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Datadog, Inc. — Call Transcript 2026
Jun 3, 2026
All right, everybody, let's get this started. My name is Koji Ikeda. I'm one of the software analysts here at Bank of America. Absolutely thrilled. Thank you for joining us for the day two keynote, lunchtime keynote. To have Datadog CFO David Obstler with us, thank you so much for doing this. Appreciate it. Thanks for having us. We appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. We have a lot of people in this room. Thanks again for joining us. some people that know Datadog very, very well. There's also many in this room that might not. Let's start very high level. What is Datadog? What is the core problem Datadog is trying to solve today? Yeah. Datadog has an observability and security platform that allows the deployment of modern software applications, mainly in cloud environments, in a safe and effective way. Most of our customers are those that have mission-critical software that's customer facing. Think about video or credit card companies or banks or airlines or hotels. All of them have digital applications that interact with their customer. The Datadog platform is used to monitor and secure the effectiveness and operations of those platforms. Most of this is in real time. Datadog, over the years, has had an expanding platform to cover more of the surface area in examining what's happening in those applications and allowing them to operate in a good way for the customers. Your results and fundamentals are accelerating. Clearly, good things are happening. Why is observability and security becoming more mission critical as software complexity and AI adoption accelerates? Yeah. Yeah, definitely. AI adoption is a part of it, but essentially, we are observing the development and the production of modern applications, mainly in the cloud. As they get more and more complex, and as more and more of those applications are moving from legacy technologies to the cloud and being modernized, that is what Datadog does. What is the effect of AI? One of the things is any time there's been new technologies, of which certainly large language models are one, there has been more of an impetus to modernize the tech stack, and therefore, create more applications that are in the cloud. That creates business drivers and has historically created business drivers that have enhanced the Datadog business. This applies both to non-AI native companies who are modernizing their tech stack in order to have large language models in their applications, as well as a set of infrastructure companies who we call AI natives, who are experiencing a demand cycle and have rapid product releases. They're cloud native. Their whole stack is modernized, and they're using, in a very significant way, Datadog products to help observe the delivery of those products to their customers. 1Q results. Little while ago, but still. Yeah. Yeah. It's been a couple weeks. Fun memories. Fun memories. Yeah. It's been a couple weeks. I think our started with wow, right? Fantastic results all around. Accelerating growth. Winning new customers you never thought you would have before. Let's tackle the first part about just accelerating growth. Looking over the past six months, what sort of inflections were you seeing from core observability teams out there? Yeah. This has been going on for, I think we've been accelerating for three or four quarters. We've been communicating this message that we have seen a good buying environment, that the investments we've made in our platform, we can talk about the number of different products, were resonating, so we're getting more platform growth. We also are having a significant demand cycle in AI native companies. This has been building on itself. We've also been investing substantially in our go-to market over the last year in order to deliver this to our customers. This has been building on itself, and essentially in the first quarter, it continued that trend of acceleration in many areas. The non-AI natives, the AI natives, different geographies, enterprise down to SMB. Those were all contributing factors in producing the first quarter. The seeds of that started three to four quarters ago and have been building on itself. Let's talk a little bit about the multi-products. You guys give a lot of metrics. Two plus products, I think four, six, eight, 10? I think I got that right? 10, yes. What are the products that are driving the most multi-product usage? Out of those metrics, the two, four, six, eight, 10, which is the one we should be focusing on? Essentially, the benefit of Datadog is that you can do all of your observation actions in a single platform. In some ways, it's a single product, the platform. At the epicenter, and this has been going on for some time, you have the, what we used to call the three pillars, which are Infrastructure or metrics, Application Monitoring or traces, and then logs. We've had a very substantial demand cycle from what we call Digital Experience. This is taking how an application interacts with customers from the back end all the way out to the mobile device, et cetera. That's called, that's RUM, and that's Synthetics, et cetera. Those are bigger products for us. Those have been growing very rapidly, and there has been a consolidation away from both point solutions and do it yourself towards our platform. That has been enhanced by some other products that we've put on our platform, including our Cloud Security products, our Service Management, which is basically interacting with the users to be able to manage cases, et cetera. What we call the products that allow you to A/B test on different applications and determine what's most effective. We've been adding on additional products on top of that, and then we started to add on what we call AI for Datadog and Datadog for AI. Datadog for AI is most of our business is created because there are many things that impact an application. What I just mentioned, plus databases, plus network, and now you have LLMs and other things. We've been working to monitor those, and they are being adopted as well as AI for Datadog, which is how can the platform get smarter and service the customers, and these are things like our Bits SRE. All of those have been developed and are starting to get traction, which is enhancing what had happened over the last three or four years in the core pillars. Infrastructure Monitoring, APM logs are all big ARR businesses. They're all over $1 billion, sure. Remind me, out of the other products. What sort of metrics you gave on scale? I think there's a bunch that are $10+ million. Is there the potential for some of those to reach $100 million, $200 million, $500 million? We've been doing this. We've been giving a lot of metrics. Our RUM and Synthetics have passed through that, we gave metrics on that. We gave metrics, I think, that Security passed $100 million. We've been doing is over time, as we reach these metrics, generally around 50 and 100, we have been giving those metrics. We had the passing of 100, which was the ones I mentioned, Security. We had a number of other products that were reaching the 50, which were things like database and network. I'm not sure I have all of this exactly right. We gave metrics, we have a lot of other products that are passing through 10 in multiples. Yes, we have a lot of products that have been scaling this, and what we said was there's lots of opportunities, and what we're going to do is we're going to give, as we reach these milestones, we're going to give those metrics so that everyone can follow along. Things that show a lot of promise are like Bits AI SRE. These things like the Product Analytics we talked about, which is really about how an application is constructed and interacts with clients. These are all smaller products, but the TAM there and other point solutions are much larger than we're at today, and so we're optimistic we can scale those different milestones as well. Yep. In the oneQ results, you guys won a lot of, I mean, you guys have been winning big deals for a while now. What's going on there with the big enterprises? Is it the go-to-market motion getting better in the enterprise need something more like Datadog? Maybe it's a confluence of both. Help me understand the big deal activity. Yeah, it's definitely a confluence of both. You have in a customer base that has been around for a long time, therefore, they're not cloud natives, they didn't just get birthed. They have legacy technologies. They have a long way to go. There's somewhat 25%-30% of workloads in the cloud right now and modernized. They are continuing to find use cases and modernizing. Datadog's platform is getting bigger and better, we're consolidating market share onto our platform, we're getting better about delivering the enterprise service model, whether that be channel partners, customer service, technical help, the whole ecosystem to be able to deliver. All of that has been what we've been investing behind for some time that is bearing fruits. That's resulted in some large lands. We still are largely a land and expand, some very substantial expansions. When we've given our customer examples, if anybody is curious to go back and look at the scripts, what you'll see is a great combination of what the economy is. You'll see insurance companies, financial service companies, tractor companies, all sorts of different car companies, airlines. You'll see how this is evolving in the spread of the business towards cloud natives and certainly AI natives, which we'll talk about, but also the cloud nativity within very large traditional enterprises. Is there any limitation to the type of company or size of company that might not look at Datadog anymore, or is Datadog available to all types of companies? Well, there are some companies that have in their past want to do this themselves. They're very few. I mean, maybe I think Google's a good example of trying to do things themselves. That's not really core to our business, although, and we'll talk about it, there's examples where we've gotten those types of businesses, and we'll talk about that. I think the other thing is, if we generally are delivering our product through the cloud, so if you require an on-premise solution for regulatory or other reasons, that has by choice not been where we've concentrated our R&D. We are developing more of those products, so you can see companies which, because of either their practices or their regulation, cannot have data leave their premise. That would be a company that is not core to Datadog's end market. Yep. Yep. Last quarter, you guys talked about winning some AI labs within some large tech companies. Let's talk about that. What happened there? Why did they come to you? What were they looking for how are you guys helping solve that problem? Yeah. As background, I think there's a lot of information we've given, a lot of information about how pervasive the AI business has been, this includes some of the foundation model companies in database, companies that are vertical. Already Datadog has been used pretty pervasively in the monitoring side. Production work environments, inference production, I think we said over 650, we gave a lot of statistics on spending over $10 million and 10+ products. What we added to that is that two larger companies, a hyperscaler and another very large tech company that have model creation within their businesses, foundational models, had used Datadog for training as well. Most of the time, our end market has been for production workloads. As a couple things have happened, as there is a boundary between training research or training and when it has to go into production, that we've now been able to have some customers buy from us. In this case, they were some large customers, a hyperscaler, who traditionally does more things on their own but use Datadog. What we found is this is an example of the fact that they may not be using Datadog pervasively, but there are use cases where they're going to be using Datadog, and that's a great voice of confidence that these companies whose whole business is this are using Datadog. It's sort of like a seal of approval. You mentioned earlier in our conversation that Datadog does well with inference. Now you're saying training too. We're saying it maybe. Maybe we're saying we have, but we haven't said. We generally don't overpromise. When we have a certain amount of training that is spread out, we'll tell you. Right now, it's more of a sort of centralized. Yeah. It's good, but we have said most of our revenues we expect to be from production and inference. We'll see what happens. We'll bring everyone along. But does it, as we think about AI in the future and more enterprises, organizations building their own things, large small language models, for all. How does Datadog think about that opportunity and maybe even going after it a little bit? We'll prepare ourselves for that opportunity. I think that for the most part, when you think about production, so I think we're always, even if we're in training, we'll always be somewhat proximate to production. There could be market extensions, but essentially you use Datadog when it can't go down. If you're training, yeah, if you're training, and by definition the sandbox you're not putting into production. You have different impetus. Maybe that'll happen, and we certainly are preparing our products. They're the same products. We certainly will have the products, and we certainly are in touch with customers, and we certainly will push that if it makes sense for customers. We just don't know the answer whether that's going to be a core market or a specialist market for us. When I think about observability in the most simplistic way. It's data ingestion and analysis. I know it's much more complicated than that, and the architecture is very important in the way to address that. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Maybe help explain to those in the room, again, less familiar with Datadog. What is it specifically about the technology architecture that takes this what could be a simple concept into a very complicated something that you have to invest in and difficult to replicate? Yeah. Before we get to the architecture, one of the things is data. Datadog. Okay. It isn't true. There's not one data. We have 1,000+ integrations. When you think about the operation of a cloud application in real time, CPUs, GPUs, databases, lines of code, network, all sorts of things. One of the things that, and this gets to the architecture, that Datadog did very early is they developed a common architecture to take all that data from all the different parts that could affect and organize it and put it in one place and make it transparent so you can see. That is very hard to do, and that's the reason why point solutions don't really make sense because none of the customers are saying, "I want to see what happened to that line of code." They say, "I want to see what happened to the functioning of the application." So you have to see all of it. That's one thing. The architecture is that Datadog organized that data, knitted it together, provided user interfaces and other ways to see it in real time, correlated. This is being enhanced by AI now, which is using large language models to do diagnosis and maybe even one day self-remediate, and produce it all knitted together. That's hard to do because there are a lot of factors. Many other companies have tried to do this piecemeal, and it's all gone back to that integrated data model, putting the analytics on top of it, having a simple but not simplistic, meaning everybody can use it. We don't charge by seat. We benefit when everybody goes into this utility and uses it, and that helps us. All of that architecture has been an architecture which provides the most value to our customer base in analyzing. It all has to be real time because this isn't like, okay, I produced some marketing collateral. There's an error in it. I can fix it. This is your whole business on the front end. That's what's created it. Then all the different pieces, adding on all these different pieces and knitting together, have been complex. Right now we have a competitive advantage in that we have a very large platform. Its scale can handle anybody's scale. It basically organizes all this for everybody, and it allows you to have a significant platform investment to amortize application investment on top of it, which is a big competitive advantage. I wanted to dig in on the Datadog AI strategy also the data for your AI strategy. Let's hit the data first. What is so special about the data that Datadog has? How long do you think it would be, even if it's feasible for a competitor to amass that type of data to be competitive? Yeah, it wouldn't be feasible at a price point that would be competitive. In other words, large language models are by definition large. What they're doing is they're looking at lots of data. Our strategy in the model side is to offer that, but also then have a set of models that are very specific to observability and security use cases. Then to make them because of all the data we have, and then both have a higher functioning model and a cheaper model. If it's not a generalist model, you don't have to pay the cost of all that stuff that doesn't apply to your use case. That's what we're doing in the model side. There's a whole bunch of different things. I'm speaking now about AI for Datadog. We'll get to Datadog for AI, which is all the DNA that goes in. There's also the ability to connect to all the software creation on the agent side, whether it be an agent or machine or person, we don't care. Whatever's creating and getting towards an application to see what's going on there and then correlate that with everything else that's affecting the application. All of those are things that we're putting in our platform. We're having our user conference in, is it a week? Next week. There'll be a lot of product releases. Our investor day also had a very strong articulation of this. What that will enable us to do is, and is already, is basically making the platform smarter, being able to diagnose very quickly what's going on, being able to make recommendations on what to do about it, and in some cases to actually implement those recommendations. That's the vision. That's what the whole Service Management vision is in the model. That's like the investment in AI for Datadog to make the platform enabled to see all those things and use large language models, whether