| APM | Error Tracking | APM spans (unsampled) | 2 minutes | 60 seconds | 15 days |
| APM | Indexed spans (unsampled) | Datadog Agent + tracing library | 10 seconds | 1 millisecond | Plan |
| APM | Profiles | Datadog Agent + tracing library | 60 seconds | 60 seconds | 7 days |
| APM | Profile metrics | Datadog Agent + tracing library | 60 seconds | 60 seconds | 1 month |
| APM | Services/resources statistics and span summaries | Datadog Agent + tracing library | 10 seconds | 10 seconds | 30 days |
| APM | Traces (sampled) | Datadog Agent + tracing library | 10 seconds | 1 millisecond | 30 days. Viewed traces are retained long-term. See Trace Storage for details. |
| APM | Trace metrics (unsampled) | Datadog Agent + tracing library | 10 seconds | 1 second | 15 months |
| ASM | Suspicious requests | Datadog Agent + tracing library | 10 seconds | 1 millisecond | 90 days. Underlying traces kept for 15 days. |
| CI Visibility | Test span | Datadog Agent + tracing library | 60 seconds | 1 millisecond | 90 days. Underlying flamegraph kept for 30 days. |
| CI Visibility | Flaky test | CI Visibility Test spans | Data source-dependent | 1 millisecond | 1 month after the test last flaked |
| CI Visibility | Pipeline span | Webhooks, Datadog Agent + plugin | Data source-dependent | 1 millisecond | 15 months. Underlying flamegraph kept for 30 days. |
| Cloud | Alibaba | API crawler | 10 min (default) | 1 min | 15 months |
| Cloud | AWS | API crawler | 10 min (default) | 1 min | 15 months |
| Cloud | Azure | API crawler | 2 min (default) | 1 min | 15 months |
| Cloud | Google Cloud | API crawler | 5 min (default) | 1 min | 15 months |
| Cloud Cost Management | AWS | Cost and Usage Report | 1 hour | 1 day | 15 months |
| Cloud Cost Management | Azure | Cost Exports | 1 hour | 1 day | 15 months |
| Cloud Cost Management | Google Cloud | Detailed Usage Cost Export | 1 hour | 1 day | 15 months |
| Cloud SIEM | Security Signals | Datadog Cloud SIEM | Real time | 1 millisecond | 15 months |
| Cloud Security Management | Findings | Datadog Cloud Security Management Misconfigurations | 15 minutes to 4 hours depending on resource type | 1 minute | 15 months |
| CSM Threats | Signals | Datadog Cloud Security Management Threats | Real time | 1 ms | 15 months |
| Database Monitoring | Query Metrics | Datadog Agent + enabled integrations | 10 seconds | 1 second | 3 months |
| Database Monitoring | Query Samples | Datadog Agent + enabled integrations | 1 minute | n/a | 15 days |
| Incident Management | Incident Management | Incident data | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Infrastructure | Agent integrations | Datadog Agent + enabled integrations | 15 seconds | 1 second | 15 months |
| Infrastructure | Custom metrics (Agent check) | Datadog Agent + custom Agent check | 15 seconds | 1 second | 15 months |
| Infrastructure | Custom metrics (API) | POST directly to Datadog’s API | Real time | 1 second | 15 months |
| Infrastructure | Custom metrics (StatsD) | Datadog Agent (built-in statsD collector) | 15 seconds | 1 second | 15 months |
| Infrastructure | Events | Datadog Agent, integrations, or API | Real time | 1 second | 15 months |
| Infrastructure | Live containers | Datadog Agent + enabled Docker integration or Datadog container Agent | 2 seconds | 1 second | 36 hours |
| Infrastructure | Live processes | Datadog Agent + Process Agent | 2 seconds | 1 second | 36 hours |
| Infrastructure | Network Performance Monitoring | System Probe | 30 seconds | 1 min | 14 days |
| Infrastructure | System metrics | Datadog Agent | 15 seconds | 1 second | 15 months |
| Logs | Logs | Datadog Agent + Logs, third-party log collectors, or API | Real time | 1 millisecond | Plan |
| Real User Monitoring | Error Tracking | RUM SDK | 2 minutes | 60 seconds | 30 days
View, Error, and User Action events can be extended to 90 days at no cost by reaching out to Support. |
| Real User Monitoring | Real User Monitoring | RUM SDK | Real time | 1 millisecond | 30 days for Session, View, Action, and Error events
15 days for resource and long task events. |
| Real User Monitoring | Session Replays | RUM SDK | Real time | 1 millisecond | 30 days |
| Service Management | Workflow Automation | Workflow executions | user configurable | n/a | 30 days for workflow instance input data and output data |
| Service Management | Service Level Objectives | Datadog monitors, Datadog Synthetic monitoring, or metrics (infrastructure, APM trace, custom) | Data source-dependent | Data source-dependent | 3 months for Monitor-based SLOs, matches metric retention duration for Metric-based and Time Slice SLOs (15 months by default) |
| Synthetic Monitoring | API Test metrics | Datadog Synthetic Monitoring application | User-defined | 1 min | 15 months |
| Synthetic Monitoring | API Test results | Datadog Synthetic Monitoring application | User-defined | 1 min | Result seen in the UI by user: 15 months
Result not seen in the UI by user: 2 months |
| Synthetic Monitoring | Browser Test metrics | Datadog Synthetic Monitoring application | User-defined | 5 min | 15 months |
| Synthetic Monitoring | Browser Test results | Datadog Synthetic Monitoring application | User-defined | 5 min | Result seen in the UI by user: 15 months
Result not seen in the UI by user: 2 months |
| Synthetic Monitoring | Batches | Datadog Synthetic Monitoring application (through calls to the Synthetics trigger API endpoint or to the Synthetics CI CLI) | Depending on calls to the Synthetics trigger API endpoint or to the Synthetic CI CLI | n/a | 15 days |
| USM | RED metrics | Datadog Agent | 30 seconds | 30 second | 15 months |
