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Operator
Operator
Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Third Quarter 2025 Datadog Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your first speaker today, Yuka Broderick, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.
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Yuka Broderick
Analyst
Thank you, Martin. Good morning, and thank you for joining us to review Datadog's third quarter 2025 financial results, which we announced in our press release issued this morning. Joining me on the call today are Olivier Pomel, Datadog's Co-Founder and CEO; and David Obstler, Datadog's CFO. During this call, we will make forward-looking statements, including statements related to our future financial performance, our outlook for the fourth quarter and the fiscal year 2025 and related notes and assumptions, our gross margins and operating margins, our product capabilities and our ability to capitalize on market opportunities. The words anticipate, believe, continue, estimate, expect, intend, will and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements or similar indications of future expectations. These statements reflect our views only as of today and are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. For a discussion of the material risks and other important factors that could affect our actual results, please refer to our Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2025. Additional information will be made available in our upcoming Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2025, and other filings with the SEC. This information is also available on the Investor Relations section of our website, along with a replay of this call. We will discuss non-GAAP financial measures, which are reconciled to their most directly comparable GAAP financial measures in the tables in our earnings release, which is available at investors.datadoghq.com. With that, I'd like to turn the call over to Olivier.
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Olivier Pomel
Analyst
Thanks, Yuka, and thank all of you for joining us this morning to go through our results for Q3. Let me begin with this quarter's business drivers. We have seen broad-based positive trends in the demand environment with an ongoing strength of cloud migration and digital transformation. Against this backdrop, we executed a very strong Q3 both in new logo bookings and usage growth of existing customers. As a notable inflection, we saw acceleration of year-over-year revenue growth across our non AI customers. And the sequential usage growth for non-AI existing customers was the highest we have seen going back 12 quarters. This growth was broad-based as our customers are adopting more products and getting more value from the Datadog platform. We also experienced strong revenue growth for our AI native customers and a broadening contribution to growth among those customers. There, too, we saw an acceleration of growth in our AI cohort in Q3 when excluding our largest customer. Looking at new business. Contribution from new customers increased in Q3 in both the amount of new customer bookings as well as the revenue contribution from new customers. And as usual, churn has remained low with gross revenue retention stable in the mid- to high 90s, highlighting the mission-critical nature of our platform for our customers. Regarding our Q3 financial performance and key metrics. Revenue was $886 million, an increase of 28% year-over-year and above the high end of our guidance range. We ended Q3 with about 32,000 customers up from about 29,200 a year ago. We also ended with about 4,060 customers with an ARR of $100,000 more, up from about 3,490 a year ago. These customers generated about 89% of our ARR. And we generated free cash flow of $214 million with a free cash flow margin of…
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David Obstler
Analyst
Thanks, Olivier. To start, our Q3 revenue was $886 million, up 28% year-over-year and up 7% quarter-over-quarter. To dive into some of the drivers of our Q3 revenue growth. First, overall, we saw sequential usage growth from existing customers in Q3 that was higher than our expectations and the strongest in 12 quarters in our non-AI native customer base. We saw year-over-year growth acceleration broadly across our business, including in new logos and existing customers, both enterprise and SMB, with customers across our spending bands, big and small, and customers in a wide variety of industries. Next, we saw strong and accelerating contribution from new customers. New logo annualized bookings more than doubled year-over-year and set a new record driven by an increase in average new logo land size, particularly in enterprise. We believe we are starting to see the benefits of our growth of sales capacity. And we are seeing new logos ramping faster, contributing more to revenue growth. The portion of our year-over-year revenue growth that related to new customers was about 25% in Q3, up from 20% in Q2. Next, our AI native customers continue to exhibit rapid growth, while more customers in this group are growing to be sizable customers. As Olivier discussed, we extended the contract of our largest AI native customer. In addition, we now have more larger AI customers, including 15 of them spending $1 million or more annually with Datadog, and about 100 spending more than $100,000 annually. Year-over-year revenue growth from our AI native customers, excluding the largest customer, again, accelerated in Q3. In Q3, this group represented 12% of our revenue, up from 11% last quarter and about 6% in the year ago quarter. I will note that over time, we think this metric will become less relevant as AI…
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Operator
Operator
[Operator Instructions] Our first comes from the line of Kash Rangan of Goldman Sachs.