they be the third party or our own to be smart. Let's talk about your AI products. The Bits AI products. Actually I don't even know how many you have. What do you have and how should we think about the AI products? Heading first into monitoring data flows. We have LLM Observability. That is the functioning of an LLM model. Think of it as you have databases, you have lines of code. That is where you have LLMs in a production model application. You're using signals to understand is that affecting the performance of the application. I think we've said that that is germane to having LLMs in production. We've had significant growth there, still early days. We're getting revenues from that. We have GPU, which is essentially like an infrastructure product, but instead of CPU, GPU, where you're seeing how the application might or the model might interact with GPUs in delivering. That's similar to our other products where you have to see how the servers or the GPUs are doing. That is sort of examples of Datadog Monitoring things that affect, so that's Datadog for AI. You have AI for Datadog, and those products are the Bits products. Bits is sort of a general name. Bits is our mascot, our dog, that's why we are using Bits. It's very cute. For different end markets, SRE would be the systems reliability engineers, et cetera. That product is out there. There are 2,000 customers using that. I think we have 100,000 or more investigations. We also have products in for development and for security that we're rolling out in the Bits suite. We also have, as I mentioned, the ability to connect to the code generation through our MCP Server, when that will enable that information to get into Datadog and monitor that. We also have a bunch of other products, Cloud Cost Management, et cetera, that is being able to monitor on sort of the cost and management side, how much you're spending on tokens, who's using it. We have Cloud Cost Management, and now we're extending that into agentic monitoring. That was a long talk. Apologize for that. There's a lot of names, but those are some of the product lines that are being put out to market in those areas. Yeah. I want to talk about platform consolidation. Good driver of growth for you guys. What is driving platform consolidation today with the large enterprises? Does that theme of what they're doing today for consolidation just continue into the future? Does consolidation maybe change? Yeah. You might wonder why didn't all this happen already? Why didn't everyone just buy everything in Datadog to begin with, and it's already pre-consolidated? The reason is, one, Datadog didn't have these products 10 years ago. There are other products out there, and there are contracts that customers have with those products. We're in an environment that it's happening over time. Why is it happening at all? It has to do with that if you are a practitioner and you need to operate in real time, you do not want to be context shifting. You don't want to be going into a lot of different data sources. It's slower. It's actually more costly. As we've developed these products and clients have looked at the utility and they've gotten off of contracts, this has been going on for some time. I think as the product suite has been getting better and better and better, the components all getting to product parity and beyond, it's been accelerating. Yeah, I think we're very early on in this. There's proliferation. There's a lot of observability point solutions out there. Like I said, all of the decision making is leading towards consolidation in the single platform. We think we're pretty early on in that trend. Do your buyers still think about, and we'll talk about in the three core applications. Infra, APM, log analytics. Do they still think about that as three separate products, or are customers beginning to come to you and saying, "Please solve this"? No. For a long time, we've been selling as credit. You buy $2 billion of Datadog, you go in and you use all this. No, they've never thought of it as different products. We're doing that in order to provide transparency to you all. It's one product. They don't care what they're called. They only care about doing their job, site reliability engineering. This happened a long time ago. That's what made Datadog, and they think of it as the platform. I want to touch a little bit about security. $100+ million business. It's been out there for two plus, three, four years? Three, four, couple years now. Maybe for those that are a little bit unfamiliar with security, tell us about your security journey, what you're doing on the product side. Maybe more importantly, what are you doing on the go-to-market side with security? That's a very good thing. First of all, you have to say what security. Okay, these are the things we're not in. Endpoint security, there's some really good companies. We're not in network security. We're not in email security. What we're in is Cloud Security. Cloud Security has three components. It has how the cloud's working, it's called Posture Management, and set up to secure digital applications. Two is Cloud SIEM. How are you using logs and other information to investigate what's happening? Three is Code Security. How are you engineering security into the code? Not on premise, not legacy, but for cloud applications, we've built this suite of the three products. I would say the one that we probably made the most progress on is Cloud SIEM. Some of the reasons are it's off of our logs business, and we have an over $1 billion log business. We have a great largest observability logs, and the end market has dynamics where we've been an innovator in it. We've had two major strategies. One is attach the whole suite to cloud-native emerging companies, and two is attach Cloud SIEM to more traditional companies where we have a strong observability logs. That's been the strategy, and it's working. That's the product strategy. In terms of go to market, particularly for enterprises, it's a different go to market in that, one, you have the influence of a buyer that is not a traditional buyer, the CISO. And even though they're getting closer together, that is a different buyer than DevOps. For some reason, I don't know, I'm too young, but for some reason, there was a bottoms-up distribution that facilitated direct in DevOps. Security has been highly centralized, and the CISO has the grip on it. It's a different buyer who buys through channels. What we've been doing is we've been working on selling our direct to our champions, but also investing in product experts or specialty salespeople who are going to try to penetrate CISOs and others and channels, where we have a channel program like the other security companies. It's still early. It wasn't our DNA, but we're investing behind it as part of the overall security investment. One thing that we've heard over and over from customers and partners is. I'm the observability buyer. That guy's the security buyer. Is that how it's always going to be in your view, or do you think one day that might converge? We think the whole strategy is that it makes no sense. There's certainly territorialism. Essentially, if I were up here, you would say it's idiotic not to design security into applications and to have all this come through. DevSecOps, we have seen signs, and we believe it will come closer and closer together. A thing that we think will accelerate that is agentic coding because that's going to speed up everything, and it's going to require everyone to work together. Even though you're right, there are these separate buying groups. We're seeing signs of them coming together, and we believe in the future, since we believe that businesses are in the end logical, that they will come together. If we can use the gains in technology from agentic content of detection of penetration remediation, that will most likely help us in our attempt to scale security. In that vein, when you say agentic coding, it's getting pushed out. It's getting pressed, yeah. From the software development side, and security has to deal with it. Does that feel like you're beginning to pull in some of the security budget because of where that velocity of coding is coming? In cloud-progressive companies, we have been for some time, meaning we have clients where it's like I said, it's all knitted together. You have a whole big world out there, it's a process. I don't know if I can say that in the last six months, we would see a sea change. We think it's an evolution, and we believe it's going to happen. It's going to happen over time. Yeah. You guys are highly successful with cloud-native companies and cloud-native strategies. At your investor day, you talked about Cloud Prem, a product that you have. Can you tell us a little bit about Cloud Prem? What's the strategy there, and how are you leaning into go to market with that product? Essentially, we're leaning into it and go to market in the same way, meaning that if a client would find utility or a cost benefit from having data kept in there on their own servers, we want to have a product. So far it's been that we have the analytics, or we have the log, and you keep the data. We also have products that allow the data to get in in an efficient way, Observability Pipelines. That's what we're doing. Now, we're investing behind it. We have customers that want it, and we've been successful. It still hasn't been the vast majority of the way our customers want to buy. What we're working towards is indifference, meaning that if you want to keep the data, great. If you want to give us the data, great. If you want to have all the functionality go over to your side. That's taking time to get complete product parity where we have exact functionality. That's taking time, and that's what Cloud Prem means. We're working on that. That's mainly for the first use case logs. I got you. Wanted to ask you a question on durability of growth. You guys have great growth trends, and so how do we think about the drivers of the durability of growth, whether that's cloud migration, platform consolidation, and AI? What signals are you guys seeing that's giving you the confidence that growth continues in the fashion it has? Well, the durability depends on what your timeframe is, okay? We always have believed, and we're seeing that this is a very long-time investment cycle because such a high percentage of applications and infrastructure are still in legacy technologies. We've always said that if you want to look at this is a secular trend, and it can be cyclical, but it's also secular, and it's got a lot. You have 70%+ of workloads that aren't in the cloud. We believe this has very long legs. In terms of, is it going to be a straight line, meaning on every month, is it going to have the exact same thing? We don't know. It's likely, if proven, you're going to have periods of investment. You may have periods of optimization. It's cloud software. It's consumption cloud software. We can't predict exactly what the line's going to be in every moment, but we have confidence that it's very durable, and it's very long because we're attached to huge market drivers. We also, if history repeats itself, we found that new technologies, of which AI is happening, is a huge accelerant of this conversion. Again, it's still too early, but if history repeats itself, that is likely to inflect the line upward faster to get to the same place 25, 50 years out. Yep. That makes sense. I wanted to ask you a question on how Datadog thinks about product velocity and R&D investment. Frankly, your guys' own use of. AI within the organization. You mentioned, I think we talked about it yesterday, you got about 4,000 developers within the organization. How do you think about leveraging AI and investment? Yeah. To step back, we've always been a product-led company. We've been out investing. We've been spending over $1 billion in R&D. That's had tremendous benefit, meaning it's allowed us to invest in the platform and scale and the functionality. We also have our company that has no shortage of things, of functionality that we want to roll out. That's been epicenter to Datadog. Out-invest everyone in R&D, look at the pipeline of what we want to put in the market, at a profitable price, and creating value for clients, and just look at your R&D resources against that. That's been what Datadog has done. What about coding agents and agentic coding? That is essentially another piece of raw material that we are using to try to accelerate the launch of features, where we're not, what do you call it? Token maxing, what's it called? Agent maxing, what's the token maxing? Token maxing. We're not token maxers. We've never paid anybody, rewarded anybody on the number of lines. We basically think about products, so it's all product. All those software developers we call product people. Essentially to the extent we can become more efficient in speeding up feature release, it's good for us. We're finding that. We're basically experimenting around the interplay within that envelope on R&D between tokens and people. We have a lot of experiments. We have places where we have, keep the people, let's see how fast you are with less tokens. No. Constrain the people, let's see how fast you get. We're pretty nerdy engineering wonky, so we have all this stuff going on, and we're trying to see what's going to happen. We believe that the componentry of R&D will shift somewhat. We don't know exactly, to tokens from people, but we don't know the exact amount. Have you been able to use AI internally, with all that development that you have to help out with your own homegrown solutions in sales and marketing and G&A at all? AI, there's three or four major use cases. One, in the product itself. We talked about the models in the product. Those would be components of the product. Two is accelerate product release through software coding tools. Three would be use AI for productivity of the employees. Four would be what you're talking about. Are we able to use large language models or AI to improve the productivity and the effectiveness of the different functions? Yes, there's many, many examples. We're using AI to automate the creation of deals and the processing of deals, to enable our salespeople and our market people to understand propensity to buy and direct our salespeople in places that have a higher chance of success. We have all of those. I'm not going to list all the names, but there's lots of them like that. How do we enable salespeople in product training and things like that? How do we speed up all of the back office functions, whether it be legal, accounting, cash cycle, marketing collateral, all of that. Yes, we have experiments or projects going on in many areas to try to do that. What we're really thinking about mainly is how can we convert repetitive administrative tasks towards more insights so that we can act faster and inflect the business. We have all that going on, too. Wow. Yeah. Again, it's not token. Basically, you've got to produce something from this. We have a lot of opportunity. Remind us, what is the investment strategy in sales and marketing for you? How do we think about that? Yeah. The investment strategy in sales and marketing is bottoms up to be able to cover the high potential customers around the world. It has to do with investment in enterprise all the way up, government and enterprise, the biggest entities all the way down to startups to be able to cover them comprehensively and to be able to get lead gens from them, et cetera. It has to do with geographic expansion. Like many U.S. companies, we were most developed and followed where the investment in cloud software was most intense was the U.S. We're finding many areas with great payback, Brazil, Korea, India, et cetera, where we did not have on the ground presence. We're developing packages of salespeople, sales engineers, marketing dollars, maybe even data centers to be able to do that. That's sort of where it is. The ways you reach customers direct and then also channel, we're expanding. It's a bottoms-up business plan aimed at that micro level and how we can reach the broadest swath of customers around the world. I got you. Yeah. I know we're running up on time here. M&A strategy. Uh-huh. Yeah. You guys are not afraid to go out there and acquire things. How are you thinking about your M&A strategy? Any changes in what you've done in the past, and how do we think about that going forward? Yeah. Think we've basically, to date, not acquired streams of revenue, but acquiring product capabilities and the people, and we continue to do that. When you think about building product, we often build product, and then we can enhance that through acquiring a product capability. That's the epicenter of what we do, and if there's opportunities, we'll continue to do that. In addition, I think we're open to something that's bigger, where we do acquire some customers as well, but that'll really be dependent on can we integrate it in and can we accelerate? Does that help us? We're pretty principled on that. One of the things we really insist on is that the R&D teams and the product teams stay at Datadog. That means for certain companies, sell, move. We don't want that. We make it in the incentive structure, so we only acquire companies where they want to stay. That's sort of what we've been doing. It's been very successful. We've created some very big businesses through that with not that big acquisitions, and I think that's the core, with the reservation that we could look bigger to the extent it fits in in our disciplined way. I gotcha. Yeah. Last question for you, David. Thanks so much for doing this. Thank you. Yeah. You got DASH next week. We got DASH next week. We'll try and get a little bit out of you of what, as investors in the room and myself, as I look at the schedule, is there anything I should be focusing on just to make sure I don't miss anything big coming out next week? Well, as background, DASH is a place where we make a lot of product releases. We do product strategy. It's for users. I think you're going to get a pretty good roadmap. If you look at who's speaking and everything, I think you'll see it's going to have, no surprise, a lot of AI content. Some of the things that we're discussing here, the AI for Datadog for AI, coding, all that, I think will be fleshed out a bit more at DASH next week. Got it. Thank you. We're all out of time. Yep. Thank you so much, David. Thanks a lot. It was fun. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you. Good interview.
