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Datadog (DDOG -0.45%)
Q1 2024 Earnings Call
May 07, 2024, 8:00 a.m. ET
Contents:
- Prepared Remarks
- Questions and Answers
- Call Participants
Prepared Remarks:
Operator
Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the first-quarter 2024 Datadog earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speakers' presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session.
[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, vice president of investor relations. Please go ahead.
Yuka Broderick -- Vice President, Investor Relations
Thank you, Marvin. Good morning and thank you for joining us to review Datadog's first-quarter 2024 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 second quarter and fiscal year 2024 and related notes and assumptions, our gross margins and operating margins, our product capabilities, our ability to capitalize on market opportunities and usage optimization trends.
The words anticipate, believe, continue, could, 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-K for the year ended December 31st, 2023. Additional information will be made available in our upcoming form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended March 31st, 2024, and other filings with the SEC.
This information is also available on the Investor Relations section of our website along with the 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.
Olivier Pomel -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Thanks, Yuka, and thank you, all, for joining us this morning. We are pleased with our execution at the start of 2024. First, we have continued to broaden our platform across observability, cloud security, software delivery, as well as closing the loop with cloud service management. We also kept supporting our customers' adoption of new technologies including next-gen AI and large language models. And we have continued to add new customers and to see existing customers increase our usage growth and product adoption.
Let me start with a review of our Q1 financial performance. Revenue was $611 million, an increase of 27% year over year and above the high end of our guidance range. We ended the quarter with about 28,000 customers, up from about 25,500 last year. We had about 3,340 customers with an ARR of $100,000 or more, up from about 2,910 last year. These customers generated about 87% of our ARR.
And we generated free cash flow of $187 million with a free cash flow margin of 31%. Turning to platform adoption. Out platform strategy continues to resonate in the market. As of the end of Q1, 82% of customers were using two or more products, up from 81% a year ago; 47% of customers were using four or more products, up from 43% a year ago; 23% of our customers were using six or more products, up from 19% a year ago; and 10% of our customers were using eight or more products, up from 7% last year. We continue to see robust growth in our three pillars of observability: infrastructure monitoring, APM, and log management, but we also have many younger products that are becoming more meaningful contributors to our business over time. For example, our products outside of infrastructure monitoring, APM suite, and log management exceeded 200 million in ARR in Q1.
And as a reminder, within the APM suite, we include core APM, Synthetics RUM, and Continuous Profiler. And as we look at the 12 products that we launched between 2020 and 2022, those now contribute about 11% to our ARR. Of those 12 products, eight are of around 10 million ARR, which is a nice milestone for these relatively new additions. And we are seeing some products grow faster than we initially expected. For example, database monitoring is already 1% of our revenue with strong and growing product penetration across our customer base.
So, we are very pleased with the progress of our newer product even though we know we have much further to go with them. Now, let's discuss this quarter's business drivers. In Q1, we saw usage growth from existing customers that was higher than in Q4. And you see this growth in Q1 was similar to what we experienced in Q2 and Q3 of 2022.
As a reminder, that was the period when we started to see a normalization of usage following the accelerated growth we had experienced in 2021. Overall, we saw healthy growth across our product lines, and as usual, our newer products grew at a faster rate from a smaller base. While some of our customers are continuing to be cost-conscious, we are seeing optimization activity reduce in intensity. As an illustration, the optimizing cohort we identified several quarters ago did grow sequentially again this quarter. We also see that customers are adopting more products and increasing usage with us.
We think this shows that they are moving forward with their cloud migration and digital transformation plans and that we are executing on opportunities to consolidate point solutions into our platform. And finally, churn continues to be low with gross revenue retention stable in the mid to high 90s, highlighting the mission-critical nature of our platform for our customers. Moving on to R&D, we had another very productive quarter. In the next-gen AI space, we announced general availability of Bits AI for incident management. By using Bits AI for incident management, incident responders get auto-generated incident summaries to quickly understand the context and scope of a complex incident. End users can also query Bits AI to ask about related incidents and perform tasks on the fly from incident creation to resolution.
