Log Management
Datadog
What the price is per
| Plan | Unit | Audience | Seats | Limits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flex Storage | million events stored | unknown | no minimum stated | retention: 1 to 15 months |
| Ingest | GB | unknown | no minimum stated | out-of-the-box parsing: 200+ log sources; user accounts: unlimited |
| Flex Logs Starter | million events stored | unknown | no minimum stated | retention options: 3, 6, 12 or 15 months; bundled starter compute: log volumes below 2B events per month (10B total stored) |
| Standard Indexing | million log events | unknown | no minimum stated | retention options: 3, 7, 15 or 30 days |
| Flex Compute | instance-hour | unknown | no minimum stated | none captured |
The unit is what one increment of the price buys, as the vendor words it: a user, a host, an endpoint, a thousand credits. Where a vendor's page does not say, the cell says so rather than guessing.
Sources
- Datadog: Pricing Vendor page. Captured 16 Sep 2026, Logs section: Ingest, Standard Indexing, Flex Storage, Flex Compute, Flex Logs Starter and Log Forwarding cards. sha256:c1a71e38b397312392f8cc6bb0b841c3025640b6364899952c381ac96c875ac5
- Datadog: Master Subscription Agreement Published agreement. Captured 16 Sep 2026, Fees clause, "Fees must be paid in U.S. dollars". sha256:6673b3698a7cd922b3773e3841ff5b9afa0fad8fe96a69570762cd30b9776d26