Speaker 2: All right, everybody, let's get this started. My name is Koji Ikeda. I'm one of the software analysts here at Bank of America. Absolutely thrilled. Thank you for joining us for the day two keynote, lunchtime keynote. To have Datadog CFO David Obstler with us, thank you so much for doing this. Appreciate it. All right, everybody, let's get this started. all right everybody let's get this started My name is Koji Ikeda. my name is koji ikeda I'm one of the software analysts here at Bank of America. i'm one of the software analysts here at bank of america Absolutely thrilled. absolutely thrilled Thank you for joining us for the day two keynote, lunchtime keynote. thank you for joining us for the day two keynote lunchtime keynote To have Datadog CFO David Obstler with us, thank you so much for doing this. to have datadog cfo david obstler with us thank you so much for doing this Appreciate it. appreciate it
Speaker 1: Thanks for having us. We appreciate it. Thanks for having us. thanks for having us We appreciate it. we appreciate it
Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. thank you Thank you. thank you We have a lot of people in this room. Thanks again for joining us. some people that know Datadog very, very well. There's also many in this room that might not. Let's start very high level. What is Datadog? What is the core problem Datadog is trying to solve today? We have a lot of people in this room. we have a lot of people in this room Thanks again for joining us. some people that know Datadog very, very well. thanks again for joining us some people that know datadog very very well There's also many in this room that might not. there's also many in this room that might not Let's start very high level. let's start very high level What is Datadog? what is datadog What is the core problem Datadog is trying to solve today? what is the core problem datadog is trying to solve today
Speaker 1: Yeah. Datadog has an observability and security platform that allows the deployment of modern software applications, mainly in cloud environments, in a safe and effective way. Most of our customers are those that have mission-critical software that's customer facing. Think about video or credit card companies or banks or airlines or hotels. All of them have digital applications that interact with their customer. The Datadog platform is used to monitor and secure the effectiveness and operations of those platforms. Most of this is in real time. Datadog, over the years, has had an expanding platform to cover more of the surface area in examining what's happening in those applications and allowing them to operate in a good way for the customers. Yeah. yeah Datadog has an observability and security platform that allows the deployment of modern software applications, mainly in cloud environments, in a safe and effective way. datadog has an observability and security platform that allows the deployment of modern software applications mainly in cloud environments in a safe and effective way Most of our customers are those that have mission-critical software that's customer facing. most of our customers are those that have mission-critical software that's customer facing Think about video or credit card companies or banks or airlines or hotels. think about video or credit card companies or banks or airlines or hotels All of them have digital applications that interact with their customer. all of them have digital applications that interact with their customer The Datadog platform is used to monitor and secure the effectiveness and operations of those platforms. the datadog platform is used to monitor and secure the effectiveness and operations of those platforms Most of this is in real time. most of this is in real time Datadog, over the years, has had an expanding platform to cover more of the surface area in examining what's happening in those applications and allowing them to operate in a good way for the customers. datadog over the years has had an expanding platform to cover more of the surface area in examining what's happening in those applications and allowing them to operate in a good way for the customers
Speaker 2: Your results and fundamentals are accelerating. Clearly, good things are happening. Why is observability and security becoming more mission critical as software complexity and AI adoption accelerates? Your results and fundamentals are accelerating. your results and fundamentals are accelerating Clearly, good things are happening. clearly good things are happening Why is observability and security becoming more mission critical as software complexity and AI adoption accelerates? why is observability and security becoming more mission critical as software complexity and ai adoption accelerates
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, definitely. AI adoption is a part of it, but essentially, we are observing the development and the production of modern applications, mainly in the cloud. As they get more and more complex, and as more and more of those applications are moving from legacy technologies to the cloud and being modernized, that is what Datadog does. What is the effect of AI? One of the things is any time there's been new technologies, of which certainly large language models are one, there has been more of an impetus to modernize the tech stack, and therefore, create more applications that are in the cloud. That creates business drivers and has historically created business drivers that have enhanced the Datadog business. Yeah. yeah Yeah, definitely. yeah definitely AI adoption is a part of it, but essentially, we are observing the development and the production of modern applications, mainly in the cloud. ai adoption is a part of it but essentially we are observing the development and the production of modern applications mainly in the cloud As they get more and more complex, and as more and more of those applications are moving from legacy technologies to the cloud and being modernized, that is what Datadog does. as they get more and more complex and as more and more of those applications are moving from legacy technologies to the cloud and being modernized that is what datadog does What is the effect of AI? what is the effect of ai One of the things is any time there's been new technologies, of which certainly large language models are one, there has been more of an impetus to modernize the tech stack, and therefore, create more applications that are in the cloud. one of the things is any time there's been new technologies of which certainly large language models are one there has been more of an impetus to modernize the tech stack and therefore create more applications that are in the cloud That creates business drivers and has historically created business drivers that have enhanced the Datadog business. that creates business drivers and has historically created business drivers that have enhanced the datadog business This applies both to non-AI native companies who are modernizing their tech stack in order to have large language models in their applications, as well as a set of infrastructure companies who we call AI natives, who are experiencing a demand cycle and have rapid product releases. They're cloud native. Their whole stack is modernized, and they're using, in a very significant way, Datadog products to help observe the delivery of those products to their customers. This applies both to non-AI native companies who are modernizing their tech stack in order to have large language models in their applications, as well as a set of infrastructure companies who we call AI natives, who are experiencing a demand cycle and have rapid product releases. this applies both to non-ai native companies who are modernizing their tech stack in order to have large language models in their applications as well as a set of infrastructure companies who we call ai natives who are experiencing a demand cycle and have rapid product releases They're cloud native. they're cloud native Their whole stack is modernized, and they're using, in a very significant way, Datadog products to help observe the delivery of those products to their customers. their whole stack is modernized and they're using in a very significant way datadog products to help observe the delivery of those products to their customers
Speaker 2: 1Q results. Little while ago, but still. 1Q results. 1q results Little while ago, but still. little while ago but still
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. yeah
Speaker 2: Yeah. It's been a couple weeks. Yeah. yeah It's been a couple weeks. it's been a couple weeks
Speaker 1: Fun memories. Fun memories. Yeah. Fun memories. fun memories Fun memories. fun memories Yeah. yeah
Speaker 2: It's been a couple weeks. I think our started with wow, right? Fantastic results all around. Accelerating growth. Winning new customers you never thought you would have before. Let's tackle the first part about just accelerating growth. Looking over the past six months, what sort of inflections were you seeing from core observability teams out there? It's been a couple weeks. it's been a couple weeks I think our started with wow, right? i think our started with wow right Fantastic results all around. fantastic results all around Accelerating growth. accelerating growth Winning new customers you never thought you would have before. winning new customers you never thought you would have before Let's tackle the first part about just accelerating growth. let's tackle the first part about just accelerating growth Looking over the past six months, what sort of inflections were you seeing from core observability teams out there? looking over the past six months what sort of inflections were you seeing from core observability teams out there
Speaker 1: Yeah. This has been going on for, I think we've been accelerating for three or four quarters. We've been communicating this message that we have seen a good buying environment, that the investments we've made in our platform, we can talk about the number of different products, were resonating, so we're getting more platform growth. We also are having a significant demand cycle in AI native companies. This has been building on itself. We've also been investing substantially in our go-to market over the last year in order to deliver this to our customers. This has been building on itself, and essentially in the first quarter, it continued that trend of acceleration in many areas. The non-AI natives, the AI natives, different geographies, enterprise down to SMB. Those were all contributing factors in producing the first quarter. Yeah. yeah This has been going on for, I think we've been accelerating for three or four quarters. this has been going on for i think we've been accelerating for three or four quarters We've been communicating this message that we have seen a good buying environment, that the investments we've made in our platform, we can talk about the number of different products, were resonating, so we're getting more platform growth. we've been communicating this message that we have seen a good buying environment that the investments we've made in our platform we can talk about the number of different products were resonating so we're getting more platform growth We also are having a significant demand cycle in AI native companies. we also are having a significant demand cycle in ai native companies This has been building on itself. this has been building on itself We've also been investing substantially in our go-to market over the last year in order to deliver this to our customers. we've also been investing substantially in our go-to market over the last year in order to deliver this to our customers This has been building on itself, and essentially in the first quarter, it continued that trend of acceleration in many areas. this has been building on itself and essentially in the first quarter it continued that trend of acceleration in many areas The non-AI natives, the AI natives, different geographies, enterprise down to SMB. the non-ai natives the ai natives different geographies enterprise down to smb Those were all contributing factors in producing the first quarter. those were all contributing factors in producing the first quarter The seeds of that started three to four quarters ago and have been building on itself. The seeds of that started three to four quarters ago and have been building on itself. the seeds of that started three to four quarters ago and have been building on itself
Speaker 2: Let's talk a little bit about the multi-products. You guys give a lot of metrics. Two plus products, I think four, six, eight, 10? I think I got that right? Let's talk a little bit about the multi-products. let's talk a little bit about the multi-products You guys give a lot of metrics. you guys give a lot of metrics Two plus products, I think four, six, eight, 10? two plus products i think four six eight 10 I think I got that right? i think i got that right
Speaker 1: 10, yes. 10, yes. 10 yes
Speaker 2: What are the products that are driving the most multi-product usage? Out of those metrics, the two, four, six, eight, 10, which is the one we should be focusing on? What are the products that are driving the most multi-product usage? what are the products that are driving the most multi-product usage Out of those metrics, the two, four, six, eight, 10, which is the one we should be focusing on? out of those metrics the two four six eight 10 which is the one we should be focusing on
Speaker 1: Essentially, the benefit of Datadog is that you can do all of your observation actions in a single platform. In some ways, it's a single product, the platform. At the epicenter, and this has been going on for some time, you have the, what we used to call the three pillars, which are Infrastructure or metrics, Application Monitoring or traces, and then logs. We've had a very substantial demand cycle from what we call Digital Experience. This is taking how an application interacts with customers from the back end all the way out to the mobile device, et cetera. That's called, that's RUM, and that's Synthetics, et cetera. Those are bigger products for us. Those have been growing very rapidly, and there has been a consolidation away from both point solutions and do it yourself towards our platform. Essentially, the benefit of Datadog is that you can do all of your observation actions in a single platform. essentially the benefit of datadog is that you can do all of your observation actions in a single platform In some ways, it's a single product, the platform. in some ways it's a single product the platform At the epicenter, and this has been going on for some time, you have the, what we used to call the three pillars, which are Infrastructure or metrics, Application Monitoring or traces, and then logs. at the epicenter and this has been going on for some time you have the what we used to call the three pillars which are infrastructure or metrics application monitoring or traces and then logs We've had a very substantial demand cycle from what we call Digital Experience. we've had a very substantial demand cycle from what we call digital experience This is taking how an application interacts with customers from the back end all the way out to the mobile device, et cetera. this is taking how an application interacts with customers from the back end all the way out to the mobile device et cetera That's called, that's RUM, and that's Synthetics, et cetera. that's called that's rum and that's synthetics et cetera Those are bigger products for us. those are bigger products for us Those have been growing very rapidly, and there has been a consolidation away from both point solutions and do it yourself towards our platform. those have been growing very rapidly and there has been a consolidation away from both point solutions and do it yourself towards our platform That has been enhanced by some other products that we've put on our platform, including our Cloud Security products, our Service Management, which is basically interacting with the users to be able to manage cases, et cetera. What we call the products that allow you to A/B test on different applications and determine what's most effective. We've been adding on additional products on top of that, and then we started to add on what we call AI for Datadog and Datadog for AI. Datadog for AI is most of our business is created because there are many things that impact an application. What I just mentioned, plus databases, plus network, and now you have LLMs and other things. That has been enhanced by some other products that we've put on our platform, including our Cloud Security products, our Service Management, which is basically interacting with the users to be able to manage cases, et cetera. that has been enhanced by some other products that we've put on our platform including our cloud security products our service management which is basically interacting with the users to be able to manage cases et cetera What we call the products that allow you to A/B test on different applications and determine what's most effective. what we call the products that allow you to a/b test on different applications and determine what's most effective We've been adding on additional products on top of that, and then we started to add on what we call AI for Datadog and Datadog for AI. we've been adding on additional products on top of that and then we started to add on what we call ai for datadog and datadog for ai Datadog for AI is most of our business is created because there are many things that impact an application. datadog for ai is most of our business is created because there are many things that impact an application What I just mentioned, plus databases, plus network, and now you have LLMs and other things. what i just mentioned plus databases plus network and now you have llms and other things We've been working to monitor those, and they are being adopted as well as AI for Datadog, which is how can the platform get smarter and service the customers, and these are things like our Bits SRE. All of those have been developed and are starting to get traction, which is enhancing what had happened over the last three or four years in the core pillars. We've been working to monitor those, and they are being adopted as well as AI for Datadog, which is how can the platform get smarter and service the customers, and these are things like our Bits SRE. we've been working to monitor those and they are being adopted as well as ai for datadog which is how can the platform get smarter and service the customers and these are things like our bits sre All of those have been developed and are starting to get traction, which is enhancing what had happened over the last three or four years in the core pillars. all of those have been developed and are starting to get traction which is enhancing what had happened over the last three or four years in the core pillars
