Find below a summary of Datadog data collection, resolution, and retention:
Source | Collection Methods | Collection interval | Minimum Resolution | Default Retention | Product Category |
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System metrics | Datadog Agent | 15 seconds | 1 second | 15 months | Infrastructure |
Agent integrations | Datadog Agent + enabled integrations | 15 seconds | 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 |
Custom Metrics (Agent check) | Datadog Agent + custom Agent check | 15 seconds | 1 second | 15 months | Infrastructure |
Custom Metrics (StatsD) | Datadog Agent (built-in statsD collector) | 15 seconds | 1 second | 15 months | Infrastructure |
Custom Metrics (API) | POST directly to Datadog’s API | Real time | 1 second | 15 months | Infrastructure |
Events | Datadog Agent, integrations, or API | Real time | 1 second | 13 months | Infrastructure |
Traces (Sampled) | Datadog Agent + tracing library | 10 seconds | 1 millisecond | 15 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 | APM |
Services/Resources statistics & Span Summaries | Datadog Agent + tracing library | 10 seconds | 10 seconds | 30 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 |
Logs | Datadog Agent + Logs, 3rd party log collectors, or API | Real time | 1 millisecond | Plan | Logs |
API Test metrics | Datadog Synthetic Monitoing 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 |
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 | 5 min (default) | 1 min | 15 months | Cloud |
Google Cloud | API crawler | 5 min (default) | 1 min | 15 months | Cloud |
Network Performance Monitoring | System Probe | 5 minutes (default) | 1 min | 7 days | Infrastructure |
Real User Monitoring | RUM SDK | Real time | 1 millisecond | 15 days | Real User Monitoring |
Service Level Objectives | Datadog Monitors, Datadog Synthetic Monitoring, or Metrics (Infrastructure, APM Trace, Custom) | Data source-dependent | Data source-dependent | 7, 30, or 90 days (chosen by user in SLO configuration) | Alerting |
Security Signals | Datadog Security Monitoring | Real time | 1 millisecond | 15 months | Security Monitoring |
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