36-401: GitLab Inc. is an open-core company that operates GitLab, a DevOps software package that can develop, secure, and operate software. GitLab includes a distributed version control based on Git , including features such as access control , bug tracking , software feature requests, task management , and wikis for every project, as well as snippets . The open-source software project
72-518: A SaaS -based data analytics platform. Founded and headquartered in New York City, the company is a publicly traded entity on the Nasdaq stock exchange. The mascot is a dog named Bits. Datadog was founded in New York City in 2010 by Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc, who met while working at Wireless Generation . After Wireless Generation was acquired by NewsCorp , the two set out to create
108-420: A contributor license agreement , which either dictates that the copyright of all contributions to the product become the property of its owner , or that the product's owner is given an unlimited, non-exclusive license to use the contributions, but the authors retain copyright ownership. In an open-core scenario, these agreements are typically meant to allow the commercial owner of the product (which in some cases,
144-518: A "core" or feature-limited version of a software product as free and open-source software , while offering "commercial" versions or add-ons as proprietary software . The term was coined by Andrew Lampitt in 2008. The concept of open-core software has proven to be controversial, as many developers do not consider the business model to be true open-source software. Despite this, open-core models are used by many open-source software companies. Some open-core products require their contributors to sign
180-435: A $ 6.2 million Series A round co-led by Index Ventures and RTP Ventures. In 2014, Datadog raised a $ 15 million Series B round led by OpenView Venture Partners, followed by a $ 31 million Series C round led by Index Ventures in 2015. Datadog opened 2016 with a $ 94.5 million Series D round led by ICONIQ Capital , one of the largest funding rounds for a New York City company during that year. Datadog went public via an IPO on
216-476: A cloud-based spreadsheet application that integrates with your live data sources, enabling you to access and join data from across your cloud stack. Datadog offers a range of monitoring services to support engineering teams in effectively managing their cloud or hybrid environments. These services include Infrastructure Monitoring, Network Performance Monitoring, Network Device Monitoring, Serverless Monitoring, and Cloud Cost Management to help businesses maintain
252-497: A continuous “fuzz” security testing solution. On June 2, 2021, GitLab Inc. acquired UnReview, a tool that automates software review cycles. On December 14, 2021, GitLab Inc. announced that it had acquired Opstrace, Inc., developers of an open source software monitoring and observability platform. Open-core model The open-core model is a business model for the monetization of commercially produced open-source software . The open-core model primarily involves offering
288-549: A product that would reduce the friction they experienced between developer and systems administration teams, who were often working at cross-purposes. They built Datadog to be a cloud infrastructure monitoring service, with dashboards, alerting, and visualizations of metrics. As cloud adoption increased, Datadog grew rapidly and expanded its product offerings to cover service providers including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure , Google Cloud Platform , Red Hat OpenShift , VMware , and OpenStack . In 2015, Datadog opened
324-547: A research and development office in Paris. In 2016, Datadog moved its New York City headquarters to a full floor of the New York Times Building to support its growing team, which doubled over the course of the year. Datadog announced the beta-release of Application Performance Monitoring in 2016, offering for the first time a full-stack monitoring solution. As of 2024, the company has more than 5,200 employees,
360-653: A secondary shares investment in GitLab Inc. On March 18, 2021, GitLab Inc. licensed its technology to the Chinese company JiHu. On June 30, 2021, GitLab Inc. spun out Meltano, an open source ELT platform. On July 23, 2021, GitLab Inc. released its software Package Hunter, a Falco-based tool that detects malicious code, under the open-source MIT Licence. On August 4, 2022, GitLab announced its plans for changing its Data Retention Policy and for automatically deleting inactive repositories which have not been modified for
396-414: A service that provided security scanners with alerts for known security vulnerabilities in open-source libraries of various languages. The service was scheduled for complete shut-down on May 15. Gemnasium features and technology was integrated into GitLab EE and as part of CI/CD . On June 11, 2020, GitLab Inc. acquired Peach Tech, a security software firm specializing in protocol fuzz testing , and Fuzzit,
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#1732794454671432-678: A testing and observability company for developer workflows. In February 2021, Datadog announced its acquisition of Timber, a vendor agnostic, high-performance data pipeline. In February 2021, Datadog announced its acquisition of Sqreen, an application security platform for the modern enterprise. In November 2021, Datadog announced its acquisition of Ozcode, a live debugging solution that brings code-level visibility into production environments. In August 2022, Datadog announced its acquisition of Seekret, an API observability platform. In May 2022, Datadog announced its acquisition of HDIV. In Oct 2022, Datadog announced its acquisition of CoScreen,