Speaker 2: Infrastructure Monitoring, APM logs are all big ARR businesses. Infrastructure Monitoring, APM logs are all big ARR businesses. infrastructure monitoring apm logs are all big arr businesses
Speaker 1: They're all over $1 billion, sure. They're all over $1 billion, sure. they're all over $1 billion sure
Speaker 2: Remind me, out of the other products. What sort of metrics you gave on scale? I think there's a bunch that are $10+ million. Is there the potential for some of those to reach $100 million, $200 million, $500 million? Remind me, out of the other products. remind me out of the other products What sort of metrics you gave on scale? what sort of metrics you gave on scale I think there's a bunch that are $10+ million . i think there's a bunch that are $10+ million Is there the potential for some of those to reach $100 million, $200 million, $500 million? is there the potential for some of those to reach $100 million $200 million $500 million
Speaker 1: We've been doing this. We've been giving a lot of metrics. Our RUM and Synthetics have passed through that, we gave metrics on that. We gave metrics, I think, that Security passed $100 million. We've been doing is over time, as we reach these metrics, generally around 50 and 100, we have been giving those metrics. We had the passing of 100, which was the ones I mentioned, Security. We had a number of other products that were reaching the 50, which were things like database and network. I'm not sure I have all of this exactly right. We gave metrics, we have a lot of other products that are passing through 10 in multiples. We've been doing this. we've been doing this We've been giving a lot of metrics. we've been giving a lot of metrics Our RUM and Synthetics have passed through that, we gave metrics on that. our rum and synthetics have passed through that we gave metrics on that We gave metrics, I think, that Security passed $100 million. we gave metrics i think that security passed $100 million We've been doing is over time, as we reach these metrics, generally around 50 and 100, we have been giving those metrics. we've been doing is over time as we reach these metrics generally around 50 and 100 we have been giving those metrics We had the passing of 100, which was the ones I mentioned, Security. we had the passing of 100 which was the ones i mentioned security We had a number of other products that were reaching the 50, which were things like database and network. we had a number of other products that were reaching the 50 which were things like database and network I'm not sure I have all of this exactly right. i'm not sure i have all of this exactly right We gave metrics, we have a lot of other products that are passing through 10 in multiples. we gave metrics we have a lot of other products that are passing through 10 in multiples Yes, we have a lot of products that have been scaling this, and what we said was there's lots of opportunities, and what we're going to do is we're going to give, as we reach these milestones, we're going to give those metrics so that everyone can follow along. Things that show a lot of promise are like Bits AI SRE. These things like the Product Analytics we talked about, which is really about how an application is constructed and interacts with clients. These are all smaller products, but the TAM there and other point solutions are much larger than we're at today, and so we're optimistic we can scale those different milestones as well. Yes, we have a lot of products that have been scaling this, and what we said was there's lots of opportunities, and what we're going to do is we're going to give, as we reach these milestones, we're going to give those metrics so that everyone can follow along. yes we have a lot of products that have been scaling this and what we said was there's lots of opportunities and what we're going to do is we're going to give as we reach these milestones we're going to give those metrics so that everyone can follow along Things that show a lot of promise are like Bits AI SRE. things that show a lot of promise are like bits ai sre These things like the Product Analytics we talked about, which is really about how an application is constructed and interacts with clients. these things like the product analytics we talked about which is really about how an application is constructed and interacts with clients These are all smaller products, but the TAM there and other point solutions are much larger than we're at today, and so we're optimistic we can scale those different milestones as well. these are all smaller products but the tam there and other point solutions are much larger than we're at today and so we're optimistic we can scale those different milestones as well
Speaker 2: Yep. In the oneQ results, you guys won a lot of, I mean, you guys have been winning big deals for a while now. What's going on there with the big enterprises? Is it the go-to-market motion getting better in the enterprise need something more like Datadog? Maybe it's a confluence of both. Help me understand the big deal activity. Yep. yep In the oneQ results, you guys won a lot of, I mean, you guys have been winning big deals for a while now. in the oneq results you guys won a lot of i mean you guys have been winning big deals for a while now What's going on there with the big enterprises? what's going on there with the big enterprises Is it the go-to-market motion getting better in the enterprise need something more like Datadog? is it the go-to-market motion getting better in the enterprise need something more like datadog Maybe it's a confluence of both. maybe it's a confluence of both Help me understand the big deal activity. help me understand the big deal activity
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's definitely a confluence of both. You have in a customer base that has been around for a long time, therefore, they're not cloud natives, they didn't just get birthed. They have legacy technologies. They have a long way to go. There's somewhat 25%-30% of workloads in the cloud right now and modernized. They are continuing to find use cases and modernizing. Datadog's platform is getting bigger and better, we're consolidating market share onto our platform, we're getting better about delivering the enterprise service model, whether that be channel partners, customer service, technical help, the whole ecosystem to be able to deliver. All of that has been what we've been investing behind for some time that is bearing fruits. That's resulted in some large lands. We still are largely a land and expand, some very substantial expansions. Yeah, it's definitely a confluence of both. yeah it's definitely a confluence of both You have in a customer base that has been around for a long time, therefore, they're not cloud natives, they didn't just get birthed. you have in a customer base that has been around for a long time therefore they're not cloud natives they didn't just get birthed They have legacy technologies. they have legacy technologies They have a long way to go. they have a long way to go There's somewhat 25%-30% of workloads in the cloud right now and modernized. there's somewhat 25%-30% of workloads in the cloud right now and modernized They are continuing to find use cases and modernizing. they are continuing to find use cases and modernizing Datadog's platform is getting bigger and better, we're consolidating market share onto our platform, we're getting better about delivering the enterprise service model, whether that be channel partners, customer service, technical help, the whole ecosystem to be able to deliver. datadog's platform is getting bigger and better we're consolidating market share onto our platform we're getting better about delivering the enterprise service model whether that be channel partners customer service technical help the whole ecosystem to be able to deliver All of that has been what we've been investing behind for some time that is bearing fruits. all of that has been what we've been investing behind for some time that is bearing fruits That's resulted in some large lands. that's resulted in some large lands We still are largely a land and expand, some very substantial expansions. we still are largely a land and expand some very substantial expansions When we've given our customer examples, if anybody is curious to go back and look at the scripts, what you'll see is a great combination of what the economy is. You'll see insurance companies, financial service companies, tractor companies, all sorts of different car companies, airlines. You'll see how this is evolving in the spread of the business towards cloud natives and certainly AI natives, which we'll talk about, but also the cloud nativity within very large traditional enterprises. When we've given our customer examples, if anybody is curious to go back and look at the scripts, what you'll see is a great combination of what the economy is. when we've given our customer examples if anybody is curious to go back and look at the scripts what you'll see is a great combination of what the economy is You'll see insurance companies, financial service companies, tractor companies, all sorts of different car companies, airlines. you'll see insurance companies financial service companies tractor companies all sorts of different car companies airlines You'll see how this is evolving in the spread of the business towards cloud natives and certainly AI natives, which we'll talk about, but also the cloud nativity within very large traditional enterprises. you'll see how this is evolving in the spread of the business towards cloud natives and certainly ai natives which we'll talk about but also the cloud nativity within very large traditional enterprises
Speaker 2: Is there any limitation to the type of company or size of company that might not look at Datadog anymore, or is Datadog available to all types of companies? Is there any limitation to the type of company or size of company that might not look at Datadog anymore, or is Datadog available to all types of companies? is there any limitation to the type of company or size of company that might not look at datadog anymore or is datadog available to all types of companies
Speaker 1: Well, there are some companies that have in their past want to do this themselves. They're very few. I mean, maybe I think Google's a good example of trying to do things themselves. That's not really core to our business, although, and we'll talk about it, there's examples where we've gotten those types of businesses, and we'll talk about that. I think the other thing is, if we generally are delivering our product through the cloud, so if you require an on-premise solution for regulatory or other reasons, that has by choice not been where we've concentrated our R&D. We are developing more of those products, so you can see companies which, because of either their practices or their regulation, cannot have data leave their premise. That would be a company that is not core to Datadog's end market. Well, there are some companies that have in their past want to do this themselves. well there are some companies that have in their past want to do this themselves They're very few. they're very few I mean, maybe I think Google's a good example of trying to do things themselves. i mean maybe i think google's a good example of trying to do things themselves That's not really core to our business, although, and we'll talk about it, there's examples where we've gotten those types of businesses, and we'll talk about that. that's not really core to our business although and we'll talk about it there's examples where we've gotten those types of businesses and we'll talk about that I think the other thing is, if we generally are delivering our product through the cloud, so if you require an on-premise solution for regulatory or other reasons, that has by choice not been where we've concentrated our R&D. i think the other thing is if we generally are delivering our product through the cloud so if you require an on-premise solution for regulatory or other reasons that has by choice not been where we've concentrated our r&d We are developing more of those products, so you can see companies which, because of either their practices or their regulation, cannot have data leave their premise. we are developing more of those products so you can see companies which because of either their practices or their regulation cannot have data leave their premise That would be a company that is not core to Datadog's end market. that would be a company that is not core to datadog's end market
Speaker 2: Yep. Yep. yep
Speaker 1: Yep. Yep. yep
Speaker 2: Last quarter, you guys talked about winning some AI labs within some large tech companies. Let's talk about that. What happened there? Why did they come to you? What were they looking for how are you guys helping solve that problem? Last quarter, you guys talked about winning some AI labs within some large tech companies. last quarter you guys talked about winning some ai labs within some large tech companies Let's talk about that. let's talk about that What happened there? what happened there Why did they come to you? why did they come to you What were they looking for how are you guys helping solve that problem? what were they looking for how are you guys helping solve that problem
Speaker 1: Yeah. As background, I think there's a lot of information we've given, a lot of information about how pervasive the AI business has been, this includes some of the foundation model companies in database, companies that are vertical. Already Datadog has been used pretty pervasively in the monitoring side. Production work environments, inference production, I think we said over 650, we gave a lot of statistics on spending over $10 million and 10+ products. What we added to that is that two larger companies, a hyperscaler and another very large tech company that have model creation within their businesses, foundational models, had used Datadog for training as well. Most of the time, our end market has been for production workloads. Yeah. yeah As background, I think there's a lot of information we've given, a lot of information about how pervasive the AI business has been, this includes some of the foundation model companies in database, companies that are vertical. as background i think there's a lot of information we've given a lot of information about how pervasive the ai business has been this includes some of the foundation model companies in database companies that are vertical Already Datadog has been used pretty pervasively in the monitoring side. already datadog has been used pretty pervasively in the monitoring side Production work environments, inference production, I think we said over 650, we gave a lot of statistics on spending over $10 million and 10+ products. production work environments inference production i think we said over 650 we gave a lot of statistics on spending over $10 million and 10+ products What we added to that is that two larger companies, a hyperscaler and another very large tech company that have model creation within their businesses, foundational models, had used Datadog for training as well. what we added to that is that two larger companies a hyperscaler and another very large tech company that have model creation within their businesses foundational models had used datadog for training as well Most of the time, our end market has been for production workloads. most of the time our end market has been for production workloads As a couple things have happened, as there is a boundary between training research or training and when it has to go into production, that we've now been able to have some customers buy from us. In this case, they were some large customers, a hyperscaler, who traditionally does more things on their own but use Datadog. What we found is this is an example of the fact that they may not be using Datadog pervasively, but there are use cases where they're going to be using Datadog, and that's a great voice of confidence that these companies whose whole business is this are using Datadog. It's sort of like a seal of approval. As a couple things have happened, as there is a boundary between training research or training and when it has to go into production, that we've now been able to have some customers buy from us. as a couple things have happened as there is a boundary between training research or training and when it has to go into production that we've now been able to have some customers buy from us In this case, they were some large customers, a hyperscaler, who traditionally does more things on their own but use Datadog. in this case they were some large customers a hyperscaler who traditionally does more things on their own but use datadog What we found is this is an example of the fact that they may not be using Datadog pervasively, but there are use cases where they're going to be using Datadog, and that's a great voice of confidence that these companies whose whole business is this are using Datadog. what we found is this is an example of the fact that they may not be using datadog pervasively but there are use cases where they're going to be using datadog and that's a great voice of confidence that these companies whose whole business is this are using datadog It's sort of like a seal of approval. it's sort of like a seal of approval
Speaker 2: You mentioned earlier in our conversation that Datadog does well with inference. Now you're saying training too. You mentioned earlier in our conversation that Datadog does well with inference. you mentioned earlier in our conversation that datadog does well with inference Now you're saying training too. now you're saying training too
Speaker 1: We're saying it maybe. Maybe we're saying we have, but we haven't said. We generally don't overpromise. When we have a certain amount of training that is spread out, we'll tell you. Right now, it's more of a sort of centralized. We're saying it maybe. we're saying it maybe Maybe we're saying we have, but we haven't said. maybe we're saying we have but we haven't said We generally don't overpromise. we generally don't overpromise When we have a certain amount of training that is spread out, we'll tell you. when we have a certain amount of training that is spread out we'll tell you Right now, it's more of a sort of centralized. right now it's more of a sort of centralized
