Datadog Network Monitoring review

Datadog makes the most sense when the network team shares a platform with developers and SREs. Network Device Monitoring collects SNMP metrics, SNMP traps, API data, NetFlow and syslog from on-premises, SD-WAN and wireless devices, and Datadog says it discovers devices from vendors including Cisco, Juniper, Meraki, F5, Arista and Aruba. Admins get out-of-the-box dashboards, automatic topology maps, anomaly alerts and bandwidth forecasting, and flow analysis supports NetFlow v5, v9, IPFIX, sFlow and jFlow. Cloud Network Monitoring traces traffic hop by hop between services, which helps prove whether a slowdown is the network or the app. The list price is $7 per network device per month billed annually, $8.50 month to month. Watch the meter, though: wireless access points are $4 each, NetFlow is billed per million records and cloud network hosts are $5 each, so a full deployment draws on several lines of the bill.

Who it is for

Teams already using Datadog that want to correlate network devices and traffic with servers and applications.

Price

Network Device Monitoring from $7 per device per month billed annually, $8.50 month to month.

Network Device Monitoring Per network device, per month Per network device, per month $ 7
Quoted from the vendor pricing page on November 9, 2026.

Key features

• Device monitoring through SNMP metrics, SNMP traps, APIs, NetFlow and syslog
• Automatic discovery across vendors such as Cisco, Juniper, Meraki, Arista and Aruba
• Automatic device topology maps
• NetFlow v5, v9, IPFIX, sFlow and jFlow traffic analysis
• Bandwidth forecasting and anomaly alerts

Strengths and weaknesses

• Strength: Network data sits next to infrastructure and application data in one platform
• Strength: Clear per-device list price
• Strength: 14-day trial of the full product suite
• Weakness: NetFlow, wireless access points and cloud network monitoring are billed separately
• Weakness: Costs climb as you add other Datadog products
• Weakness: SaaS only, so data leaves your network

Key facts

• Device monitoring: $7 per device per month, annual
• Wireless APs: $4 per device per month, annual
• Cloud Network Monitoring: $5 per network host per month, annual
• Free trial: 14 days

Where it ranks

Datadog Network Monitoring is No. 6 in our Best Network Monitoring Tools verdict.