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Kasthuri Rangan
Analyst
Appreciate it. Congratulations on the spectacular results and showing sequential improvement across the board. Olivier, I had a question for you. We've talked about GPU monetization versus CPU monetization. So how closer are we to the point where you can confidently expand and get your share of the customer wallet when it comes to whether it's training workload, inferencing workload on the GPU clusters, which are becoming more prevalent and increasingly a larger part of the compute build-out in the future? That's it for me.
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Olivier Pomel
Analyst
Yes. So we have products that are getting into the market now for GPU monitoring. But these don't generate any significant revenue yet. So all the revenues we've shared, like the acceleration, et cetera, that's not related to us capitalizing more on GPUs, that's a future opportunity.
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Operator
Operator
Our next question comes from the line of Sanjit Singh of Morgan Stanley.
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Sanjit Singh
Analyst
Congrats on the acceleration in growth this quarter. Olivier, I wanted to talk about some of those enterprise trends you're seeing in sort of your non-AI cohort. What do you sort of put the improved performance in growth this quarter on? You mentioned that the sales productivity or the benefit from some of the sales investments starting to come online. Is there sort of an uplift in sort of the cloud migration trends as you're starting to see enterprise build more AI applications. I'd just love to get your perspective on the underlying trends in the enterprise and the mid-market business.
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Olivier Pomel
Analyst
Yes. I'd say there's 3 parts to it. One part is the demand environment is not -- is positive in general. I don't know that we see massive acceleration of cloud migration, but at least the environment is not pushing the other way. We know which happens from time to time. So that's point number one. Point number two is we've been growing sales capacity quite a bit, and we've created new go-to-market motions to go after the kind of customers who were not getting before. Like we've done quite a bit of investment over the past couple of years and we see that starting to pay off. As I said also, we feel good about Q4 in terms of pipeline on the sales side. So it's too early to tell yet. We still have to close those deals, but we feel good about the scaling of our go-to-market. And point number three is we have a number of products that we've been developing over the years. Some of them are early, some of them a little bit further along that are really clicking. We see -- we have a lot of success with getting large enterprises to adopt Flex Logs, for example. We have a lot of success in some of new products such as analytics that we mentioned on the call. We're seeing some large land deals with our cloud team. So all of that is contributing to the picture you're seeing today.
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Sanjit Singh
Analyst
And just as a follow-up on the AI observability opportunity. When you look at some of the independent software vendors that are releasing Agentic solutions, Agentic portfolios. A number of them are including observability as part of their sort of value proposition. Is there any work you think Datadog has to do to sort of infiltrate that market or make sure that customers look to Datadog as that Agentic monitoring capability as some of these independent software vendors try to bundle in observability into their solutions. I would love to get your perspective on that?
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Olivier Pomel
Analyst
Yes. I mean there's absolutely no doubt to us that the customers will even want a unified platform for observability for all of this. There's 2 parts to that. One is, historically, every single piece of software we integrate with, whether that's SaaS or things that customers on themselves, also has its own management control and observability control. But you're not going to log into [ 70 ] or in the case of customers we mentioned that they use 60 integrations for the smaller customers, 150 integrations for the larger ones. It's not practical to actually go and manage that separately. So we think all of that belongs in a central place, and that's the historical trend we've seen. We also think that you can't separate the AI parts from the non-AI parts of the business. So you're not going to look at your agents separately that you do at your web hosting and your database and your -- everything else you have in your stack. So all of that in the end will be attached to observability.
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Operator
Operator
Our next question comes from the line of Raimo Lenschow of Barclays.
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Raimo Lenschow
Analyst
Perfect. Congrats from me as well. That sounded like an amazing quarter and nice to see it coming together. On the AI side, and I don't want to talk about the customer, but more the other ones, like 15 customers over 1 million. That's like a big number and 100 over 100,000. How do we have to think about the nature of those? Is this kind of -- are those kind of especially the bigger ones of those kind of model builders, but then even 15 is a big number. And over 100 sounds like this whole new application world that we've all been kind of waiting for starting to come together. Is that kind of what's going on there? Because it does sound quite exciting and much more broader than we thought.
