Overview
Datadog is a major cloud monitoring and observability vendor. AI-era observability startups such as groundcover explicitly position against Datadog’s sampling/volume-pricing model.
Recent Developments
- 2026-07-29: groundcover Series C messaging frames replacement of Datadog/legacy observability for full-fidelity BYOC telemetry (2026-07-30-groundcover-series-c-ctech)