Datadog (DDOG) has faced intense scrutiny regarding its vulnerability to hyperscaler competition. The bear case is well understood. Major cloud providers like Amazon (AMZN) and Alphabet (GOOGL) are actively bundling native observability tools into their core platforms, threatening to commoditize basic monitoring. At the same time, Datadog relies on a usage-based pricing model, which has prompted aggressive customer cost optimization and seat compression in a tighter macroeconomic environment. Th