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Olivier Pomel
Analyst
It's actually fairly broad. So there is model vendors, there's models -- model that can be the lens model that can be video, it can be sound generation, it can be all of the various parts of the stack you see as independent companies. It can be -- there's quite a few companies that do that work on the coding side. So coding assistants and vibe coders and everything in that range. Some of these are very new companies. Some of these are not very new companies, some of these started 5, 7, 8 years ago. And we're sort of not necessarily AI native from day 1, but very quickly, that would give them the growth they see today with the people to AI. So we see a little bit of that. We have companies that are other parts of the stack in AI on the, say, the [ steady ] side, the other components of the infrastructure. And we have other companies that are purely applications filled with AI. So we have a bit of everything in there. Like it's actually fairly representative of the space.
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Operator
Our next question comes from the line of Mark Murphy of JPMorgan.
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Mark Murphy
Analyst
You had mentioned the expansion of the contract with your largest AI native customer and I believe you said better economics for a higher commitment. Can you speak to that because I would assume a higher commitment would carry a volume-based discount. I'm just trying to understand if. For some reason, if that was not the case here, what did you mean by better economics? And then I have a quick follow-up.
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Olivier Pomel
Analyst
Yes. I mean, this is without getting to the detail of any specific customer like this is the motion is always the same, like customers grow, they commit to more, they get better prices. So you see, like a, again, talking about customers in general, you see both of usage, drops in revenue as customers renew and get higher commit and a better price and then usually growth after that for those customers. That's the motion that we've had. We have about 30,000 customers so far.
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Mark Murphy
Analyst
Okay. And the -- what in that, so the better economics part of it is just where it's going to be netting out like 12 months down the road? Is that what you mean?
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Olivier Pomel
Analyst
Well, the bigger economics means you commit tomorrow, you get a better price. And as we -- remember, we have a usage model. So we charge people every month on what they use at the price we agreed. So if you get better economics, and your usage is somewhat similar month to month, one month and the next that you pay less, but the overall backdrop of our business is increased consumption.
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Mark Murphy
Analyst
Okay. And then as a quick follow-up, Olivier, the acceleration that you saw in the security growth is pretty noticeable too. We recall, I think about 6 months ago, you had ramped up and engaged a lot more of a channel partners, which is a key ingredient to grow in the security business. Is it a function of that? Or is there a mindset change happening out there where customers want observability to be the central point of collection so that all the security teams and the ops teams are working with the same set of metrics and logs and tracers?
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Olivier Pomel
Analyst
Look, I think it's a number of things. Definitely, we've been investing in the channel, and that's certainly helpful to do the security business as a whole. The win -- the big win we mentioned on security that we mentioned a couple of wins in Cloud SIEM. These tends to be more related to product maturity. The strength of our underlying platform, especially when it comes to technology like Flex Logs, for example. And the fact also that we've been learning how to properly go to market for security. And I think we see things clicking in a way that is exciting.
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Operator
Operator
Our next question comes from the line of Fatima Boolani of Citi.
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Fatima Boolani
Analyst
Oli, I'll start with you and I have a follow-up for Dave. On the On-Call product, Oli, how do agentic advancements in general detract or enhance the value proposition here? And I'm very simplistically thinking about the core nature and value proposition of the On-Call product intelligently routing, requests for remediation, right? So how do you just broader advancements in AI, help beef up and/or detract your ability to monetize this product? And then just a follow-up for David, please.
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Olivier Pomel
Analyst
Well, I mean, if you zoom out, we entered the field with On-Call because we wanted to own the end-to-end incident resolution. So we wanted because we before that, we were detecting the incidents and sending the alerts, and then we were pretty much where the resolution happened after that. Customers were spending their time in data to diagnose and understand what was going on. So we wanted to own the full cycle. . And we thought that with AI, in particular, we'd have the ability to do things if we are on the whole cycle that we couldn't do otherwise. So what you see right now is, I mean, this resonates with customers, they adopting to product. We've mentioned like some exciting customers with say, [ one ] with 5,000 seats for On-Call, which is very exciting. But in the future, there's many more things we can do in working on for that product. If we both detect incident and notify, we can do some sort of things such as even predicting the incident and notifying early or rerouting early or telling people before the incident actually takes place, how they can potentially fix it. So these are all things we're working on. I mean, look, if you look at the various product announcements we've made, whether that's Bits AI or SRE or the time series forecasting model we have released. When you assemble all that, you get to a very, very interesting picture of what we can do in the future. So we're excited by that. Our customers are excited by the vision there too, and that's why these products are successful.
