On December 15, 2025, the Deductive team received an unexpected email from Datadog notifying us that our account was under review. While it is always a little flattering to receive that level of attention from an industry incumbent, we initially assumed this would be resolved quickly through clarification. It did not immediately occur to us that a public company at Datadog’s scale could view a much smaller startup like Deductive as a potential competitive threat.Datadog access was revoked, and p...