Match monitoring depth to workload needs with Infrastructure Basic

Datadog Infrastructure Basic is a lightweight monitoring tier for noncritical workloads that need visibility into host availability, core resource usage, and selected processes without application-level instrumentation. It collects metrics including CPU, memory, disk utilization and I/O, network activity, uptime, and system load, while supporting configurable process checks, prebuilt dashboards, alerts, 15 months of full-resolution data retention, and integrations with tools such as ServiceNow and PagerDuty. Organizations can use Infrastructure Basic alongside Datadog Infrastructure Monitoring Pro or Enterprise in the same account, enabling shared dashboards and queries across hosts with different observability needs. The offering uses the same Datadog Agent as other host-based tiers but restricts collection in basic mode, and it is intended for systems such as development VMs, physical servers, and legacy applications rather than workloads requiring container monitoring, broader process insight, specialized integrations, or application-level telemetry.

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