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Fatima Boolani
Analyst
Appreciate that. David, on net retention rates, why aren't we necessarily seeing more upward pressure on the metric, just given the strength of expansionary bookings that you alluded to in the quarter from the installed base. And I mean I suspect it's because it's a trailing 12-month metric. But any directional color you can just share on that. And any high-level commentary on some of the non-AI native net retention rate trend behavior?
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David Obstler
Analyst
Yes, you've nailed it. It's a trailing 12 months, it's a number that's rounded, it has the dynamics that you might expect in that the growth of the non-AI natives has been, as we mentioned, a combination of landing and expanding at higher rates than we've seen in recent quarters. So if that continues as you go into a trailing 12-month metric, you see a directional movement.
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Operator
Our next question comes from the line of Eric Heath of KeyBanc.
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Eric Heath
Analyst
Oli, David, Bits AI seems like a really exciting thing out of Dash. And I know it's still in preview, but you mentioned there's a lot of interest there. So I'm just curious how you think about the agentic opportunity with Bits AI. How meaningful this can be for 2026 as a differentiator versus competition and also as a revenue contributor?
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Olivier Pomel
Analyst
Yes. So -- I mean, look, it's super exciting. The feedback is very good on it. I mean, we've been collecting all the -- so I read one quote, we have dozens that look just like that, that was sent to us by customers. And so that's very, very exciting. We also started having some customers buy and come to it to just to show value and to make sure we're on to the right product mix. And so we feel good that this is something that is high quality and we can monetize. In terms of the impact for next year, on the packaging side, I'm not completely sure yet whether the biggest impact will be seen from what we charge Bits AI itself or for the rest of the platform, that it gets benefits from the differentiation of Bits AI. I think that's more of a broader question of packaging and monetization of AI. And remember that we have a product that is usage based. So anything that drives usage up and adoption from customers is good for us and is very, very monetizable. But what we can tell is this is differentiating, this is good. It works significantly better than anything else we've seen or heard of in the market, and we are doubling down on it. We have many, many teams now working on deepening Bits AI SREs to making sure it goes further into the resolution doesn't just point to the issue, but fixes the code that all these kind of things working hard on that. We're also working on breadth, making sure that we train it on many more types of data, many types of sources, sometimes even systems that are observe the systems that are not dialed up, so we can cut across to other systems our customers are using. So we are very, very aggressively developing Bits AI SRE. It's resonating very well in the market.
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Operator
Operator
Our next question comes from the line of Gray Powell of BTIG.
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Gray Powell
Analyst
Congratulations on the great results. So maybe just like taking a step back, if we go back to the beginning of the year, Datadog was expecting 19% revenue growth. It looks like you're tracking to something over 26% growth now, and that's just the high end of your guidance. So I guess my question is, what surprised you the most this year? And then just how do you feel about the sustainability of those drivers as you look forward?
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Olivier Pomel
Analyst
I mean, look, the -- so first, I apologize for over delivering on the results. We might do it again, but we'll see. I think the biggest surprise for us has been that -- so AI in general has or AI adoption has grown faster than we thought it would at the beginning of the year. So we've seen that across our AI cohort. We've seen also that we got some of our new products and new, like the changes we're making on the go-to-market side to click perhaps earlier than we would have thought otherwise. So all in all, we saw the leading part of the business with AI growth faster, not the lagging but the slower growing, more traditional part of the business also accelerate and that gets us where we are today.
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David Obstler
Analyst
And I'd add, we have a good demand environment and we've been investing whether it be in the products that Oli's been talking about or in the sales capacity we made clear that we were in investment and we're seeing those investments pay off.
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Operator
Operator
Our next question comes from the line of Koji Ikeda of Bank of America Securities.
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Koji Ikeda
Analyst
Just one from me here. I wanted to ask a question on the inflection in the non-AI native growth and how to think about the areas of strength in this cohort. Is it coming from your largest enterprises? Is it coming from a certain type of customer? Is there a common theme in the workloads that you're seeing or the products that are being added on that is driving that strength? Or is it just really just broad-based? What I'm trying to get out here is I'm really trying to understand more the durability of this growth reflection.
