# Source: https://docs.datadoghq.com/developers/guide/data-collection-resolution.md

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# Datadog Data Collection and Resolution

Find below a summary of Datadog data [collection](https://docs.datadoghq.com/glossary/#collection-interval) and [resolution](https://docs.datadoghq.com/glossary/#minimum-resolution). See information on [Data Retention Periods](https://docs.datadoghq.com/data_security/data_retention_periods).

| Product category               | Source                                                                            | Collection Methods                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | Collection interval                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | Minimum Resolution                |
| ------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------- |
| APM                            | Profiles                                                                          | Datadog Agent + tracing library                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | 60 seconds                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | 60 seconds                        |
| APM                            | Profile metrics                                                                   | Datadog Agent + tracing library                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | 60 seconds                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | 60 seconds                        |
| APM                            | Services/resources statistics and span summaries                                  | Datadog Agent + tracing library                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | 10 seconds                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | 10 seconds                        |
| APM                            | Indexed spans                                                                     | Datadog Agent + tracing library                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | 10 seconds                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | 1 millisecond                     |
| APM                            | Trace metrics (unsampled)                                                         | Datadog Agent + tracing library                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | 10 seconds                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | 1 second                          |
| ASM                            | Suspicious requests                                                               | Datadog Agent + tracing library                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | 10 seconds                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | 1 millisecond                     |
| Audit Trail                    | Datadog audit events                                                              | Datadog usage activity                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    | n/a                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | 1 second                          |
| CI Visibility                  | Pipeline, Stage, Job, Step, Command span                                          | Webhooks, Datadog Agent + plugin                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | Data source-dependent                                                                                                                                                                                                                               | 1 millisecond                     |
| CD Visibility                  | Deployment execution                                                              | Webhooks, Datadog Agent + plugin                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | Data source-dependent                                                                                                                                                                                                                               | 1 millisecond                     |
| Code Security (SCA, SAST, IaC) | GitHub App                                                                        | Source code                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               | n/a - scans are performed on push to origin, not on a fixed interval                                                                                                                                                                                | n/a                               |
| Cloud                          | Alibaba                                                                           | API crawler                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               | 10 minutes ([default](https://docs.datadoghq.com/integrations/guide/cloud-metric-delay/#faster-metrics))                                                                                                                                            | 1 minute                          |
| Cloud                          | AWS                                                                               | API crawler                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               | 10 minutes ([default](https://docs.datadoghq.com/integrations/guide/cloud-metric-delay/#faster-metrics))                                                                                                                                            | 1 minute                          |
| Cloud                          | Azure                                                                             | API crawler                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               | 2 minutes ([default](https://docs.datadoghq.com/integrations/guide/cloud-metric-delay/#faster-metrics))                                                                                                                                             | 1 minute                          |
| Cloud                          | Google Cloud                                                                      | API crawler                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               | 5 minutes ([default](https://docs.datadoghq.com/integrations/guide/cloud-metric-delay/#faster-metrics))                                                                                                                                             | 1 minute                          |
| Cloud                          | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure                                                       | Metric collector                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | Real-time                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | 1 minute                          |
| Cloud Cost Management          | AWS                                                                               | Cost and Usage Report                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | 1 hour                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              | 1 day                             |
| Cloud Cost Management          | Azure                                                                             | Cost Exports                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              | 1 hour                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              | 1 day                             |
| Cloud Cost Management          | Google Cloud                                                                      | Detailed Usage Cost Export                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                | 1 hour                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              | 1 day                             |
| Cloud SIEM                     | Security Signals                                                                  | Datadog Cloud SIEM                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | Real time                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | 1 millisecond                     |
| Cloud Security                 | Findings                                                                          | Datadog Cloud Security Misconfigurations                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | 15 minutes to 4 hours depending on resource type                                                                                                                                                                                                    | 1 minute                          |
| Workload Protection            | Signals                                                                           | Datadog Cloud Security Threats                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            | Real time                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | 1 millisecond                     |
| Database Monitoring            | Query Metrics                                                                     | Datadog Agent + enabled integrations                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | 10 seconds                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | 1 second                          |
| Database Monitoring            | Query Samples                                                                     | Datadog Agent + enabled integrations                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | 1 minute                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            | n/a                               |
| DORA Metrics                   | Deployments, Failures                                                             | API, Datadog products                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | Data source-dependent                                                                                                                                                                                                                               | 1 millisecond                     |
