at least 2 maintainers working for different companies; applications are evaluated case by case
- Evidence
- documented18 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-01checked 2026-10-31 (live); stale on 2026-12-01
| Free tier | 'Use this form to apply for access to Datadog at no cost. We evaluate applications on a case by case basis.' The stated limits are qualitative: 'The number of hosts (or other types of compute units) and telemetry events may be limited.' unit none; metered on unstated; No amount is published: hosts and telemetry events may be limited, and applications are evaluated case by case. |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
The monitored infrastructure and applications must directly support the project, so instances of an open source project run for other uses are out of scope. |
| Binding | write-gated At least 5 regular contributors and at least 2 maintainers at different companies are required, so a project with one maintainer cannot apply. |
| Identity | institution The application form requires full name, email, project name, project website or repository, an open source licence and a description, with no card or phone field; eligibility rests on the project's team (its regular contributors and maintainers at different companies), which a single maintainer cannot meet. |
| Egress | not stated |
| Per-object cap | unverified: the programme page names no payload limit |
| Retention | unverified: the programme page names no retention period |
| Interface | rest The Datadog API is an HTTP REST API; its scope under the programme is not stated on the programme page |
| Tooling | the Datadog web app and the Datadog REST API |
| Composes with | For a project that meets the team conditions, Datadog at no cost for the infrastructure that runs the project; anyone else has the self-serve Free tier of up to five Basic hosts recorded as dev-services/datadog. |
| Reliability | unverified: the programme page names no enforcement past its host and telemetry limits |
| Notes | Kept apart from dev-services/datadog, which records the self-serve Free tier of up to five Basic hosts with 1-day metric retention: the open source programme is applied for and evaluated case by case, publishes no host or event figure, and is open only to a non-commercial project at least 1 year old with at least 5 regular contributors and maintainers at two or more companies, so the two are different offers. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 18
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | www.datadoghq.com/partner/open-source/ | quoted 'Projects need to be at least 1 year old and have at least 5 regular contributors (maintainers or not). At least 2 maintainers need to work for different companies', the non-commercial and approved-licence conditions, and that the number of hosts and telemetry events 'may be limited' |
| 2026-10-31 | www.datadoghq.com/partner/open-source/ | the page is an application for Datadog at no cost |
| 2026-10-31 | www.datadoghq.com/partner/open-source/ | the programme names hosts and telemetry events as limited and publishes no figure |
| 2026-10-31 | www.datadoghq.com/partner/open-source/ | the stated text is on the page as read |
| 2026-10-31 | www.datadoghq.com/partner/open-source/ | part of the text of Limits, above |
| 2026-10-31 | www.datadoghq.com/partner/open-source/ | the programme page names hosts and telemetry events as limited and no payload size |
| 2026-10-31 | www.datadoghq.com/partner/open-source/ | the programme page names hosts and telemetry events as limited and no retention period |
| 2026-10-31 | docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/ | the Datadog API is HTTP REST |
| 2026-10-31 | www.datadoghq.com/partner/open-source/ | projects need to be at least 1 year old with at least 5 regular contributors |
| 2026-10-31 | www.datadoghq.com/partner/open-source/ | at least 2 maintainers must work for different companies |
| 2026-10-31 | www.datadoghq.com/partner/open-source/ | the monitored infrastructure must directly support the project |
| 2026-10-31 | lp.datadoghq.com/index.php/form/getForm?munchkinId=875-UVY-6 | the application form requires an email address |
| 2026-10-31 | lp.datadoghq.com/index.php/form/getForm?munchkinId=875-UVY-6 | the application form requires an open source licence |
| 2026-10-31 | www.datadoghq.com/partner/open-source/ | the page says only that hosts and telemetry events may be limited |
| 2026-10-31 | www.datadoghq.com/pricing/ | the self-serve Free tier gives up to five Basic hosts with 1-day metric retention |
| 2026-10-31 | www.datadoghq.com/partner/open-source/ | the programme is an application evaluated case by case |
| 2026-10-31 | www.datadoghq.com/pricing/ | the self-serve Free tier gives up to five Basic hosts with 1-day metric retention at no cost |
| 2026-10-31 | www.datadoghq.com/partner/open-source/ | the programme page still offers Datadog at no cost on application |
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": "vendor-oss-credits","free_tier_kind": "recurring-credit","shape": null} |
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Unknown values 2
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
Datadog (Datadog for Open Source Projects)
Developer servicesSibling records disagree:
- identity_kind:
dev-services/datadogsays email, dev-services/datadog-open-source says institution - verdict:
dev-services/datadogsays qualifies-with-caveat, dev-services/datadog-open-source says fails-identity
- Free allowance
- Datadog at no cost for an open source project, applied for by form and evaluated case by case; the page publishes no amount, and the number of hosts (or other types of compute units) and telemetry events may be limited
- Verdict
- fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institutionno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedthe project must be non-commercial under an approved open source licence, at least 1 year old, with at least 5 regular contributors and at least 2 maintainers working for different companies; applications are evaluated case by case
- Evidence
- documented19 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-02checked 2026-11-01 (live); stale on 2026-12-02
| Free tier | Datadog at no cost for an open source project, applied for by form and evaluated case by case; the page publishes no amount, and the number of hosts (or other types of compute units) and telemetry events may be limited unit mixed; metered on unstated; The allowance is counted in hosts and telemetry events with no figure published; the vocabulary has no hosts unit, so the unit is mixed. The monitored infrastructure and applications must directly support the project. One recipient project reports using logs, metrics, APM and traces under the programme. |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
The monitored infrastructure and applications must directly support the project, so instances of an open source project run for other uses are out of scope. Recipients are asked to let the community know how they use Datadog. |
| Binding | write-gated At least 5 regular contributors and at least 2 maintainers at different companies are required, so a project with one maintainer cannot apply. |
| Identity | institution The application form requires full name, email, project name, project website or repository, an open source licence and a description, with no card or phone field; eligibility rests on the project's team (at least 5 regular contributors and at least 2 maintainers who work for different companies), which a single maintainer cannot meet. |
| Egress | not stated: the programme page names no charge for reading data back |
| Per-object cap | unverified: the programme page names no payload limit |
| Retention | unverified: the programme page names no retention period |
| Interface | rest The Datadog API is an HTTP REST API; the programme page does not state whether the programme account includes API access |
| Tooling | the Datadog web app and the Datadog REST API |
| Composes with | For a project that meets the team conditions, Datadog at no cost for the infrastructure that runs the project; anyone else has the self-serve Free tier recorded as dev-services/datadog. |
| Reliability | recipients date from 2016 (the Apache Software Foundation, one of the first) and 2017 (the Python Software Foundation); the programme page names no enforcement past its host and telemetry limits |
| Notes | The same offer is also recorded as compute/datadog. The self-serve Free tier is a different offer, recorded as dev-services/datadog: the open source programme is applied for and evaluated case by case, and is open only to a project with regular contributors and maintainers at two or more companies. |
| Evidence note | documented The conditions, the application form and the limits wording are documented on the programme page; which products an accepted account includes is reported by one recipient project, and the host and event limits set for an accepted project are unverified: behind an application. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 19
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-01 | www.datadoghq.com/partner/open-source/ | the programme is an application for Datadog at no cost, evaluated case by case |
| 2026-11-01 | www.datadoghq.com/partner/open-source/ | the programme names hosts and telemetry events as limited and publishes no figure |
| 2026-11-01 | www.datadoghq.com/partner/open-source/ | projects should be non-commercial and under an approved open source licence |
| 2026-11-01 | www.datadoghq.com/partner/open-source/ | projects need to be at least 1 year old with at least 5 regular contributors |
| 2026-11-01 | www.datadoghq.com/partner/open-source/ | at least 2 maintainers must work for different companies |
| 2026-11-01 | www.datadoghq.com/partner/open-source/ | part of the text of Limits, above |
| 2026-11-01 | www.datadoghq.com/partner/open-source/ | part of the text of Limits, above |
| 2026-11-01 | lp.datadoghq.com/index.php/form/getForm?munchkinId=875-UVY-6 | the application form requires a full name |
| 2026-11-01 | lp.datadoghq.com/index.php/form/getForm?munchkinId=875-UVY-6 | the application form requires an email address |
| 2026-11-01 | lp.datadoghq.com/index.php/form/getForm?munchkinId=875-UVY-6 | the application form requires a project name |
| 2026-11-01 | lp.datadoghq.com/index.php/form/getForm?munchkinId=875-UVY-6 | the application form requires a project website or repository |
| 2026-11-01 | lp.datadoghq.com/index.php/form/getForm?munchkinId=875-UVY-6 | the application form requires an open source licence |
| 2026-11-01 | lp.datadoghq.com/index.php/form/getForm?munchkinId=875-UVY-6 | the application form requires a project description |
| 2026-11-01 | opensource.datadoghq.com/projects/oss-program/ | Datadog's open source hub says it offers free Datadog accounts to open source projects |
| 2026-11-01 | opensource.datadoghq.com/projects/oss-program/ | the Apache Software Foundation was one of the first recipients, in 2016 |
| 2026-11-01 | opensource.datadoghq.com/projects/oss-program/ | the Python Software Foundation has used Datadog since 2017 |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/ | the Datadog API is HTTP REST |
| 2026-11-01 | www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/05/30/datadog-oss-program/ | a recipient project reports using log analytics, metrics and APM data in Datadog dashboards (third-party report) |
| 2026-11-01 | www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/05/30/datadog-oss-program/ | a recipient project reports capturing traces in Datadog (third-party report) |
Unknown values 1
- egress metered: egress metering was not published