We are also continuing to see more interest in AI for our customers. As a data point, ARR from our next-gen customers was about 3.5% of our total, a strong sign of the growing ecosystem of companies in this area. To have customers understand AI technologies and bring them into production applications, our AI integrations allow customers to pull their AI data into the Datadog platform. And today, about 2,000 of our customers are using one or more of these AI integrations. And we've continued to keep up with the rapid innovation in this space, for example, adding a new integration in Q1 with the NVIDIA Triton Inference Server. In the cloud service management area, we released Event Management in general availability. Our customers face increasing complexity at scale, causing the volume of alerts and events to explode, which makes it difficult for teams to identify, prioritize, summarize, and route issues to the right responders.
Event Management addresses this challenge by automatically reducing a massive volume of events and alerts into actionable insights. These are then used to generate tickets, call an incident, or trigger an automated remediation. And by combining Event Management with Watchdog, Bits AI, and Workflow Automation, Datadog now provides a full AIOps solution that helps teams automate remediation, proactively prevent outages, and reduce the impact of incidents. In the observability space, our Log Management product continues to expand in capability. In March, we made error tracking for logs generally available. Error tracking intelligently combines millions of errors from logs into a manageable number of issues for customers.
And beyond error tracking, we are delivering new features to allow our customers to do more with their logs within the Datadog platform, starting with new query capabilities such as enhanced full-text search and support for advanced subqueries, both highly desired by our customers. We also continue to make progress with Flex Logs. As a reminder, Flex Logs allow customers to easily scale storage and compute separately, which, in turn, allows for new very high-volume use cases in a cost-effective manner. While Flex Logs remains in limited availability, we are seeing a high level of interest from customers, many of whom want to retain logs for long-term purposes such as audit, security, and compliance. And we're pleased to see that with only a limited set of customers so far, Flex Logs already exceed $10 million in ARR today. In the digital experience area, we launched Mobile App Testing in general availability giving access to fast, no-code, reliable testing on mobile devices, which was a big challenge for customers given the wide range of devices and operating systems in use by consumers.
And in Cloud Cost Management, we've added full support for Google Cloud, so FinOps and DevOps teams can optimize their cloud spans across their AWS, Azure, and GCP footprint. Cloud cost management is another of our newer products that exceeds the $10 million ARR milestone, and we believe there are significantly more opportunities for us to help our customers there. As usual, I'd like to thank our product and engineering teams for the quarter, and I'm looking forward to the many announcements we'll make at our DASH conference in late June here in New York. Now, let's move on to sales and marketing. We've been pleased to once again add some exciting new customers and expand with many more.
So, let's go through a few examples. First, we signed a three-year seven-figure expansion with a leading online grocery business. This customer has used Datadog as their platform of choice for several years now, and as they migrate to Azure, they are looking to ensure reliability and security as they deploy at scale. With this renewal, they are adding cloud security management, application security management, and cloud theme to enable a shift to a DevSecOps culture in the organization. And this customer expects to add seven products for a total of 14 across the Datadog platform.
Next, in two deals, over the past six months, we had a seven-figure expansion with a medical device company. This customer was primarily using our infrastructure monitoring and APM suite, but its legacy logging solution was becoming cost-prohibitive while a lack of correlation across siloed teams was causing frustration and higher time to resolution. With this expansion, the customer plans to adopt nine products and consolidate its log management tool as well as four other commercial and cloud-native tools into Datadog. Next, we signed a high six-figure expansion with an athletic apparel company. This company had a dozen disparate monitoring tools which wasted time and was impacting operations, revenue, and customer experience. With this expansion, the company plans to consolidate out of four commercial and open-source point solutions. They also expect to save millions of dollars over the next several years while providing a great consumer experience.
Next, we signed a high six-figure expansion with a European division of one of the world's largest car makers. This customer has chosen Datadog as its observability vendor in many business units globally. And in Europe, they currently monitor about a quarter of their applications with us and are migrating hundreds of applications to fully move to Datadog in the next two years. With this expansion, this customer is using eight products in the Datadog platform.