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Olivier Pomel
Analyst
So it is broad-based. And I think, again, speaks to a couple of things. It speaks to the fact that, in general, the demand environment is good. Though I would say, there's been a very, very high growth of hyperscaler revenue like over the past an acceleration for the hyper scalers in general. A lot of that is GPU related, but the growth we're seeing here and the exception we're seeing here is largely not GPU-related. It's a little bit of it, but not a ton of it. So that's not exactly what you've seen with some of the other vendors there. One reason this is broad-based is these are the same products we sell to all customers, and this is largely the same go-to-market organization that we have a few segments, but -- and we've been doing well executing there. I think we've invested quite a bit in product, and we keep and we will keep doing it, and we see the results of that.
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David Obstler
Analyst
Yes, I want to -- I'll add that it's across the customer base, enterprise SMB. And when we look at it, it's not just an AI SMB. If you remove the AI companies, you still see a strengthening SMB demand cycle going on. And unlike in previous periods, it also is across spending ranges. We're not seeing larger spenders or smaller spenders. We're just seeing a broad trend of improved demand across the spending trends.
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Olivier Pomel
Analyst
And remember that for us, SMB is, any company of less than 1,000 employees. It includes a lot of very legitimate and growing businesses. It's not...
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Operator
Operator
Our next question comes from the line of Ittai Kidron of Oppenheimer & Co.
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Ittai Kidron
Analyst
Congrats guys. Really great numbers. Oli, in your answer to one of the questions and kind of going into the drivers behind the upside. You've talked about sales capacity increase. You didn't talk much about sales efficiency. Is there a way you can give us some color on where do you stand on percent of salespeople that are hitting quota, where does that ratio stand relative to historical patterns for you guys? And as you approach '26 year, do you anticipate any material changes in the comp structure just given the breadth of product and the list of opportunities, how do you get people focused?
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Olivier Pomel
Analyst
Yes. So we feel good about the sales productivity in general. And the rule generally, you grow by scaling capacity and maintaining productivity, it's hard to drive both up at the same time. And remember, if you want to go to 10x, you can do that by scaling if you can't really do it by improving productivity, so you have to scale. And we've been doing that, and we've been successful at it so far. In terms of the complaints that, look, we keep changing the way we compensate and the way we manage the sales force in general to make sure we have the right focus. One of the gifts of a business like ours is that we see -- we have a very heavy land-and-expand model. And so we get a lot of growth from existing customers. The challenge it creates on the other hand is how do we get to focus the sales force on the newer customers, the smaller ones and the new ones because it is more work to get an extra dollar for a smaller customer or for a new one and it is from an existing one that they already have scale. And so a lot of the tweaks we met to our comp plans relate to that. Who do we make sure we direct our attention and we reward people for what is going to generate the most long-term growth for us. And we've made a number of changes. I won't go through them, these are our internal changes. But we had a number of changes this year, we see a number of them pay off. Another thing I mentioned on the call was you mentioned a win for one of our new go-to-market motions and that specifically getting in place multiyear plans to go after some larger customers that are tougher to land than what we've done in the past. And sometimes, it takes more than a year to land certain types of customers. And the problem is if you comp plan only has a 1-year horizon, like it doesn't give a great incentive for the sales force to go after those customers. And so we cordoned off a few of those companies who have special plans to go after that, and we're starting to see success with that too. It's just an example.
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Operator
Operator
Our next question comes from the line of Andrew Sherman of TD Cowen.
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Andrew Sherman
Analyst
Great. Congrats. I know you have a team focused on the Fortune 500, where there's still a lot of white space for you. Curious to hear how the team is ramping to productivity. Did that help drive some of the strong new logo bookings and can this contribute even more next year?
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Olivier Pomel
Analyst
Yes. I mean, look, the team is not new, right? I mean, we've been focusing on that for many years, and we're tracking well. One thing I was mentioning just before was one challenge even in the Fortune 500 is to make sure that we focus on landing new customers and make sure that there's the right amount of sales attention and reward for the landing a customer even if it's for a small amount, and I think we've done well. I mean again, we can comment on that again after the next quarter when we have a full year of our new clients that have been validated. But so far, we feel very good about it.
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Operator
Our next question comes from the line of Alex Zukin of Wolfe Research.
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Aleksandr Zukin
Analyst
Congrats on dropping some truly inspiring quotes in the script. Maybe Oli, one for you and then I have a quick follow-up for David. Just the duration of this acceleration of the non-AI cohort. It seems like from all your forward-looking metrics, whether it's billings, RPO, CRPO. Those were, again, really, really strong how long do you think we should think about the duration of this trend of this non-AI acceleration?
