Datadog is an observability platform, reviewed for telemetry data, monitoring, sharing, tracking, retention, and organization controls.
60
Mixed
60
Mixed
Datadog combines broad tracking with unusually strong privacy controls.
Datadog gives users more direct privacy control than its other categories, especially around data export and clear admin controls.
Datadog is weakest on ads and tracking because cookie-based tracking remains part of the product or marketing site, ad personalization or marketing measurement still shows up, and behavioral signals can still travel through analytics or partner tools.
60
Mixed
The reviewed policy does not provide a simple no-AI-training promise for all telemetry and event data.
Datadog uses collected information to improve existing products and create new ones.
Datadog publishes privacy-policy coverage for monitoring services and account data.
65
Mixed
45
Weak
70
Mixed
75
Good
Legal Privacy Policy
Open: datadoghq.com1. AI Use
The reviewed policy does not provide a simple no-AI-training promise for all telemetry and event data.
2. Datadog Uses
Datadog uses collected information to improve existing products and create new ones.
3. Datadog Publishes
Datadog publishes privacy-policy coverage for monitoring services and account data.
4. Controls
Admins can control what telemetry is ingested in the first place through instrumentation and scrubbing choices.
5. Controls
Datadog supports access and configuration controls that can narrow which users see collected telemetry.
Founded
Unknown
Founder
Unknown
Parent Company
Datadog
Lifecycle
Active
Category
Developer Platforms & Infra
CEO
Unknown
Security Team
In house
Date Added
05-18-2026
Once you delete a chat, you cannot recover it. Deleting a chat removes it both from your visible chat history and the system after the retention window.
Admins can control what telemetry is ingested in the first place through instrumentation and scrubbing choices.
Datadog supports access and configuration controls that can narrow which users see collected telemetry.
65
Mixed
Telemetry can still flow through integrations, cloud providers, subprocessors, organization users, and legal disclosures.
Marketing, analytics, and social-sharing features widen the sharing surface beyond core monitoring.
Datadog documents privacy rights and service-provider handling.
Admins can govern access, archives, and integrations for observability data.
Datadog documents account-management and rights-request paths for personal information.
Security-focused processing is clearly called out instead of being hidden in vague operational language.
45
Weak
Datadog still uses cookies, pixels, usage tracking, and may collect mouse movements and detailed website interaction data.
Advertising, marketing analytics, and campaign measurement still create a real tracking surface outside core monitoring use.
Admins can configure ingestion, access, and some retention settings for collected product telemetry.
Datadog provides marketing opt-outs for promotional emails.
Datadog is not a public consumer ad platform, which slightly narrows the baseline tracking model.
70
Mixed
Retention still depends on product, plan, archive settings, backups, and legal needs.
Observability exports and integrations can preserve copies of telemetry outside the main workspace lifecycle.
Retention can be configured by product and plan for many telemetry types.
Admins can manage archives and access in ways that affect how long sensitive telemetry remains easily available.
Datadog says it keeps personal information only as long as necessary, then deletes or archives it unless there is a lawful reason to retain it.
Rights-request and access paths are documented.
75
Good
Admins can manage data scrubbing, access, retention, archives, and integrations.
Customers can update account information, access rights, and portability requests.
Instrumentation hygiene lets teams decide what sensitive data never enters Datadog.
Security contact and abuse-report paths are clearly documented.
Privacy still depends on whether teams scrub sensitive data before sending it.
End-user visibility into collected telemetry is much weaker than administrator control.
80
Good