Next, we signed a six-figure land with a division of a Fortune 500 industrial company. The company is moving its e-commerce application to Google Cloud. They felt that existing on-prem monitoring tools would not transition well to the cloud and are starting with three of our products as they are confident in their observability to keep innovating in modern cloud and serverless environments. Finally, we signed a six-figure land with one of the world's largest communication infrastructure companies. This company started a cloud migration a couple of years ago and found itself limited by fragmented tooling and lack of data correlation. In contrast, the Datadog Service Catalog gives them a single view for performance, ownership, security, SLOs, and KPIs, which this customer believes is a unique capability among the vendors it considered and which aligns with their goal of delivering centralized observability across the business. And this customer is adopting seven data products initially and consolidating out of four tools.
and that's it for another productive quarter from our go-to-market teams. Let me now say a few words on our longer-term outlook. Overall, we continue to see no change in the multiyear trend toward digital transformation and cloud migration. We are seeing improved usage growth with less impact from optimization than we had seen in the last few quarters. For those customers who are remaining cost-focused, we are very happy to help them get value from their observability solutions and consolidate into the Datadog platform to achieve time and cost savings. Meanwhile, we are seeing continued experimentation with new technologies, including a growing adoption of AI, which we believe will be an accelerator of technical innovation and cloud migration over time.
And we're working every day to innovate and help our customers adopt new technologies with confidence and become better businesses in the process. With that, I will turn it over to our CFO, David.
David Obstler -- Chief Financial Officer
Thanks, Olivier. Q1 revenue was $611 million, up 27% year over year and up 4% quarter over quarter. To dive into some of the drivers of the Q1 performance, first, regarding usage growth. In Q1, we saw sequential usage growth from existing customers that was higher than the usage growth in Q4.
Q1 usage growth was similar to what we experienced in Q2 and Q3 of 2022. And given this growth and off a larger base, our sequential ARR dollars added was the highest since Q4 2021. During Q1, we experienced a linearity pattern that was very typical for us, which included usage growth in March that was higher than January and February. Regarding usage growth by customer size in Q1, we saw usage growth accelerate across our larger customers, those with $100,000 of annual spend or higher. And we saw particularly strong usage growth with our largest customers who spend multiple millions of dollars with us annually.
Geographically, we experienced stronger year-over-year revenue growth in international markets than in North America. And finally, for our retention metrics, our trailing 12-month net revenue retention was in the mid-100s in Q1 -- sorry, in the mid-100 and 10s in Q1, similar to last quarter. Our trailing 12-month gross revenue retention continues to be stable in the mid to high 90s. Now, moving on to our financial results. Billings were $618 million, up 21% year over year. Billings duration increased year over year.
Sequential billings growth was seasonally lower, as it was in Q1 2023. Remaining performance obligations, or RPO, was $1.73 billion, up 52% year over year, and current RPO growth was in the low 40% growth year over year. RPO duration increased year over year but was down quarter over quarter as we saw fewer multiyear deals relative to last quarter. In general, we are continuing to see an increasing interest with our larger customers in multiyear commitments, which results in longer RPO duration in both total and current RPO. As a reminder, our RPO has been and continues to be lumpy, an effect that may be amplified as our customers move toward multiyear deals. We continue to believe revenue is a better indication of our business trends than billings and RPO as those can fluctuate relative to revenue based on the timing of invoicing and the duration of customer contracts.
Now, let's review some key income statement results. Unless otherwise noted, all metrics are non-GAAP. We have provided a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financials in our earnings release. First, gross profit in the quarter was $509 million, representing a gross margin of 83.3%. This compares to a gross margin of 83.4% last quarter and 80.5% in the year-ago quarter.
We continue to experience efficiencies in cloud costs reflected in our cost of goods sold as our engineering teams pursue cost savings and efficiency projects. Our Q1 opex grew 14% year over year and increased from 10% year-over-year growth last quarter. As discussed last quarter, we intend to invest in headcount in 2024, and we have accelerated hiring in sales and marketing and R&D to execute on our growth plans. Q1 operating income was $164 million or 27% operating margin, compared to 28% last quarter and 18% in the year-ago quarter. And now, turning to the balance sheet and cash flow statements, we ended the quarter with $2.8 billion in cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities. Cash flow from operations was $212 million in the quarter.
After taking into consideration capital expenditures and capitalized software, free cash flow was $187 million for a free cash flow margin of 31%. Now, for our outlook for the second quarter and the fiscal year 2024. Our guidance philosophy remains unchanged. As a reminder, we based our guidance on trends observed in recent months and apply conservativism on these growth trends. So, for the second quarter, we expect revenue to be in the range of $620 million to $624 million, which represents a 22% year-over-year growth.