468-423: A tool for real-time collaboration. In November 2022, Datadog announced its acquisition of Cloudcraft, an infrastructure modeling solution that enables you to create dynamic architecture diagrams. In April 2023, Datadog announced its acquisition of Codiga, which provides powerful static code analysis that works across the development lifecycle. In November 2023, Datadog announced its acquisition of Actiondesk,
504-479: A year. As a result, in the following days GitLab received much criticism from the open-source community. Shortly after, it was announced that dormant projects would not be deleted, and would instead remain accessible in an archived state, potentially using a slower type of storage. In May 2023, the company launched the "GitLab 16.0" platform as an AI-driven DevSecOps solution. It contained over 55 new features and enhancements. In July 2024, Reuters reported that GitLab
540-520: Is ultimately the copyright holder to all of its code, regardless of its original author) to simultaneously market versions of the product under open-source and non-free licenses. This is in contrast with more traditional uses of CLAs, which are meant solely to allow the steward of an open-source project to defend and protect the copyrights of its contributors, or to guarantee that the code will only ever be made available under open-source terms (thus protecting it from becoming open core). A new variation of
576-546: The COVID-19 pandemic , GitLab Inc. released "GitLab's Guide to All-Remote" as well as a course on remote management for the purpose of aiding companies interested in building all-remote work cultures. April 2020 saw the expansion of GitLab Inc. into the Australian and Japanese markets. In November that same year, GitLab Inc. was valued at more than $ 6 billion in a secondary market evaluation. In 2021, OMERS participated in
612-407: The "Commons Clause", a restriction on sale of the software on top of the existing Apache License terms. After criticism, this was changed in 2019 to the "Redis Source Available License", a non-free license which forbids sale of the software as part of "a database, a caching engine, a stream processing engine, a search engine, an indexing engine or an ML/DL/AI serving engine". The last versions of
648-445: The ability to download plug-ins and themes from within the software. The trademark guidelines were also modified to cover use of "WP". In October 2024, WP Engine formally filed a lawsuit against Automattic for defamation and extortion . Datadog Datadog, Inc. is an American company that provides an observability service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services, through
684-408: The development of the open-source code-sharing platform launched in 2011 by Dmytriy (or Dmitriy) Zaporozhets. The company's co-founder Sytse Sijbrandij initially contributed to the project and decided to build a business around it. GitLab offers its platform using a freemium model. Since its founding, GitLab Inc. has promoted remote work and is known as one of the largest all-remote companies in
720-590: The licensed software. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) ruled that the SSPL violates the Open Source Definition and is therefore not a free software license, as the provision discriminates against commercial users. Debian , Fedora , and Red Hat Enterprise Linux pulled MongoDB from their distributions after the license change, considering the new license to be in violation of their licensing policies. Redis Labs made its Redis plugins subject to
756-835: The majority of which are located in the US, with offices in New York, Boston, Paris, Dublin, Denver, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Japan, Australia and Singapore. Prior to Datadog's initial public offering (IPO) in September 2019, the company was offered over $ 7 billion to be acquired by Cisco , but rejected it in favor of going public. In Feb 2015, Datadog announced its acquisition of Mortar Data to help tie analytics to data monitoring. In September 2017, Datadog announced its acquisition of Logmatic. In February 2019, Datadog announced its acquisition of Madumbo. In August 2020, Datadog announced its acquisition of Undefined Labs,
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#1732794454671792-687: The modules licensed solely under the Apache License were forked and are maintained by community members under the GoodFORM project. A similar move was made when HashiCorp switched to the non-free Business Source License (BSL) on its products, including Terraform , which received the Linux Foundation -backed fork OpenTofu. In September 2024, WP Engine —a hosting provider that uses the free and open source WordPress software—began to face criticism from Matt Mullenweg —the founder of
828-428: The practice emerged in 2018 among several open core products intended for server-side use, seeking to control use of the product as part of a service offered to a customer. These practices, in particular, target incorporation of the software into proprietary services by cloud application service providers such as Amazon Web Services , but with what vendors perceive to be inadequate compensation or contributions back to
