Datadog Inc (DDOG - Full Stock Analysis): Every dog has it's day
DDOG at a glance
DDOG is a cloud monitoring service provider founded in 2010 in New York City. They offer a platform that integrates with numerous cloud service providers such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud (source) to provide easy-to-use monitoring metrics and dashboards. The platform is able to perform a variety of functions including (source):
Integrations: with numerous pre-built integration patterns, DDOG aggregates metrics throughout IT systems in order to present a true view of a company’s IT health.
Application Performance Monitoring: DDOG is able to monitor specific applications to determine their health and performance in real-time.
Logs: as enabled by integrations, DDOG aggregates log data from all applications attached to its service and generates insightful metrics from the data to surface issues and opportunities for IT.
Real User Monitoring: DDOG monitors real user experience with AI-powered testing and detects any discrepancies within that experience for immediate fix.
Security: DDOG delivers real-time threat detection and continuous auditing across the cloud environment to ensure a secure system.
Alerts: DDOG has a full suite of alerts so that any issues it detects will go through the proper channels to be quickly resolved.
DDOG provides some other auxiliary services as well, but these six make up its core offering. They make revenue by offering their platform as a subscription service.