Non-GAAP operating income is expected to be in the range of $134 million to $138 million, which implies an operating margin of 22%. In Q2, we will be holding our DASH user conference, which we estimate to cost about $11 million. Our operating income guidance reflects this event. Non-GAAP net income per share is expected to be $0.34 to $0.36 per share based on approximately 360 million weighted average diluted shares outstanding. For fiscal year 2024, we expect revenue to be in the range of $2.59 billion to $2.61 billion, which represents 22% to 23% year-over-year growth. Non-GAAP operating income is expected to be in the range of $585 million to $605 million, which implies an operating margin of 23%.
And non-GAAP net income per share is expected to be in the range of $1.51 to $1.57 per share based on approximately 361 million weighted average diluted shares outstanding. Now, for some additional notes on our guidance. First, we expect net interest income and other income together for fiscal 2024 to be approximately $110 million. Next, we expect cash taxes in 2024 to be in the $20 million to $25 million range, and we continue to apply a 21% non-GAAP tax rate for 2024 and going forward. And finally, we continue to expect capital expenditures and capitalized software together to be 3% to 4% of revenues in fiscal 2024.
To summarize, we are pleased with how we started 2024, and I want to thank Datadogs worldwide for their efforts. And now, with that, we will open the call for questions. Operator, let's begin the Q&A.
Questions & Answers:
Operator
Thank you. At this time, we'll conduct a question-and-answer session. [Operator instructions] Our first question comes from the line of Sanjit Singh of Morgan Stanley. Your line is now open.
Sanjit Singh -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Thank you for taking the questions. It was encouraging to see that usage trends continue to improve at least sequentially Q1 over Q4. We also wanted to see if you could put like the user trends change you're seeing in your business, in context of, like, the broader cloud landscape, and we're seeing some, you know, really nice results out of the hyperscalers. Obviously, you know, there's -- those are much larger businesses and in different -- can be in different product areas. But when we think about the tailwinds of, like, cloud migrations, and also AI workloads starting to -- to come on board, how does that -- how is that playing out in Datadog's business, versus what we may be seeing from, like, the hyperscalers who seem to be accelerating to a higher degree?
Olivier Pomel -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Yeah, hi, Sanjit. this is Olivier. So, I think the -- in general, the -- it's hard to be -- to draw a precise quarter by quarter one-to-one mapping between the revenue and the cloud providers and our revenue. I think you pointed out there are things in their products that don't relate to us directly or things that enter the revenue that don't relate to us directly. We have products that don't tie one to one with infrastructure on their end, but in general, over the longer term, we are very exposed to the growth trend you will see with the cloud providers.
And the correlation you've seen in the past between our businesses we expect will remain in some form in the future. We're also very exposed to the same tailwinds of obviously cloud migration but also AI adoption. And we'll say also on AI adoption that some of the revenue jumps you might see from the cloud providers might relate to supply of GPUs coming online and a lot of training clusters being provisioned. And those typically won't generate a lot of new usage for us. We tend to be more correlated with the live applications, products, and applications and inference workloads that tend to follow after that and that are more tied to all of these applications going into production. So, these are -- these are the things to factor, but overall, same trends, just not a one to one timing.
Sanjit Singh -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
That makes complete sense. I was wondering if you had any comments on how usage trends coming out of March would seem to be stronger than in the beginning of Q1, how that sort of played out in April.
David Obstler -- Chief Financial Officer
Sure. Hey, Sanjit, how are you? David here. As we -- we always say, we try to look into the next month, but that's a small time set. In this case, the April trends continue to exhibit higher sequential growth rates than the year-ago quarter.
But we -- you know, we caution everybody that one month does not a quarter make and we'll, you know, continue to update that next quarter as we report.
Olivier Pomel -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
And the seasonality in Q1, I would say, it's very usual. Every year, there's a drop around the holidays in Q1, in January, start slowly, and then it accelerates into -- into March. And we've seen that pretty much every single year so far, and we've seen it this year as well.
Sanjit Singh -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
I appreciate it. Thanks, Olivier. Thanks, David.
Operator
Thank you. One moment for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of Mark Murphy of J.P. Morgan.
Your line is now open.
Mark Murphy -- JPMorgan Chase and Company -- Analyst
Oh, thank you so much, and congratulations on the revenue acceleration during the quarter. Olivier, I'm wondering how commonly are customers in your gen AI cohort using Datadog to monitor for bias and hallucinations within their AI models as opposed to just keeping the systems running. And also, do you see more concentration of customers within that cohort, or is there actually more diversity as more of the models move beyond the training stage and into the inferencing stage?