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Olivier Pomel
Analyst
Well, we're a consumption business. So we -- the hardest thing to understand is what the future is going to look like for consumption. The way I would say it is we feel very good about it at the midterm, long term. Now with ebbs and flow in any given month or quarter, that's harder to tell. And again, that's what we've seen through the life of the company. So we feel very confident about the motion in general for digital transformation and cloud migration is steady. And sometimes it slows down a little bit, but it reaccelerates after that. And we see that key going on for a very long time.
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Aleksandr Zukin
Analyst
Okay. And then maybe, David, for you, look, gross profit dollar acceleration while you're seeing your largest customer kind of get better unit economics is also inspiring to see how should we think about the progression of gross margins and gross profit dollar growth, particularly as you continue to also see the AI cohort acceleration.
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David Obstler
Analyst
Yes, there's a couple of things. I think we've mentioned that we've been focused and have focused over the many years on the efficiency of our cloud platform. We have significant engineering efforts around cost of sales and delivery of value. And so we've been able to deliver on that. We also have a very broad customer base distributed in terms of volume. So as customers get larger and maybe get volume discounts, we have a number -- a lot of customers coming in, it's smaller, so that balance there. And then in terms of the sort of the future -- I'll repeat what we've always said that we've been running the company with a gross margin plus or minus 80%, we've given that range and not changed it, and we watch it. And it gives us mixed signals in terms of efficiency, how we're operating, it gives us good signals in pricing and things like that and I wouldn't change the comments we made over the many years about looking at that and then developing operations and strategies around that.
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Operator
Operator
Our next question comes from the line of Ryan MacWilliams of Wells Fargo.
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Ryan MacWilliams
Analyst
Just one for me. On the large AI contract expansion that you provided commentary on, is there any way we can think about the contribution change from this customer over the next few quarters?
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David Obstler
Analyst
No. I mean we don't provide that kind of information on individual customers. We're trying to give a picture of the overall business. Generally, I think as Oli mentioned, on our larger customers, we have a motion of the expansion of volume and then we talk when we work on the term and the volume-based pricing, but we don't give guidance like that on individual customers.
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Operator
Our next question comes from the line of Mike Cikos of Needham.
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Michael Cikos
Analyst
I just wanted to come back to it, Oli, for the non-AI native strength, I know we've kind of hit on this a number of times, whether it's road map sales capacity execution, but like kudos on the numbers here? I'm just trying to get a better sense of the why now. Is it just a composite of all those different pieces clicking together this quarter? Or is there anything more to unpack there? And then I have a follow-up for David.
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Olivier Pomel
Analyst
Again, I don't think there's a lot more to unpack there. And I know it's boring in a way, but it's also the way we've been growing for the past 15 years, really. So that's a -- I would call it the usual.
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Michael Cikos
Analyst
Awesome. Awesome to hear. Okay. And then for the follow-up to David. David, I don't want to take anything away from the Q3 results you guys just posted, and we obviously have the strong guide here for Q4. But I just can imagine myself a month from now starting to get inbounds from certain folks asking about the holiday season and the fact that we have the holidays landing on weekdays in Q4 here. Can you just kind of discuss how you thought about constructing guidance for this Q4 year?
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David Obstler
Analyst
Yes. We have years of experience of analyzing the day-by-day patterns. In the holidays, we know that the holiday period ends up in the usage side because of vacation holidays, and we incorporate that into our guidance. We, I think, evolved a lot over the years and sort of days adjusted types of days, et cetera. And so we would be incorporating that like we've incorporated in other years. If there are differences in this calendar period, we incorporate that as always.
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Operator
Operator
Our next question comes from the line of Karl Keirstead of UBS.
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Karl Keirstead
Analyst
Okay. Great. I'll ask one for David and one for Olivier. David, first of all, congratulations on the extension of the larger contract, I think everybody on the line is applauding that. I know you're reticent to get into any details, but maybe I could try. Are you able to clarify whether that was a 1-year deal or multiyear? And then related to that, David, what is the contribution to CRPO from that deal, which I presume landed in your CRPO number. If it is a 1-year deal does the entirety of that contract contribute to the sequential CRPO performance in the quarter? So that's it for you, David. And then Olivier, maybe I'll just ask both at once. Some of the very large AI natives are beginning to diversify to utilizing Oracle's OCI and Stargate. And I'm wondering what's the opportunity for Datadog to essentially follow that behavior and begin scaling on Oracle's target or because a lot of what Oracle is doing with the AI native is training clusters, perhaps that near-term opportunity is more limited.