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. yeah
Speaker 1: It's good, but we have said most of our revenues we expect to be from production and inference. We'll see what happens. We'll bring everyone along. It's good, but we have said most of our revenues we expect to be from production and inference. it's good but we have said most of our revenues we expect to be from production and inference We'll see what happens. we'll see what happens We'll bring everyone along. we'll bring everyone along
Speaker 2: But does it, as we think about AI in the future and more enterprises, organizations building their own things, large small language models, for all. How does Datadog think about that opportunity and maybe even going after it a little bit? But does it, as we think about AI in the future and more enterprises, organizations building their own things, large small language models, for all. but does it as we think about ai in the future and more enterprises organizations building their own things large small language models for all How does Datadog think about that opportunity and maybe even going after it a little bit? how does datadog think about that opportunity and maybe even going after it a little bit
Speaker 1: We'll prepare ourselves for that opportunity. I think that for the most part, when you think about production, so I think we're always, even if we're in training, we'll always be somewhat proximate to production. There could be market extensions, but essentially you use Datadog when it can't go down. If you're training, yeah, if you're training, and by definition the sandbox you're not putting into production. You have different impetus. Maybe that'll happen, and we certainly are preparing our products. They're the same products. We certainly will have the products, and we certainly are in touch with customers, and we certainly will push that if it makes sense for customers. We just don't know the answer whether that's going to be a core market or a specialist market for us. We'll prepare ourselves for that opportunity. we'll prepare ourselves for that opportunity I think that for the most part, when you think about production, so I think we're always, even if we're in training, we'll always be somewhat proximate to production. i think that for the most part when you think about production so i think we're always even if we're in training we'll always be somewhat proximate to production There could be market extensions, but essentially you use Datadog when it can't go down. there could be market extensions but essentially you use datadog when it can't go down If you're training, yeah, if you're training, and by definition the sandbox you're not putting into production. if you're training yeah if you're training and by definition the sandbox you're not putting into production You have different impetus. you have different impetus Maybe that'll happen, and we certainly are preparing our products. maybe that'll happen and we certainly are preparing our products They're the same products. they're the same products We certainly will have the products, and we certainly are in touch with customers, and we certainly will push that if it makes sense for customers. we certainly will have the products and we certainly are in touch with customers and we certainly will push that if it makes sense for customers We just don't know the answer whether that's going to be a core market or a specialist market for us. we just don't know the answer whether that's going to be a core market or a specialist market for us
Speaker 2: When I think about observability in the most simplistic way. It's data ingestion and analysis. I know it's much more complicated than that, and the architecture is very important in the way to address that. When I think about observability in the most simplistic way. when i think about observability in the most simplistic way It's data ingestion and analysis. it's data ingestion and analysis I know it's much more complicated than that, and the architecture is very important in the way to address that. i know it's much more complicated than that and the architecture is very important in the way to address that
Speaker 1: Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. yeah Mm-hmm. mm-hmm
Speaker 2: Maybe help explain to those in the room, again, less familiar with Datadog. What is it specifically about the technology architecture that takes this what could be a simple concept into a very complicated something that you have to invest in and difficult to replicate? Maybe help explain to those in the room, again, less familiar with Datadog. maybe help explain to those in the room again less familiar with datadog What is it specifically about the technology architecture that takes this what could be a simple concept into a very complicated something that you have to invest in and difficult to replicate? what is it specifically about the technology architecture that takes this what could be a simple concept into a very complicated something that you have to invest in and difficult to replicate
Speaker 1: Yeah. Before we get to the architecture, one of the things is data. Datadog. Okay. It isn't true. There's not one data. We have 1,000+ integrations. When you think about the operation of a cloud application in real time, CPUs, GPUs, databases, lines of code, network, all sorts of things. One of the things that, and this gets to the architecture, that Datadog did very early is they developed a common architecture to take all that data from all the different parts that could affect and organize it and put it in one place and make it transparent so you can see. Yeah. yeah Before we get to the architecture, one of the things is data. before we get to the architecture one of the things is data Datadog. datadog Okay. okay It isn't true. it isn't true There's not one data. there's not one data We have 1,000+ integrations. we have 1,000+ integrations When you think about the operation of a cloud application in real time, CPUs, GPUs, databases, lines of code, network, all sorts of things. when you think about the operation of a cloud application in real time cpus gpus databases lines of code network all sorts of things One of the things that, and this gets to the architecture, that Datadog did very early is they developed a common architecture to take all that data from all the different parts that could affect and organize it and put it in one place and make it transparent so you can see. one of the things that and this gets to the architecture that datadog did very early is they developed a common architecture to take all that data from all the different parts that could affect and organize it and put it in one place and make it transparent so you can see That is very hard to do, and that's the reason why point solutions don't really make sense because none of the customers are saying, "I want to see what happened to that line of code." They say, "I want to see what happened to the functioning of the application." So you have to see all of it. That's one thing. The architecture is that Datadog organized that data, knitted it together, provided user interfaces and other ways to see it in real time, correlated. This is being enhanced by AI now, which is using large language models to do diagnosis and maybe even one day self-remediate, and produce it all knitted together. That's hard to do because there are a lot of factors. That is very hard to do, and that's the reason why point solutions don't really make sense because none of the customers are saying, "I want to see what happened to that line of code." They say, "I want to see what happened to the functioning of the application." So you have to see all of it. that is very hard to do and that's the reason why point solutions don't really make sense because none of the customers are saying "i want to see what happened to that line of code." they say "i want to see what happened to the functioning of the application." so you have to see all of it That's one thing. that's one thing The architecture is that Datadog organized that data, knitted it together, provided user interfaces and other ways to see it in real time, correlated. the architecture is that datadog organized that data knitted it together provided user interfaces and other ways to see it in real time correlated This is being enhanced by AI now, which is using large language models to do diagnosis and maybe even one day self-remediate, and produce it all knitted together. this is being enhanced by ai now which is using large language models to do diagnosis and maybe even one day self-remediate and produce it all knitted together That's hard to do because there are a lot of factors. that's hard to do because there are a lot of factors Many other companies have tried to do this piecemeal, and it's all gone back to that integrated data model, putting the analytics on top of it, having a simple but not simplistic, meaning everybody can use it. We don't charge by seat. We benefit when everybody goes into this utility and uses it, and that helps us. All of that architecture has been an architecture which provides the most value to our customer base in analyzing. It all has to be real time because this isn't like, okay, I produced some marketing collateral. There's an error in it. I can fix it. This is your whole business on the front end. That's what's created it. Then all the different pieces, adding on all these different pieces and knitting together, have been complex. Many other companies have tried to do this piecemeal, and it's all gone back to that integrated data model, putting the analytics on top of it, having a simple but not simplistic, meaning everybody can use it. many other companies have tried to do this piecemeal and it's all gone back to that integrated data model putting the analytics on top of it having a simple but not simplistic meaning everybody can use it We don't charge by seat. we don't charge by seat We benefit when everybody goes into this utility and uses it, and that helps us. we benefit when everybody goes into this utility and uses it and that helps us All of that architecture has been an architecture which provides the most value to our customer base in analyzing. all of that architecture has been an architecture which provides the most value to our customer base in analyzing It all has to be real time because this isn't like, okay, I produced some marketing collateral. it all has to be real time because this isn't like okay i produced some marketing collateral There's an error in it. there's an error in it I can fix it. i can fix it This is your whole business on the front end. this is your whole business on the front end That's what's created it. that's what's created it Then all the different pieces, adding on all these different pieces and knitting together, have been complex. then all the different pieces adding on all these different pieces and knitting together have been complex Right now we have a competitive advantage in that we have a very large platform. Its scale can handle anybody's scale. It basically organizes all this for everybody, and it allows you to have a significant platform investment to amortize application investment on top of it, which is a big competitive advantage. Right now we have a competitive advantage in that we have a very large platform. right now we have a competitive advantage in that we have a very large platform Its scale can handle anybody's scale. its scale can handle anybody's scale It basically organizes all this for everybody, and it allows you to have a significant platform investment to amortize application investment on top of it, which is a big competitive advantage. it basically organizes all this for everybody and it allows you to have a significant platform investment to amortize application investment on top of it which is a big competitive advantage
Speaker 2: I wanted to dig in on the Datadog AI strategy also the data for your AI strategy. Let's hit the data first. What is so special about the data that Datadog has? How long do you think it would be, even if it's feasible for a competitor to amass that type of data to be competitive? I wanted to dig in on the Datadog AI strategy also the data for your AI strategy. i wanted to dig in on the datadog ai strategy also the data for your ai strategy Let's hit the data first. let's hit the data first What is so special about the data that Datadog has? what is so special about the data that datadog has How long do you think it would be, even if it's feasible for a competitor to amass that type of data to be competitive? how long do you think it would be even if it's feasible for a competitor to amass that type of data to be competitive
Speaker 1: Yeah, it wouldn't be feasible at a price point that would be competitive. In other words, large language models are by definition large. What they're doing is they're looking at lots of data. Our strategy in the model side is to offer that, but also then have a set of models that are very specific to observability and security use cases. Then to make them because of all the data we have, and then both have a higher functioning model and a cheaper model. If it's not a generalist model, you don't have to pay the cost of all that stuff that doesn't apply to your use case. That's what we're doing in the model side. There's a whole bunch of different things. I'm speaking now about AI for Datadog. We'll get to Datadog for AI, which is all the DNA that goes in. Yeah, it wouldn't be feasible at a price point that would be competitive. yeah it wouldn't be feasible at a price point that would be competitive In other words, large language models are by definition large. in other words large language models are by definition large What they're doing is they're looking at lots of data. what they're doing is they're looking at lots of data Our strategy in the model side is to offer that, but also then have a set of models that are very specific to observability and security use cases. our strategy in the model side is to offer that but also then have a set of models that are very specific to observability and security use cases Then to make them because of all the data we have, and then both have a higher functioning model and a cheaper model. then to make them because of all the data we have and then both have a higher functioning model and a cheaper model If it's not a generalist model, you don't have to pay the cost of all that stuff that doesn't apply to your use case. if it's not a generalist model you don't have to pay the cost of all that stuff that doesn't apply to your use case That's what we're doing in the model side. that's what we're doing in the model side There's a whole bunch of different things. there's a whole bunch of different things I'm speaking now about AI for Datadog. i'm speaking now about ai for datadog We'll get to Datadog for AI, which is all the DNA that goes in. we'll get to datadog for ai which is all the dna that goes in There's also the ability to connect to all the software creation on the agent side, whether it be an agent or machine or person, we don't care. Whatever's creating and getting towards an application to see what's going on there and then correlate that with everything else that's affecting the application. All of those are things that we're putting in our platform. We're having our user conference in, is it a week? There's also the ability to connect to all the software creation on the agent side, whether it be an agent or machine or person, we don't care. there's also the ability to connect to all the software creation on the agent side whether it be an agent or machine or person we don't care Whatever's creating and getting towards an application to see what's going on there and then correlate that with everything else that's affecting the application. whatever's creating and getting towards an application to see what's going on there and then correlate that with everything else that's affecting the application All of those are things that we're putting in our platform. all of those are things that we're putting in our platform We're having our user conference in, is it a week? we're having our user conference in is it a week Next week. There'll be a lot of product releases. Our investor day also had a very strong articulation of this. What that will enable us to do is, and is already, is basically making the platform smarter, being able to diagnose very quickly what's going on, being able to make recommendations on what to do about it, and in some cases to actually implement those recommendations. That's the vision. That's what the whole Service Management vision is in the model. That's like the investment in AI for Datadog to make the platform enabled to see all those things and use large language models, whether they be the third party or our own to be smart. Next week. next week There'll be a lot of product releases. there'll be a lot of product releases Our investor day also had a very strong articulation of this. our investor day also had a very strong articulation of this What that will enable us to do is, and is already, is basically making the platform smarter, being able to diagnose very quickly what's going on, being able to make recommendations on what to do about it, and in some cases to actually implement those recommendations. what that will enable us to do is and is already is basically making the platform smarter being able to diagnose very quickly what's going on being able to make recommendations on what to do about it and in some cases to actually implement those recommendations That's the vision. that's the vision That's what the whole Service Management vision is in the model. that's what the whole service management vision is in the model That's like the investment in AI for Datadog to make the platform enabled to see all those things and use large language models, whether they be the third party or our own to be smart. that's like the investment in ai for datadog to make the platform enabled to see all those things and use large language models whether they be the third party or our own to be smart
