Today, I'm thrilled to announce that Metaplane has been acquired by Datadog.

When we started Metaplane in 2019, we had one simple belief: companies deserve to trust their data. But we saw data teams being the last to know about issues, usually from a frustrated Slack message about a broken dashboard.

We built Metaplane to flip the script. To help data teams be the first to know, the first to act, and the first to build trust.

Why Datadog?

As data has become central to business operations and AI initiatives, the stakes for data quality have skyrocketed. Poor data quality costs organizations millions annually, with impacts ranging from catastrophic business decisions to broken data and AI products for customers. Yet observability tools for data teams have remained disconnected from those used by software teams, creating blind spots exactly where they hurt most.

Data observability shouldn’t live in a silo. The root cause of a data issue is often upstream, like an edge case in a database migration, an API failure, or a misconfigured pipeline. But the teams making those changes aren’t to blame. They themselves often lack awareness of how software changes impact downstream data systems. Our customers told us over and over that making data observability successful requires connecting the dots across software and data.

By joining forces with Datadog, we're breaking down these silos. Together, we're creating the first observability platform that unifies infrastructure, application, and data monitoring, giving teams visibility across the entire data lifecycle, from upstream production to transformation to downstream consumption.

If you've ever wished there were a "Datadog for data," we have good news: it turns out that Datadog is the Datadog for data.

What Happens Next?

For Metaplane customers: Your experience stays the same for now. Metaplane will continue as a standalone product as "Metaplane by Datadog." All features, support, and services continue uninterrupted.

We'll be working towards a unified vision for Metaplane and Datadog: a single source of observability across both software and data. This will connect data quality directly to its upstream sources using products like Data Streams Monitoring, Data Jobs Monitoring, and Application Performance Monitoring, giving teams the complete picture they need to be proactive.

The benefits of this acquisition will unfold over time as we combine Metaplane's data observability expertise with Datadog's industry-leading platform and resources. We're excited about what this means for our customers and the broader data community.

This isn’t just about adding Metaplane to Datadog. It’s about redefining what data observability means to deliver what actually matters: detecting, resolving, and preventing any data issue, anywhere in your stack, to ensure trust in data across your entire company.

Our Journey Together

This acquisition is the next logical step in our mission. After raising $22.2M and growing our customer base to include companies like Ramp, Sotheby’s, and Bose, joining Datadog allows us to bring data observability to 30,000+ existing Datadog customers and beyond, while empowering data teams with the same best practices and tooling that software teams have enjoyed for years.

To the hundreds of teams that trusted us with your data, thank you.

To our investors at Y Combinator, Flybridge, Khosla Ventures, Felicis, Stage 2 Capital, Kevin Mahaffey, and others who believed in our vision, thank you.

To our partners in the data ecosystem like Snowflake, Sigma, and dbt who collaborated with us to push the boundaries of what's possible, thank you.

To our new teammates at Datadog: thank you for the trust, we’re excited to learn from and work with you to make data observability a default.

And most importantly, to the Metaplane team, whose dedication, creativity, and relentless focus on customer success made all of this possible, thank you.

Looking Ahead

Our mission remains the same: help every company trust their data. Only now, we get to do it at Datadog scale.

The future of observability isn't just about monitoring infrastructure, applications, or data in isolation. It's about unifying these perspectives to provide comprehensive visibility across the entire technology stack. Together with Datadog, we're excited to build that future.

For our existing customers, we're committed to making this transition as smooth as possible. If you have any questions, please reach out to your account representative or to me directly.

Let's go.

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