| DORA Metrics                   | Deployment Frequency, Change Lead Time, Change Failure Rate, Mean time to restore | API, Datadog products                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | Data source-dependent                                                                                                                                                                                                                               | 1 millisecond                     |
| Error Tracking                 | Error Tracking                                                                    | Datadog products                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | Data source-dependent                                                                                                                                                                                                                               | 1 millisecond                     |
| Incident Management            | Incident Management                                                               | Incident data                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             | n/a                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | n/a                               |
| Infrastructure                 | Agent integrations                                                                | Datadog Agent + enabled integrations                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | 15 seconds                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | 1 second                          |
| Infrastructure                 | Custom metrics (Agent check)                                                      | Datadog Agent + custom Agent check                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | 15 seconds                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | 1 second                          |
| Infrastructure                 | Custom metrics (API)                                                              | POST directly to Datadog's API                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            | Real time                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | 1 second                          |
| Infrastructure                 | Custom metrics (StatsD)                                                           | Datadog Agent (built-in statsD collector)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | 15 seconds                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | 1 second                          |
| Infrastructure                 | Events                                                                            | Datadog Agent, integrations, or API                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       | Real time                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | 1 second                          |
| Infrastructure                 | Orchestrator Explorer (Kubernetes)                                                | Datadog Agent                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             | 15 seconds                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | 15 seconds                        |
| Infrastructure                 | Live containers                                                                   | Datadog Agent + enabled Docker integration                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                | 10 seconds                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | 10 seconds                        |
| Infrastructure                 | Live processes                                                                    | Datadog Agent                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             | 10 seconds                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | 10 seconds                        |
| Infrastructure                 | Cloud Network Monitoring                                                          | System Probe                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              | 30 seconds                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | 1 minute                          |
| Infrastructure                 | Network Device Monitoring                                                         | Datadog Agent                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             | 15 seconds                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | 1 second                          |
| Infrastructure                 | NetFlow Monitoring                                                                | Datadog Agent                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             | Real time                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | Aggregated over 5-minute interval |
| Infrastructure                 | System metrics                                                                    | Datadog Agent                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             | 15 seconds                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | 1 second                          |
| Logs                           | Logs                                                                              | Datadog Agent + Logs, third-party log collectors, or API                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Real time                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | 1 millisecond                     |
| Real User Monitoring           | Real User Monitoring                                                              | RUM SDK                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   | Real time                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | 1 millisecond                     |
| Real User Monitoring           | Session Replays                                                                   | RUM SDK                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   | Real time                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | 1 millisecond                     |
| Service Management             | Workflow Automation                                                               | Workflow executions                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       | User-defined                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | n/a                               |
| Service Management             | Service Level Objectives                                                          | Datadog monitors, Datadog Synthetic monitoring, or metrics (infrastructure, APM trace, custom)                                                                                                                                                                                            | Data source-dependent                                                                                                                                                                                                                               | Data source-dependent             |
| Synthetic Monitoring           | API Test metrics                                                                  | Datadog Synthetic Monitoring application                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | User-defined                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | 1 minute                          |
| Synthetic Monitoring           | API Test results                                                                  | Datadog Synthetic Monitoring application                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | User-defined                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | 1 minute                          |
| Synthetic Monitoring           | Browser Test metrics                                                              | Datadog Synthetic Monitoring application                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | User-defined                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | 5 minutes                         |
| Synthetic Monitoring           | Browser Test results                                                              | Datadog Synthetic Monitoring application                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | User-defined                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | 5 minutes                         |
| Synthetic Monitoring           | Batches                                                                           | Datadog Synthetic Monitoring application (through calls to the [Synthetics trigger API endpoint](https://docs.datadoghq.com/continuous_testing/cicd_integrations#use-the-api) or to the [Synthetics CI CLI](https://docs.datadoghq.com/continuous_testing/cicd_integrations#use-the-cli)) | Depending on calls to the [Synthetics trigger API endpoint](https://docs.datadoghq.com/continuous_testing/cicd_integrations#use-the-api) or to the [Synthetics CI CLI](https://docs.datadoghq.com/continuous_testing/cicd_integrations#use-the-cli) | n/a                               |
| Test Optimization              | Flaky test                                                                        | Test Optimization Test spans                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              | Data source-dependent                                                                                                                                                                                                                               | 1 millisecond                     |
| Test Optimization              | Test span                                                                         | Datadog Agent + tracing library                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | 60 seconds                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | 1 millisecond                     |
| USM                            | RED metrics                                                                       | Datadog Agent                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             | 30 seconds                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | 30 second                         |

## Further reading{% #further-reading %}

- [Data retention periods](https://docs.datadoghq.com/data_security/data_retention_periods)