Speaker 2: Let's talk about your AI products. The Bits AI products. Actually I don't even know how many you have. What do you have and how should we think about the AI products? Let's talk about your AI products. let's talk about your ai products The Bits AI products. the bits ai products Actually I don't even know how many you have. actually i don't even know how many you have What do you have and how should we think about the AI products? what do you have and how should we think about the ai products
Speaker 1: Heading first into monitoring data flows. We have LLM Observability. That is the functioning of an LLM model. Think of it as you have databases, you have lines of code. That is where you have LLMs in a production model application. You're using signals to understand is that affecting the performance of the application. I think we've said that that is germane to having LLMs in production. We've had significant growth there, still early days. We're getting revenues from that. We have GPU, which is essentially like an infrastructure product, but instead of CPU, GPU, where you're seeing how the application might or the model might interact with GPUs in delivering. That's similar to our other products where you have to see how the servers or the GPUs are doing. Heading first into monitoring data flows. heading first into monitoring data flows We have LLM Observability. we have llm observability That is the functioning of an LLM model. that is the functioning of an llm model Think of it as you have databases, you have lines of code. think of it as you have databases you have lines of code That is where you have LLMs in a production model application. that is where you have llms in a production model application You're using signals to understand is that affecting the performance of the application. you're using signals to understand is that affecting the performance of the application I think we've said that that is germane to having LLMs in production. i think we've said that that is germane to having llms in production We've had significant growth there, still early days. we've had significant growth there still early days We're getting revenues from that. we're getting revenues from that We have GPU, which is essentially like an infrastructure product, but instead of CPU, GPU, where you're seeing how the application might or the model might interact with GPUs in delivering. we have gpu which is essentially like an infrastructure product but instead of cpu gpu where you're seeing how the application might or the model might interact with gpus in delivering That's similar to our other products where you have to see how the servers or the GPUs are doing. that's similar to our other products where you have to see how the servers or the gpus are doing That is sort of examples of Datadog Monitoring things that affect, so that's Datadog for AI. You have AI for Datadog, and those products are the Bits products. Bits is sort of a general name. Bits is our mascot, our dog, that's why we are using Bits. It's very cute. For different end markets, SRE would be the systems reliability engineers, et cetera. That product is out there. There are 2,000 customers using that. I think we have 100,000 or more investigations. We also have products in for development and for security that we're rolling out in the Bits suite. We also have, as I mentioned, the ability to connect to the code generation through our MCP Server, when that will enable that information to get into Datadog and monitor that. That is sort of examples of Datadog Monitoring things that affect, so that's Datadog for AI. that is sort of examples of datadog monitoring things that affect so that's datadog for ai You have AI for Datadog, and those products are the Bits products. you have ai for datadog and those products are the bits products Bits is sort of a general name. bits is sort of a general name Bits is our mascot, our dog, that's why we are using Bits. bits is our mascot our dog that's why we are using bits It's very cute. it's very cute For different end markets, SRE would be the systems reliability engineers, et cetera. for different end markets sre would be the systems reliability engineers et cetera That product is out there. that product is out there There are 2,000 customers using that. there are 2,000 customers using that I think we have 100,000 or more investigations. i think we have 100,000 or more investigations We also have products in for development and for security that we're rolling out in the Bits suite. we also have products in for development and for security that we're rolling out in the bits suite We also have, as I mentioned, the ability to connect to the code generation through our MCP Server, when that will enable that information to get into Datadog and monitor that. we also have as i mentioned the ability to connect to the code generation through our mcp server when that will enable that information to get into datadog and monitor that We also have a bunch of other products, Cloud Cost Management, et cetera, that is being able to monitor on sort of the cost and management side, how much you're spending on tokens, who's using it. We have Cloud Cost Management, and now we're extending that into agentic monitoring. That was a long talk. Apologize for that. There's a lot of names, but those are some of the product lines that are being put out to market in those areas. We also have a bunch of other products, Cloud Cost Management, et cetera, that is being able to monitor on sort of the cost and management side, how much you're spending on tokens, who's using it. we also have a bunch of other products cloud cost management et cetera that is being able to monitor on sort of the cost and management side how much you're spending on tokens who's using it We have Cloud Cost Management, and now we're extending that into agentic monitoring. we have cloud cost management and now we're extending that into agentic monitoring That was a long talk. that was a long talk Apologize for that. apologize for that There's a lot of names, but those are some of the product lines that are being put out to market in those areas. there's a lot of names but those are some of the product lines that are being put out to market in those areas
Speaker 2: Yeah. I want to talk about platform consolidation. Good driver of growth for you guys. What is driving platform consolidation today with the large enterprises? Does that theme of what they're doing today for consolidation just continue into the future? Does consolidation maybe change? Yeah. yeah I want to talk about platform consolidation. i want to talk about platform consolidation Good driver of growth for you guys. good driver of growth for you guys What is driving platform consolidation today with the large enterprises? what is driving platform consolidation today with the large enterprises Does that theme of what they're doing today for consolidation just continue into the future? does that theme of what they're doing today for consolidation just continue into the future Does consolidation maybe change? does consolidation maybe change
Speaker 1: Yeah. You might wonder why didn't all this happen already? Why didn't everyone just buy everything in Datadog to begin with, and it's already pre-consolidated? The reason is, one, Datadog didn't have these products 10 years ago. There are other products out there, and there are contracts that customers have with those products. We're in an environment that it's happening over time. Why is it happening at all? It has to do with that if you are a practitioner and you need to operate in real time, you do not want to be context shifting. You don't want to be going into a lot of different data sources. It's slower. It's actually more costly. As we've developed these products and clients have looked at the utility and they've gotten off of contracts, this has been going on for some time. Yeah. yeah You might wonder why didn't all this happen already? you might wonder why didn't all this happen already Why didn't everyone just buy everything in Datadog to begin with, and it's already pre-consolidated? why didn't everyone just buy everything in datadog to begin with and it's already pre-consolidated The reason is, one, Datadog didn't have these products 10 years ago. the reason is one datadog didn't have these products 10 years ago There are other products out there, and there are contracts that customers have with those products. there are other products out there and there are contracts that customers have with those products We're in an environment that it's happening over time. we're in an environment that it's happening over time Why is it happening at all? why is it happening at all It has to do with that if you are a practitioner and you need to operate in real time, you do not want to be context shifting. it has to do with that if you are a practitioner and you need to operate in real time you do not want to be context shifting You don't want to be going into a lot of different data sources. you don't want to be going into a lot of different data sources It's slower. it's slower It's actually more costly. it's actually more costly As we've developed these products and clients have looked at the utility and they've gotten off of contracts, this has been going on for some time. as we've developed these products and clients have looked at the utility and they've gotten off of contracts this has been going on for some time I think as the product suite has been getting better and better and better, the components all getting to product parity and beyond, it's been accelerating. Yeah, I think we're very early on in this. There's proliferation. There's a lot of observability point solutions out there. Like I said, all of the decision making is leading towards consolidation in the single platform. We think we're pretty early on in that trend. I think as the product suite has been getting better and better and better, the components all getting to product parity and beyond, it's been accelerating. i think as the product suite has been getting better and better and better the components all getting to product parity and beyond it's been accelerating Yeah, I think we're very early on in this. yeah i think we're very early on in this There's proliferation. there's proliferation There's a lot of observability point solutions out there. there's a lot of observability point solutions out there Like I said, all of the decision making is leading towards consolidation in the single platform. like i said all of the decision making is leading towards consolidation in the single platform We think we're pretty early on in that trend. we think we're pretty early on in that trend
Speaker 2: Do your buyers still think about, and we'll talk about in the three core applications. Infra, APM, log analytics. Do they still think about that as three separate products, or are customers beginning to come to you and saying, "Please solve this"? Do your buyers still think about, and we'll talk about in the three core applications. do your buyers still think about and we'll talk about in the three core applications Infra, APM, log analytics. infra apm log analytics Do they still think about that as three separate products, or are customers beginning to come to you and saying, "Please solve this"? do they still think about that as three separate products or are customers beginning to come to you and saying "please solve this"
Speaker 1: No. For a long time, we've been selling as credit. You buy $2 billion of Datadog, you go in and you use all this. No, they've never thought of it as different products. We're doing that in order to provide transparency to you all. It's one product. They don't care what they're called. They only care about doing their job, site reliability engineering. This happened a long time ago. That's what made Datadog, and they think of it as the platform. No. no For a long time, we've been selling as credit. for a long time we've been selling as credit You buy $2 billion of Datadog, you go in and you use all this. you buy $2 billion of datadog you go in and you use all this No, they've never thought of it as different products. no they've never thought of it as different products We're doing that in order to provide transparency to you all. we're doing that in order to provide transparency to you all It's one product. it's one product They don't care what they're called. they don't care what they're called They only care about doing their job, site reliability engineering. they only care about doing their job site reliability engineering This happened a long time ago. this happened a long time ago That's what made Datadog, and they think of it as the platform. that's what made datadog and they think of it as the platform
Speaker 2: I want to touch a little bit about security. $100+ million business. It's been out there for two plus, three, four years? Three, four, couple years now. Maybe for those that are a little bit unfamiliar with security, tell us about your security journey, what you're doing on the product side. Maybe more importantly, what are you doing on the go-to-market side with security? I want to touch a little bit about security. $100+ million business. i want to touch a little bit about security $100+ million business It's been out there for two plus, three, four years? it's been out there for two plus three four years Three, four, couple years now. three four couple years now Maybe for those that are a little bit unfamiliar with security, tell us about your security journey, what you're doing on the product side. maybe for those that are a little bit unfamiliar with security tell us about your security journey what you're doing on the product side Maybe more importantly, what are you doing on the go-to-market side with security? maybe more importantly what are you doing on the go-to-market side with security
Speaker 1: That's a very good thing. First of all, you have to say what security. Okay, these are the things we're not in. Endpoint security, there's some really good companies. We're not in network security. We're not in email security. What we're in is Cloud Security. Cloud Security has three components. It has how the cloud's working, it's called Posture Management, and set up to secure digital applications. Two is Cloud SIEM. How are you using logs and other information to investigate what's happening? Three is Code Security. How are you engineering security into the code? Not on premise, not legacy, but for cloud applications, we've built this suite of the three products. I would say the one that we probably made the most progress on is Cloud SIEM. That's a very good thing. that's a very good thing First of all, you have to say what security. first of all you have to say what security Okay, these are the things we're not in. okay these are the things we're not in Endpoint security, there's some really good companies. endpoint security there's some really good companies We're not in network security. we're not in network security We're not in email security. we're not in email security What we're in is Cloud Security. what we're in is cloud security Cloud Security has three components. cloud security has three components It has how the cloud's working, it's called Posture Management, and set up to secure digital applications. it has how the cloud's working it's called posture management and set up to secure digital applications Two is Cloud SIEM. two is cloud siem How are you using logs and other information to investigate what's happening? how are you using logs and other information to investigate what's happening Three is Code Security. three is code security How are you engineering security into the code? how are you engineering security into the code Not on premise, not legacy, but for cloud applications, we've built this suite of the three products. not on premise not legacy but for cloud applications we've built this suite of the three products I would say the one that we probably made the most progress on is Cloud SIEM. i would say the one that we probably made the most progress on is cloud siem Some of the reasons are it's off of our logs business, and we have an over $1 billion log business. We have a great largest observability logs, and the end market has dynamics where we've been an innovator in it. We've had two major strategies. One is attach the whole suite to cloud-native emerging companies, and two is attach Cloud SIEM to more traditional companies where we have a strong observability logs. That's been the strategy, and it's working. That's the product strategy. In terms of go to market, particularly for enterprises, it's a different go to market in that, one, you have the influence of a buyer that is not a traditional buyer, the CISO. And even though they're getting closer together, that is a different buyer than DevOps. Some of the reasons are it's off of our logs business, and we have an over $1 billion log business. some of the reasons are it's off of our logs business and we have an over $1 billion log business We have a great largest observability logs, and the end market has dynamics where we've been an innovator in it. we have a great largest observability logs and the end market has dynamics where we've been an innovator in it We've had two major strategies. we've had two major strategies One is attach the whole suite to cloud-native emerging companies, and two is attach Cloud SIEM to more traditional companies where we have a strong observability logs. one is attach the whole suite to cloud-native emerging companies and two is attach cloud siem to more traditional companies where we have a strong observability logs That's been the strategy, and it's working. that's been the strategy and it's working That's the product strategy. that's the product strategy In terms of go to market, particularly for enterprises, it's a different go to market in that, one, you have the influence of a buyer that is not a traditional buyer, the CISO. And even though they're getting closer together, that is a different buyer than DevOps. in terms of go to market particularly for enterprises it's a different go to market in that one you have the influence of a buyer that is not a traditional buyer the ciso. and even though they're getting closer together that is a different buyer than devops For some reason, I don't know, I'm too young, but for some reason, there was a bottoms-up distribution that facilitated direct in DevOps. Security has been highly centralized, and the CISO has the grip on it. It's a different buyer who buys through channels. What we've been doing is we've been working on selling our direct to our champions, but also investing in product experts or specialty salespeople who are going to try to penetrate CISOs and others and channels, where we have a channel program like the other security companies. It's still early. It wasn't our DNA, but we're investing behind it as part of the overall security investment. For some reason, I don't know, I'm too young, but for some reason, there was a bottoms-up distribution that facilitated direct in DevOps. for some reason i don't know i'm too young but for some reason there was a bottoms-up distribution that facilitated direct in devops Security has been highly centralized, and the CISO has the grip on it. security has been highly centralized and the ciso has the grip on it It's a different buyer who buys through channels. it's a different buyer who buys through channels What we've been doing is we've been working on selling our direct to our champions, but also investing in product experts or specialty salespeople who are going to try to penetrate CISOs and others and channels, where we have a channel program like the other security companies. what we've been doing is we've been working on selling our direct to our champions but also investing in product experts or specialty salespeople who are going to try to penetrate cisos and others and channels where we have a channel program like the other security companies It's still early. it's still early It wasn't our DNA, but we're investing behind it as part of the overall security investment. it wasn't our dna but we're investing behind it as part of the overall security investment