Olivier Pomel -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Yeah, so we have product for monitoring, not just the infrastructure, but what the LLMS are doing. Those products are still not in GA, so, we're working with a smaller number of design partners for that. As not only these products are maturing, but also the industry around us is maturing and more of these applications are getting into production, you should expect to hear more from us on that topic in the -- in the near future. The -- the customers we have that are the most scaled on AI workloads are the model providers themselves, and they tend to have their own infrastructure for monitoring the quality of the models.
But we think they're a good bellwether in terms of what the adoption of AI is going to be from all the other companies. And we definitely see a trend where customers start with their API-driven or API-accessible model build applications and then offload some of that application to other models that typically come from the open source and they might -- they might train, fine-tune themselves to get to a lower cost and lower time to respond.
Mark Murphy -- JPMorgan Chase and Company -- Analyst
I understand. OK. And then, David, you had mentioned, I think last quarter, that the cloud-native spending had rebounded, it was outpacing the broader business. And just to clarify, are you saying that the traditional large enterprise business during Q1, you know, picked up in terms of the cloud migration activity as the hyperscalers might have suggested? Was that -- I'm just wondering if you could double-click on that comment and whether there was something, you know, really noticeable and tangible there among the large enterprise, more traditional businesses?
David Obstler -- Chief Financial Officer
Yeah, we saw -- we said we saw growth accelerate in our larger customers, including the larger cloud natives and enterprise. So, we did see more normal activity including new workloads in both of those cohorts.
Mark Murphy -- JPMorgan Chase and Company -- Analyst
Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. One moment for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of Kash Rangan of GS. Your line is now open.
Kash Rangan -- Goldman Sachs -- Analyst
So, good to go right after Mark. Congratulations to the team on very good results here. Olivier, I was wondering if you could talk about the consolidation trend that you're talking about. It looks like that the pace of consolidation and also the intensity of lands and expands seems to be a bit more remarkable at this starting point of this discovery. So, if you could expand on that a little bit.
And one for you, David. cRPO has been accelerating, I think it's low 20 to 30 to 40 over the last few quarters, but -- but revenue expectations have not edged up pretty significantly. So, can you just talk about the lead-lag effect? Granted that you always try to tell us that revenue is the best indicator, but nonetheless, it's hard to dismiss the cRPO acceleration we've seen off of the last three quarters. Thank you so much.
Olivier Pomel -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Yeah, so I let David speak about the -- the -- the cRPO dynamics, but they are -- we -- so, look, we've seen over the past couple of years really, but really the past few quarters, more consolidation than we've seen in the past, in part driven by customers wanting to being cost-conscious and wanting to save money, but in part also by customers getting a little bit further into their cloud migration and rationalizing what they're using as they do that. So, we keep seeing that. We've mentioned a number of those deals in the examples we've given. That's a large part of what our enterprise business is doing. In particular, there's no particular change in Q1 compared to what we've seen in Q4 before.
You know, Q1 is -- we typically do a lot of larger deals in Q1 in Q4 compared to Q1 seasonally in general. To the point you made earlier, we do see typically a bit of a lag between these big consolidation deals at the moment where we see our revenue recognized. Typically, when consolidate products, what we'll see is we'll assume the ramp time for moving usage from other products to our platform over what can be a number of quarters or even years sometimes, and it might take some time for those deals to -- for those numbers to materialize in the -- in the revenue. On the flip side, we also have a number of deals where customers are growing very quickly into their usage and we capture new commitments with them that might lag a little bit their -- their consumption and the revenue we recognize. So, we see a little bit of both.
David, you want to speak a little bit more?
David Obstler -- Chief Financial Officer
Sure. And similar to what we said last time, we are seeing our customers, particularly our larger customers, commit longer to us. That can be multiyear deals or even out toward the weighted average toward annual deals as opposed to, you know, shorter-term deals. So, basically, it is a positive in that it does connote that clients are committing to Datadog more as their core platform.
It is a trend that we're seeing particularly in larger customers, but we repeat what we said that really how we contract and bill is not necessarily one to one correlated with our -- our revenues; our revenues are correlated with our usage. So, it's a positive, but I think that we want to keep everybody grounded on our revenues as the most important metric, and then, secondarily, our ARR as predicting future revenue growth.
Kash Rangan -- Goldman Sachs -- Analyst
Wonderful. Thank you so much and congrats.