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David Obstler
Analyst
Yes. On the first point, I think we give a lot of examples and our motion, which our customers would be following, including that one would be -- we fix out annual plus commits. We're not commenting on individual contracts here, but it would follow a typical path to other types of contracts. So that's what we would do.
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Olivier Pomel
Analyst
Yes. And on the OCI, look, this is -- we've built an OCI integration, and then we see more demand from customers on OCI. Some of the things we see like the targets, et cetera, like these are extremely custom build out, like I don't know -- they're not necessarily exactly cloud because they are custom built for specific customers. So the opportunity there is more remote today. But it's -- again, one company is that it's a not fantastic opportunity to product type. But if 10, 15, 20, 50 companies start using that, then that really becomes a commercial opportunity. And so we're very much plugged into all of that. And we go basically where our customers are.
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David Obstler
Analyst
I think you mentioned about the RPO. I think in this case, we've mentioned this current and the total is roughly the same, and there wouldn't be anything in that contract that would have been materially around of those numbers. Those numbers, I think we mentioned are produced from the bookings growth more generally and not from that particular contract.
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Operator
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Our next question comes from the line of Jake Roberge of William Blair.
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Jacob Roberge
Analyst
Yes. Just on the recent go-to-market investments, obviously, it seems like there's been a lot of traction thus far with those. So I'm curious if there are any areas like security or the new logos or upmarket that you could look to lean even deeper into just given the growth that you've seen here.
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Olivier Pomel
Analyst
Yes, definitely. And there are some things we didn't do this year that we'll definitely go to the next year. So there's a number of things we are -- we're in Q4, right? So we're in the middle of planning for next year, and we basically will keep scaling what's working, stop doing some of the things that are not conclusive and then try to do more things. That's the way it works. Interestingly enough, building a go-to-market is not that different from building software like you experiment together data you see what's working was not working and you build the systems.
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Jacob Roberge
Analyst
That's helpful. And then just on the new Bits AI Agents, can you just talk about the early feedback that you've gotten for those solutions and maybe how the engagement with those agents as compared to kind of the ramp of security Flex Logs. I know, obviously, much earlier days, but just how it compared when those were still largely in the preview phase?
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Olivier Pomel
Analyst
I mean look, the Bits AI Agent is -- it really has a growth factor for customers. So what works really well is and we've seen that number of times, like we set it up for them. It's running on their alert and they go through an outage and they still go to the motion, so they still go -- they still set up a bridge and they have 20 people and they spend 2 hours and in the end, they have an idea what went wrong. And then they go to Datadog and they see, oh, there's an investigation that had run. And 3 minutes into the outage, it got the same conclusion that we got 2 hours later with 20 people on the call. And that's completely eye-opening for customers when they see us. And we have -- so that's why we get many quotes about it. So now there's more we need to do there, like customers say, "Oh, it's great. Now can it make this fix for me? Can you do this? Can you do that? Can you support that other system that right now, you can't actually set it up for. So we have a very, very full road map of things we need to do, and we're doubling down on it. We also shipped -- I mean this one is in preview, but we shipped a security agent that looks at vulnerabilities and looks at security signals and those triad that basically look at trying to investigate what might be benign or what might be a real issue. We also are getting very, very positive feedback for that. And in fact, that's what helped us win some large land deals for our Cloud SIEM products because the combination of the SIEM that runs extremely efficiently on top of observability data that runs very efficiently on top of Flex Log, but also saves an immense amount of time by getting 90% of the issues out of the way with automated investigation that's extremely attractive to customers. All right. And I think with that, we're going to close the call. So -- before we go, I just want to give one quick shout out to the team because I know, as I said earlier, we have quite a lot going on in Q4, whether it's on the planning side, on the product building side or on the sales side, where I said we have a really, really exciting pipeline. And so we have a lot to do. I want to thank the team for the hard work there. I also -- I'm looking forward to meeting a lot of our existing and new customers at AWS re:Invent in a few weeks, and I'll see you all there. Thank you all.
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