Speaker 2: One thing that we've heard over and over from customers and partners is. I'm the observability buyer. That guy's the security buyer. Is that how it's always going to be in your view, or do you think one day that might converge? One thing that we've heard over and over from customers and partners is. one thing that we've heard over and over from customers and partners is I'm the observability buyer. i'm the observability buyer That guy's the security buyer. that guy's the security buyer Is that how it's always going to be in your view, or do you think one day that might converge? is that how it's always going to be in your view or do you think one day that might converge
Speaker 1: We think the whole strategy is that it makes no sense. There's certainly territorialism. Essentially, if I were up here, you would say it's idiotic not to design security into applications and to have all this come through. DevSecOps, we have seen signs, and we believe it will come closer and closer together. A thing that we think will accelerate that is agentic coding because that's going to speed up everything, and it's going to require everyone to work together. Even though you're right, there are these separate buying groups. We're seeing signs of them coming together, and we believe in the future, since we believe that businesses are in the end logical, that they will come together. If we can use the gains in technology from agentic content of detection of penetration remediation, that will most likely help us in our attempt to scale security. We think the whole strategy is that it makes no sense. we think the whole strategy is that it makes no sense There's certainly territorialism. there's certainly territorialism Essentially, if I were up here, you would say it's idiotic not to design security into applications and to have all this come through. essentially if i were up here you would say it's idiotic not to design security into applications and to have all this come through DevSecOps, we have seen signs, and we believe it will come closer and closer together. devsecops we have seen signs and we believe it will come closer and closer together A thing that we think will accelerate that is agentic coding because that's going to speed up everything, and it's going to require everyone to work together. a thing that we think will accelerate that is agentic coding because that's going to speed up everything and it's going to require everyone to work together Even though you're right, there are these separate buying groups. even though you're right there are these separate buying groups We're seeing signs of them coming together, and we believe in the future, since we believe that businesses are in the end logical, that they will come together. we're seeing signs of them coming together and we believe in the future since we believe that businesses are in the end logical that they will come together If we can use the gains in technology from agentic content of detection of penetration remediation, that will most likely help us in our attempt to scale security. if we can use the gains in technology from agentic content of detection of penetration remediation that will most likely help us in our attempt to scale security
Speaker 2: In that vein, when you say agentic coding, it's getting pushed out. In that vein, when you say agentic coding, it's getting pushed out. in that vein when you say agentic coding it's getting pushed out
Speaker 1: It's getting pressed, yeah. It's getting pressed, yeah. it's getting pressed yeah
Speaker 2: From the software development side, and security has to deal with it. Does that feel like you're beginning to pull in some of the security budget because of where that velocity of coding is coming? From the software development side, and security has to deal with it. from the software development side and security has to deal with it Does that feel like you're beginning to pull in some of the security budget because of where that velocity of coding is coming? does that feel like you're beginning to pull in some of the security budget because of where that velocity of coding is coming
Speaker 1: In cloud-progressive companies, we have been for some time, meaning we have clients where it's like I said, it's all knitted together. You have a whole big world out there, it's a process. I don't know if I can say that in the last six months, we would see a sea change. We think it's an evolution, and we believe it's going to happen. It's going to happen over time. In cloud-progressive companies, we have been for some time, meaning we have clients where it's like I said, it's all knitted together. in cloud-progressive companies we have been for some time meaning we have clients where it's like i said it's all knitted together You have a whole big world out there, it's a process. you have a whole big world out there it's a process I don't know if I can say that in the last six months, we would see a sea change. i don't know if i can say that in the last six months we would see a sea change We think it's an evolution, and we believe it's going to happen. we think it's an evolution and we believe it's going to happen It's going to happen over time. it's going to happen over time
Speaker 2: Yeah. You guys are highly successful with cloud-native companies and cloud-native strategies. At your investor day, you talked about Cloud Prem, a product that you have. Can you tell us a little bit about Cloud Prem? What's the strategy there, and how are you leaning into go to market with that product? Yeah. yeah You guys are highly successful with cloud-native companies and cloud-native strategies. you guys are highly successful with cloud-native companies and cloud-native strategies At your investor day, you talked about Cloud Prem, a product that you have. at your investor day you talked about cloud prem a product that you have Can you tell us a little bit about Cloud Prem? can you tell us a little bit about cloud prem What's the strategy there, and how are you leaning into go to market with that product? what's the strategy there and how are you leaning into go to market with that product
Speaker 1: Essentially, we're leaning into it and go to market in the same way, meaning that if a client would find utility or a cost benefit from having data kept in there on their own servers, we want to have a product. So far it's been that we have the analytics, or we have the log, and you keep the data. We also have products that allow the data to get in in an efficient way, Observability Pipelines. That's what we're doing. Now, we're investing behind it. We have customers that want it, and we've been successful. It still hasn't been the vast majority of the way our customers want to buy. What we're working towards is indifference, meaning that if you want to keep the data, great. If you want to give us the data, great. Essentially, we're leaning into it and go to market in the same way, meaning that if a client would find utility or a cost benefit from having data kept in there on their own servers, we want to have a product. essentially we're leaning into it and go to market in the same way meaning that if a client would find utility or a cost benefit from having data kept in there on their own servers we want to have a product So far it's been that we have the analytics, or we have the log, and you keep the data. so far it's been that we have the analytics or we have the log and you keep the data We also have products that allow the data to get in in an efficient way, Observability Pipelines. we also have products that allow the data to get in in an efficient way observability pipelines That's what we're doing. that's what we're doing Now, we're investing behind it. now we're investing behind it We have customers that want it, and we've been successful. we have customers that want it and we've been successful It still hasn't been the vast majority of the way our customers want to buy. it still hasn't been the vast majority of the way our customers want to buy What we're working towards is indifference, meaning that if you want to keep the data, great. what we're working towards is indifference meaning that if you want to keep the data great If you want to give us the data, great. if you want to give us the data great If you want to have all the functionality go over to your side. That's taking time to get complete product parity where we have exact functionality. That's taking time, and that's what Cloud Prem means. We're working on that. That's mainly for the first use case logs. If you want to have all the functionality go over to your side. if you want to have all the functionality go over to your side That's taking time to get complete product parity where we have exact functionality. that's taking time to get complete product parity where we have exact functionality That's taking time, and that's what Cloud Prem means. that's taking time and that's what cloud prem means We're working on that. we're working on that That's mainly for the first use case logs. that's mainly for the first use case logs
Speaker 2: I got you. Wanted to ask you a question on durability of growth. You guys have great growth trends, and so how do we think about the drivers of the durability of growth, whether that's cloud migration, platform consolidation, and AI? What signals are you guys seeing that's giving you the confidence that growth continues in the fashion it has? I got you. i got you Wanted to ask you a question on durability of growth. wanted to ask you a question on durability of growth You guys have great growth trends, and so how do we think about the drivers of the durability of growth, whether that's cloud migration, platform consolidation, and AI? you guys have great growth trends and so how do we think about the drivers of the durability of growth whether that's cloud migration platform consolidation and ai What signals are you guys seeing that's giving you the confidence that growth continues in the fashion it has? what signals are you guys seeing that's giving you the confidence that growth continues in the fashion it has
Speaker 1: Well, the durability depends on what your timeframe is, okay? We always have believed, and we're seeing that this is a very long-time investment cycle because such a high percentage of applications and infrastructure are still in legacy technologies. We've always said that if you want to look at this is a secular trend, and it can be cyclical, but it's also secular, and it's got a lot. You have 70%+ of workloads that aren't in the cloud. We believe this has very long legs. In terms of, is it going to be a straight line, meaning on every month, is it going to have the exact same thing? We don't know. It's likely, if proven, you're going to have periods of investment. You may have periods of optimization. It's cloud software. It's consumption cloud software. Well, the durability depends on what your timeframe is, okay? well the durability depends on what your timeframe is okay We always have believed, and we're seeing that this is a very long-time investment cycle because such a high percentage of applications and infrastructure are still in legacy technologies. we always have believed and we're seeing that this is a very long-time investment cycle because such a high percentage of applications and infrastructure are still in legacy technologies We've always said that if you want to look at this is a secular trend, and it can be cyclical, but it's also secular, and it's got a lot. we've always said that if you want to look at this is a secular trend and it can be cyclical but it's also secular and it's got a lot You have 70%+ of workloads that aren't in the cloud. you have 70%+ of workloads that aren't in the cloud We believe this has very long legs. we believe this has very long legs In terms of, is it going to be a straight line, meaning on every month, is it going to have the exact same thing? in terms of is it going to be a straight line meaning on every month is it going to have the exact same thing We don't know. we don't know It's likely, if proven, you're going to have periods of investment. it's likely if proven you're going to have periods of investment You may have periods of optimization. you may have periods of optimization It's cloud software. it's cloud software It's consumption cloud software. it's consumption cloud software We can't predict exactly what the line's going to be in every moment, but we have confidence that it's very durable, and it's very long because we're attached to huge market drivers. We also, if history repeats itself, we found that new technologies, of which AI is happening, is a huge accelerant of this conversion. Again, it's still too early, but if history repeats itself, that is likely to inflect the line upward faster to get to the same place 25, 50 years out. We can't predict exactly what the line's going to be in every moment, but we have confidence that it's very durable, and it's very long because we're attached to huge market drivers. we can't predict exactly what the line's going to be in every moment but we have confidence that it's very durable and it's very long because we're attached to huge market drivers We also, if history repeats itself, we found that new technologies, of which AI is happening, is a huge accelerant of this conversion. we also if history repeats itself we found that new technologies of which ai is happening is a huge accelerant of this conversion Again, it's still too early, but if history repeats itself, that is likely to inflect the line upward faster to get to the same place 25, 50 years out. again it's still too early but if history repeats itself that is likely to inflect the line upward faster to get to the same place 25 50 years out
Speaker 2: Yep. That makes sense. I wanted to ask you a question on how Datadog thinks about product velocity and R&D investment. Frankly, your guys' own use of. AI within the organization. You mentioned, I think we talked about it yesterday, you got about 4,000 developers within the organization. How do you think about leveraging AI and investment? Yep. yep That makes sense. that makes sense I wanted to ask you a question on how Datadog thinks about product velocity and R&D investment. i wanted to ask you a question on how datadog thinks about product velocity and r&d investment Frankly, your guys' own use of. frankly your guys' own use of AI within the organization. ai within the organization You mentioned, I think we talked about it yesterday, you got about 4,000 developers within the organization. How do you think a bout leveraging AI and investment? you mentioned i think we talked about it yesterday you got about 4,000 developers within the organization. how do you think a bout leveraging ai and investment
Speaker 1: Yeah. To step back, we've always been a product-led company. We've been out investing. We've been spending over $1 billion in R&D. That's had tremendous benefit, meaning it's allowed us to invest in the platform and scale and the functionality. We also have our company that has no shortage of things, of functionality that we want to roll out. That's been epicenter to Datadog. Out-invest everyone in R&D, look at the pipeline of what we want to put in the market, at a profitable price, and creating value for clients, and just look at your R&D resources against that. That's been what Datadog has done. What about coding agents and agentic coding? That is essentially another piece of raw material that we are using to try to accelerate the launch of features, where we're not, what do you call it? Token maxing, what's it called? Yeah. yeah To step back, we've always been a product-led company. to step back we've always been a product-led company We've been out investing. we've been out investing We've been spending over $1 billion in R&D. we've been spending over $1 billion in r&d That's had tremendous benefit, meaning it's allowed us to invest in the platform and scale and the functionality. that's had tremendous benefit meaning it's allowed us to invest in the platform and scale and the functionality We also have our company that has no shortage of things, of functionality that we want to roll out. we also have our company that has no shortage of things of functionality that we want to roll out That's been epicenter to Datadog. that's been epicenter to datadog Out-invest everyone in R&D, look at the pipeline of what we want to put in the market, at a profitable price, and creating value for clients, and just look at your R&D resources against that. out-invest everyone in r&d look at the pipeline of what we want to put in the market at a profitable price and creating value for clients and just look at your r&d resources against that That's been what Datadog has done. that's been what datadog has done What about coding agents and agentic coding? what about coding agents and agentic coding That is essentially another piece of raw material that we are using to try to accelerate the launch of features, where we're not, what do you call it? that is essentially another piece of raw material that we are using to try to accelerate the launch of features where we're not what do you call it Token maxing, what's it called? token maxing what's it called Agent maxing, what's the token maxing? Agent maxing, what's the token maxing? agent maxing what's the token maxing
