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Should Datadog acquire Honeycomb to win observability?

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Direct Answer No — Honeycomb's $200-400M valuation is fair, the team is excellent, but the strategic fit is weak. Datadog already wins what Honeycomb wins (cloud-native APM); Honeycomb's distributed-tracing IP is not a moat Datadog needs af…

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