Network / NMS
Datadog Network Monitoring
Datadog
Network monitoring as one module inside the full Datadog platform — best when you already live in Datadog and want flow + SNMP correlated with APM/logs/k8s.
- Category
- Network / NMS
- License
- Proprietary
- Deployment
- SaaS
- Cost
- High
- Free tier
- Yes
- Self-host effort
- —
- Maturity
- Incumbent
- Popularity
- Module of the dominant observability platform
The catch
Notorious bill surprises — high-water-mark, multi-SKU billing balloons unpredictably, and as a pure NMS it's weaker on topology/config than a dedicated tool.
Monitors
NetworkServersMetricsLogsTracesSyntheticsCloudK8s
Protocols
SNMPNetFlow / sFlow / IPFIXOTLP
Capabilities
AlertingDashboardsAutodiscoveryAnomaly detectionAPIOn-callAI assistant
Built for
Mid-marketEnterpriseSRE / DevOps
The honest take
Great if Datadog is already your everything and you want network signals in the same pane. Standalone, it’s an expensive way to do SNMP — and the bill is the recurring horror story across the whole platform.