Speaker 2: Token maxing. Token maxing. token maxing
Speaker 1: We're not token maxers. We've never paid anybody, rewarded anybody on the number of lines. We basically think about products, so it's all product. All those software developers we call product people. Essentially to the extent we can become more efficient in speeding up feature release, it's good for us. We're finding that. We're basically experimenting around the interplay within that envelope on R&D between tokens and people. We have a lot of experiments. We have places where we have, keep the people, let's see how fast you are with less tokens. No. Constrain the people, let's see how fast you get. We're pretty nerdy engineering wonky, so we have all this stuff going on, and we're trying to see what's going to happen. We believe that the componentry of R&D will shift somewhat. We're not token maxers. we're not token maxers We've never paid anybody, rewarded anybody on the number of lines. we've never paid anybody rewarded anybody on the number of lines We basically think about products, so it's all product. we basically think about products so it's all product All those software developers we call product people. all those software developers we call product people Essentially to the extent we can become more efficient in speeding up feature release, it's good for us. essentially to the extent we can become more efficient in speeding up feature release it's good for us We're finding that. we're finding that We're basically experimenting around the interplay within that envelope on R&D between tokens and people. we're basically experimenting around the interplay within that envelope on r&d between tokens and people We have a lot of experiments. we have a lot of experiments We have places where we have, keep the people, let's see how fast you are with less tokens. we have places where we have keep the people let's see how fast you are with less tokens No. no Constrain the people, let's see how fast you get. constrain the people let's see how fast you get We're pretty nerdy engineering wonky, so we have all this stuff going on, and we're trying to see what's going to happen. we're pretty nerdy engineering wonky so we have all this stuff going on and we're trying to see what's going to happen We believe that the componentry of R&D will shift somewhat. we believe that the componentry of r&d will shift somewhat We don't know exactly, to tokens from people, but we don't know the exact amount. We don't know exactly, to tokens from people, but we don't know the exact amount. we don't know exactly to tokens from people but we don't know the exact amount
Speaker 2: Have you been able to use AI internally, with all that development that you have to help out with your own homegrown solutions in sales and marketing and G&A at all? Have you been able to use AI internally, with all that development that you have to help out with your own homegrown solutions in sales and marketing and G&A at all? have you been able to use ai internally with all that development that you have to help out with your own homegrown solutions in sales and marketing and g&a at all
Speaker 1: AI, there's three or four major use cases. One, in the product itself. We talked about the models in the product. Those would be components of the product. Two is accelerate product release through software coding tools. Three would be use AI for productivity of the employees. Four would be what you're talking about. Are we able to use large language models or AI to improve the productivity and the effectiveness of the different functions? Yes, there's many, many examples. We're using AI to automate the creation of deals and the processing of deals, to enable our salespeople and our market people to understand propensity to buy and direct our salespeople in places that have a higher chance of success. We have all of those. I'm not going to list all the names, but there's lots of them like that. AI, there's three or four major use cases. ai there's three or four major use cases One, in the product itself. one in the product itself We talked about t he models in the product. we talked about t he models in the product Those would be components of the product. those would be components of the product Two is accelerate product release through software coding tools. two is accelerate product release through software coding tools Three would be use AI for productivity of the employees. three would be use ai for productivity of the employees Four would be what you're talking about. four would be what you're talking about Are we able to use large language models or AI to improve the productivity and the effectiveness of the different functions? are we able to use large language models or ai to improve the productivity and the effectiveness of the different functions Yes, there's many, many examples. yes there's many many examples We're using AI to automate the creation of deals and the processing of deals, to enable our salespeople and our market people to understand propensity to buy and direct our salespeople in places that have a higher chance of success. we're using ai to automate the creation of deals and the processing of deals to enable our salespeople and our market people to understand propensity to buy and direct our salespeople in places that have a higher chance of success We have all of those. we have all of those I'm not going to list all the names, but there's lots of them like that. i'm not going to list all the names but there's lots of them like that How do we enable salespeople in product training and things like that? How do we speed up all of the back office functions, whether it be legal, accounting, cash cycle, marketing collateral, all of that. Yes, we have experiments or projects going on in many areas to try to do that. What we're really thinking about mainly is how can we convert repetitive administrative tasks towards more insights so that we can act faster and inflect the business. We have all that going on, too. How do we enable salespeople in product training and things like that? how do we enable salespeople in product training and things like that How do we speed up all of the back office functions, whether it be legal, accounting, cash cycle, marketing collateral, all of that. how do we speed up all of the back office functions whether it be legal accounting cash cycle marketing collateral all of that Yes, we have experiments or projects going on in many areas to try to do that. yes we have experiments or projects going on in many areas to try to do that What we're really thinking about mainly is how can we convert repetitive administrative tasks towards more insights so that we can act faster and inflect the business. what we're really thinking about mainly is how can we convert repetitive administrative tasks towards more insights so that we can act faster and inflect the business We have all that going on, too. we have all that going on too
Speaker 2: Wow. Wow. wow
Speaker 1: Yeah. Again, it's not token. Basically, you've got to produce something from this. We have a lot of opportunity. Yeah. yeah Again, it's not token. again it's not token Basically, you've got to produce something from this. basically you've got to produce something from this We have a lot of opportunity. we have a lot of opportunity
Speaker 2: Remind us, what is the investment strategy in sales and marketing for you? How do we think about that? Remind us, what is the investment strategy in sales and marketing for you? remind us what is the investment strategy in sales and marketing for you How do we think about that? how do we think about that
Speaker 1: Yeah. The investment strategy in sales and marketing is bottoms up to be able to cover the high potential customers around the world. It has to do with investment in enterprise all the way up, government and enterprise, the biggest entities all the way down to startups to be able to cover them comprehensively and to be able to get lead gens from them, et cetera. It has to do with geographic expansion. Like many U.S. companies, we were most developed and followed where the investment in cloud software was most intense was the U.S. We're finding many areas with great payback, Brazil, Korea, India, et cetera, where we did not have on the ground presence. We're developing packages of salespeople, sales engineers, marketing dollars, maybe even data centers to be able to do that. That's sort of where it is. Yeah. yeah The investment strategy in sales and marketing is bottoms up to be able to cover the high potential customers around the world. the investment strategy in sales and marketing is bottoms up to be able to cover the high potential customers around the world It has to do with investment in enterprise all the way up, government and enterprise, the biggest entities all the way down to startups to be able to cover them comprehensively and to be able to get lead gens from them, et cetera. it has to do with investment in enterprise all the way up government and enterprise the biggest entities all the way down to startups to be able to cover them comprehensively and to be able to get lead gens from them et cetera It has to do with geographic expansion. it has to do with geographic expansion Like many U.S. companies, we were most developed and followed where the investment in cloud software was most intense was the U.S. like many u.s companies we were most developed and followed where the investment in cloud software was most intense was the u.s We're finding many areas with great payback, Brazil, Korea, India, et cetera, where we did not have on the ground presence. we're finding many areas with great payback brazil korea india et cetera where we did not have on the ground presence We're developing packages of salespeople, sales engineers, marketing dollars, maybe even data centers to be able to do that. we're developing packages of salespeople sales engineers marketing dollars maybe even data centers to be able to do that That's sort of where it is. that's sort of where it is The ways you reach customers direct and then also channel, we're expanding. It's a bottoms-up business plan aimed at that micro level and how we can reach the broadest swath of customers around the world. The ways you reach customers direct and then also channel, we're expanding. the ways you reach customers direct and then also channel we're expanding It's a bottoms-up business plan aimed at that micro level and how we can reach the broadest swath of customers around the world. it's a bottoms-up business plan aimed at that micro level and how we can reach the broadest swath of customers around the world
Speaker 2: I got you. I got you. i got you
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. yeah
Speaker 2: I know we're running up on time here. M&A strategy. I know we're running up on time here. i know we're running up on time here M&A strategy. m&a strategy
Speaker 1: Uh-huh. Yeah. Uh-huh. uh-huh Yeah. yeah
Speaker 2: You guys are not afraid to go out there and acquire things. How are you thinking about your M&A strategy? Any changes in what you've done in the past, and how do we think about that going forward? You guys are not afraid to go out there and acquire things. you guys are not afraid to go out there and acquire things How are you thinking about your M&A strategy? how are you thinking about your m&a strategy Any changes in w hat you've done in the past, and how do we think about that going forward? any changes in w hat you've done in the past and how do we think about that going forward
Speaker 1: Yeah. Think we've basically, to date, not acquired streams of revenue, but acquiring product capabilities and the people, and we continue to do that. When you think about building product, we often build product, and then we can enhance that through acquiring a product capability. That's the epicenter of what we do, and if there's opportunities, we'll continue to do that. In addition, I think we're open to something that's bigger, where we do acquire some customers as well, but that'll really be dependent on can we integrate it in and can we accelerate? Does that help us? We're pretty principled on that. One of the things we really insist on is that the R&D teams and the product teams stay at Datadog. That means for certain companies, sell, move. We don't want that. Yeah. yeah Think we've basically, to date, not acquired streams of revenue, but acquiring product capabilities and the people, and we continue to do that. think we've basically to date not acquired streams of revenue but acquiring product capabilities and the people and we continue to do that When you think about building product, we often build product, and then we can enhance that through acquiring a product capability. when you think about building product we often build product and then we can enhance that through acquiring a product capability That's the epicenter of what we do, and if there's opportunities, we'll continue to do that. that's the epicenter of what we do and if there's opportunities we'll continue to do that In addition, I think we're open to something that's bigger, where we do acquire some customers as well, but that'll really be dependent on can we integrate it in and can we accelerate? in addition i think we're open to something that's bigger where we do acquire some customers as well but that'll really be dependent on can we integrate it in and can we accelerate Does that help us? does that help us We're pretty principled on that. we're pretty principled on that One of the things we really insist on is that the R&D teams and the product teams stay at Datadog. one of the things we really insist on is that the r&d teams and the product teams stay at datadog That means for certain companies, sell, move. that means for certain companies sell move We don't want that. we don't want that We make it in the incentive structure, so we only acquire companies where they want to stay. That's sort of what we've been doing. It's been very successful. We've created some very big businesses through that with not that big acquisitions, and I think that's the core, with the reservation that we could look bigger to the extent it fits in in our disciplined way. We make it in the incentive structure, so we only acquire companies where they want to stay. we make it in the incentive structure so we only acquire companies where they want to stay That's sort of what we've been doing. that's sort of what we've been doing It's been very successful. it's been very successful We've created some very big businesses through that with not that big acquisitions, and I think that's the core, with the reservation that we could look bigger to the extent it fits in in our disciplined way. we've created some very big businesses through that with not that big acquisitions and i think that's the core with the reservation that we could look bigger to the extent it fits in in our disciplined way
Speaker 2: I gotcha. I gotcha. i gotcha
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. yeah
Speaker 2: Last question for you, David. Thanks so much for doing this. Last question for you, David. last question for you david Thanks so much for doing this. thanks so much for doing this
Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. thank you
Speaker 2: Yeah. You got DASH next week. Yeah. yeah You got DASH next week. you got dash next week
Speaker 1: We got DASH next week. We got DASH next week. we got dash next week
Speaker 2: We'll try and get a little bit out of you of what, as investors in the room and myself, as I look at the schedule, is there anything I should be focusing on just to make sure I don't miss anything big coming out next week? We'll try and get a little bit out of you of what, as investors in the room and myself, as I look at the schedule, is there anything I should be focusing on just to make sure I don't miss anything big coming out next week? we'll try and get a little bit out of you of what as investors in the room and myself as i look at the schedule is there anything i should be focusing on just to make sure i don't miss anything big coming out next week
Speaker 1: Well, as background, DASH is a place where we make a lot of product releases. We do product strategy. It's for users. I think you're going to get a pretty good roadmap. If you look at who's speaking and everything, I think you'll see it's going to have, no surprise, a lot of AI content. Some of the things that we're discussing here, the AI for Datadog for AI, coding, all that, I think will be fleshed out a bit more at DASH next week. Well, as background, DASH is a place where we make a lot of product releases. well as background dash is a place where we make a lot of product releases We do product strategy. we do product strategy It's for users. it's for users I think you're going to get a pretty good roadmap. i think you're going to get a pretty good roadmap If you look at who's speaking and everything, I think you'll see it's going to have, no surprise, a lot of AI content. if you look at who's speaking and everything i think you'll see it's going to have no surprise a lot of ai content Some of the things that we're discussing here, the AI for Datadog for AI, coding, all that, I think will be fleshed out a bit more at DASH next week. some of the things that we're discussing here the ai for datadog for ai coding all that i think will be fleshed out a bit more at dash next week
Speaker 2: Got it. Got it. got it
Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. thank you
Speaker 2: We're all out of time. We're all out of time. we're all out of time
Speaker 1: Yep. Yep. yep
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, David. Thank you so much, David. thank you so much david
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot. Thanks a lot. thanks a lot
Speaker 2: It was fun. Thank you. It was fun. it was fun Thank you. thank you
Speaker 1: Thanks. Thank you. Good interview. Thanks. thanks Thank you. thank you Good interview. good interview