864-433: The project's corporate sponsor Automattic , and owner of the competitor WordPress.com . During a presentation and blog post, he criticized WP Engine over inadequate upstream contributions, disabling of features, private equity funding, and trademark dilution of the "WP" prefix. He called the company a "cancer" to WordPress, and called for a boycott of its services. WP Engine sent a cease and desist to Automattic demanding
900-596: The proposed initial public offering of its Class A common stock. The firm began trading on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker "GTLB" on October 14, 2021. GitLab Forge was officially adopted in 2023 by the French Ministry for Education to create a "Digital Educational Commons" of educational resources. In March 2015, GitLab Inc. acquired competing Git hosting Service Gitorious , which had around 822,000 registered users at
936-528: The reliability, performance, and cost-effectiveness of their infrastructure and applications. Datadog uses a Go -based agent, rewritten from scratch since its major version 6.0.0 released on February 28, 2018. It was formerly Python -based, forked from the original created in 2009 by David Mytton for Server Density (previously called Boxed Ice). Its backend is built using a number of open and closed source technologies including D3 , Apache Cassandra , Kafka , PostgreSQL , etc. In 2014, Datadog support
972-658: The removal of the comments, stating that they operated within the WordPress Foundation trademark usage guidelines, and that Automattic had been demanding "significant percentage of its gross revenues" in licensing fees. While WordPress is licensed under the GNU General Public License , Mullenweg began to enforce restrictions against WP Engine by banning it from any services hosted under the WordPress.org domain, including automatic updates and
1008-465: The service inaccessible to users in several regions including: Crimea , Cuba , Iran , North Korea , Sudan , and Syria , due to sanctions imposed by Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States . In order to overcome this limitation, the non-profit organization Framasoft began providing a Debian mirror to make GitLab CE available in those countries. In 2020 at the beginning of
1044-506: The service themselves) must be released under the SSPL if it incorporates an SSPL-licensed component (unlike the AGPL, where this provision only applies to the copyrighted work that is licensed under the AGPL). Bruce Perens , co-author of The Open Source Definition , argued that the SSPL violated its requirement for an open source license to not place restrictions on software distributed alongside
1080-571: The time. These users were encouraged to move to GitLab and the Gitorious service was discontinued in June 2015. On March 15, 2017, GitLab Inc. announced the acquisition of Gitter . Included in the announcement was the stated intent that Gitter would continue as a standalone project. Additionally, GitLab Inc. announced that the code would become open-source under an MIT License no later than June 2017. In January 2018, GitLab Inc. acquired Gemnasium,
1116-570: The upstream software in return. MongoDB changed its license from the GNU Affero General Public License (a variation of the GPL which requires that the software's source code be offered to those who use it over a network) to a modified version titled the " Server Side Public License " (SSPL), where the source code of the entire service (including, without limitation, all code needed for another user to run an instance of
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1152-506: The world. By 2020, the company employed 1300 people in 65 countries. The company participated in the YCombinator seed accelerator Winter 2015 program. By 2015, notable customers included Alibaba Group and IBM . In January 2017, a database administrator accidentally deleted the production database in the aftermath of a cyberattack , causing the loss of a substantial amount of issue data and merge request data. The recovery process
1188-446: Was live-streamed on YouTube . In April 2018, GitLab Inc. announced integration with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to simplify the process of spinning up a new cluster to deploy applications. In May 2018, GNOME moved to GitLab with over 400 projects and 900 contributors. On August 1, 2018, GitLab Inc. started development of Meltano. On August 11, 2018, GitLab Inc. moved from Microsoft Azure to Google Cloud Platform , making
1224-405: Was broadened to multiple cloud service providers including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure , Google Cloud Platform , and Red Hat OpenShift . As of October 2024, the company supports over 750 integrations. In 2010, Datadog launched with a seed round, with participation by NYC Seed, Contour Venture Partners, IA Ventures, Jerry Neumann and Alex Payne, among others. In 2012, it raised
1260-418: Was created by Ukrainian developer Dmytro (or Dmitriy) Zaporozhets and Dutch developer Sytse Sijbrandij. In 2018, GitLab Inc. was considered to be the first partly Ukrainian unicorn . GitLab has an estimated over 30 million registered users, including 1 million active licensed users. There are more than 3,300 code contributors and team members in 60+ countries. GitLab Inc. was established in 2014 to continue
1296-401: Was exploring a potential sale after attracting acquisition interest, with cloud monitoring firm Datadog named as one of the interested parties. GitLab Inc. initially raised $ 1.5 million in seed funding . Subsequent funding rounds include: On September 17, 2021, GitLab Inc. publicly filed a registration statement Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) relating to
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