David Obstler -- Chief Financial Officer
Yeah.
Operator
Thank you. One moment for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of Raimo Lenschow of Barclays. Your line is now open.
Raimo Lenschow -- Barclays -- Analyst
Thank you. Going back to the workload migration, that seems to be kicking back in again from listening to the hyperscalers. And you talked about the timing difference there. I wanted to kind of ask on a different aspect here, and that's kind of your sales capacity and the ramp and sales capacity that we should think about it.
Like, can you speak about, like, where you are at the moment in terms of capacity? And then, as the market accelerates, like, what sort of investments should we think about there? Thank you.
Olivier Pomel -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
So, we're -- we're growing sales capacity. We've been growing it, you know, for the past few years. We grew it a little bit slower mostly last year as we -- we were careful about profitability and not getting too far ahead of ourselves in what looked like a tough market, but we're definitely growing sales capacity. And there's a -- there's a model that is associated with that. So, the capacity typically lags a little bit the -- the -- the growth in terms of head count as it takes time for people to be productive.
But we're investing, we're growing.
David Obstler -- Chief Financial Officer
Yeah, long-term sales capacity is -- is very much calibrated to revenue and ARR growth. As Ollie mentioned, there are periods where it will move higher than that as we make investments, and there's periods where, you know, we might optimize. I think last year was a period where we digested previous investments optimized a bit, and we said this year, we're leaning into the expansion of our sales capacity and investment. But long term, it correlates with revenue. And we look at that.
We look at, do we have enough sales capacity relative to what we see as the demand in the market, the territories, and the expected ARR growth/
Olivier Pomel -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
To give you just a tiny bit more color, like, one of the big areas of focus inside the company is ramping up recruiting again, you know. So, we're recruiting a lot faster, a lot more than we were last year. And so, we had to rev up that that recruiting engine. Again, I won't -- I won't -- I think if they're listening to us, I want to congratulate our business recruiting team there for doing a fantastic job really bringing that engine back up.
Raimo Lenschow -- Barclays -- Analyst
Perfect. Thank you. That's really encouraging.
Operator
Thank you. One moment for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of Matt Hedberg of RBC. Your line is now open.
Matt Hedberg -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst
Great. Thanks for taking my questions, guys. You know, Ollie, you mentioned newer products continue to do really, really well. You gave some interesting data on database monitoring, for instance.
I'm wondering are these newer products resonating up and down your customer base, or are these -- you know, some of these cross-sell statistics stronger with some of your bigger customers?
Olivier Pomel -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Yeah, so, it really depends on the product. Some products are extremely broad-based in terms of their appeal, and some others are really more directed at certain types of customers. You know, for example, all products that have to do with monitoring physical networks. They tend to be more appealing to larger older enterprises because they're the ones with large physical footprints, whereas products like cloud cost management, for example, or even database monitoring, have very, very broad appeal because every single customer cares about their cloud cost and every single customer is using databases that are at the center of their applications, and that are absolutely critical to understand. And we mentioned those products because really, like, we see that as the -- our efforts are paying off in terms of broadening the offering and investing in R&D.
And these are greenshoots that we expect to grow into the future. You know, some of those products we have extremely high expectations for growth because they correspond to very large categories which we can think can be very meaningful to the business in the long run. Some others are surprising us a little bit. That's why we mentioned database monitoring. We were not sure if it was going to be a huge category in cloud environment, but it turns out, not only is there a very big problem of our customers need us to solve there, but also this product hit that problem on the -- on the head on -- from day one really. And we expect -- now we expect a lot more from it.
Matt Hedberg -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst
Got it. Thanks a lot. Congrats on the results, guys.
Operator
Thank you. One moment for next question. Our next question comes from the line of Fatima Boolani of Citi. Your line is now open.
Fatima Boolani -- Citi -- Analyst
Good morning. Thank you for taking my questions. David, you explicitly mentioned that the international book of business and activity was stronger than domestic. So, I wanted to better understand some of the more intrinsic and extrinsic dynamics that are driving that divergence in terms of geographic theater performance. And if you could sort of help us understand if it's an end market, a product-based or -- or a budgetary-based set of distinctions, that would be very helpful.
Thank you.
David Obstler -- Chief Financial Officer
Yeah, it's very similar to what we've been saying over time, the international markets have been more immature as to their cloud migrations and their deployment of digital applications than the North American markets. And we've been more immature in terms of our footprint. So, we've talked about some examples in Investor Day and otherwise of places like Brazil and Korea, to name just a couple, where we are seeing an increase of activity as well as an increase of our deployment of our capacity, which has resulted in an uptick of international demand over time.
Olivier Pomel -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Yeah, for us to be successful, there are two factors that are -- that are needed. So, the first one is cloud adoption needs to happen because we can't outrun it really. And the second one is we need to deploy sales capacity and grow sales capacity. And that's really a combination of the two.
In most markets today, cloud adoption is happening. The sale may be a few holdouts that are a bit slower, and -- but we're not yet deploying enough sales capacity everywhere, and that's one of our big areas of focus as I mentioned earlier.
Fatima Boolani -- Citi -- Analyst
Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. One moment for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of Brent Thill of Jefferies. Your line is now open.
Brent Thill -- Jefferies -- Analyst
Good morning. David, good margins, 27%, but you're guiding the full year to '23. I know you mentioned you're stepping on the sales investments, but anything else that's coming into the investment mix this year that is different than we've seen in past years to drive that margin lower throughout the year?
David Obstler -- Chief Financial Officer
It's sales and R&D investment. We are -- you know, we have both the sales capacity and the whole ecosystem that we've been talking about. And, you know, as Ollie often says, we have more high-return product projects than we always have capacity and are, you know, attempting to make the appropriate investments. So, it's really that we are layering in. We all said all along that this can't be changed.
Head count can't be changed as quickly as revenues. So, we have periods where we're investing more than revenue growth or less. And this year is a one where we're coming from a more conservative posture of last year into more investment in both R&D and sales and marketing. There's nothing one-time or special it relates to both sales capacity and R&D projects. Ollie, anything else?
Olivier Pomel -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Yeah. Again, I mean I bring it back to what I was saying earlier that a big focus internally is recruiting and making sure that we go fast enough there. I will say one more thing. Last year, when the market was slowing down, most of our peers have laid off their recruiting teams and we didn't do that because we knew we needed to -- our success will depend on revving the engine back up and growing the engineering and sales team fast enough for us to go after the gigantic market opportunity we have. So, we're very happy we haven't done that, but we still have a lot of work to do to recruit enough of the right people fast enough.
David Obstler -- Chief Financial Officer
I'd add, as we always have said that we have a very efficient, scalable market business, and we, you know, control the pace of our investments. And we, at the same time that we're investing, we've been investing in efficiency projects, like we talked about, in the cloud to balance those things to deliver a strong profitability posture with strong investment.
Brent Thill -- Jefferies -- Analyst
David, can I just ask a quick clarification on commitment overage and usage? I think you had a roughly 75-25% split across, you know, commit coverage and usage. Is that -- is that still in the same ballpark?
David Obstler -- Chief Financial Officer
Yeah, it's -- I think we said it's been in the range of sort of upper teens to mid-20s over time. But that type of posture of clients under committing and evolving into their usage hasn't changed over time. So, it -- that is still in the range that we've talked about since we went public.
Brent Thill -- Jefferies -- Analyst
Great, thanks.
David Obstler -- Chief Financial Officer
Thanks.
Operator
Thank you. One moment for the next question. Our next question comes from the line of Jake Roberge of William Blair. Your line is now open.
Jake Roberge -- William Blair and Company -- Analyst
Hey, thanks for taking the questions, and great to hear that AI-native customers represented 3.5% of ARR. I'm curious, though, what you're seeing on the demand front for your own AI products like AIOps and cloud service management. And then, you mentioned that the model providers have built their own tools to monitor the training of their models. As you start to roll out your own LLM oservability solutions, do you see that trend changing? And is that something that customers have been asking you to build?
Olivier Pomel -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
So, on the first question, so we -- so, look, we see a lot of interest in these new products. These are new products, though, you know, so we just announced in GA the event management product, which is the -- the main missing building block we had for full AIOps platform. And we -- we also just released into -- into GA build for incident management. So, there's a lot of demand for it. The products are -- actually, I will say, for Bits, for instant management, it's a joy to use.
So, that's -- that's great. But you should also expect to hear more from us on that topic in the -- in the next couple of months. So, this is all very exciting. On the -- the tooling, I would say there's a -- there's a handful of players that have been building that tooling for a few years for it -- in a way that's very specialized to what they do internally.
They're not necessarily very representative of the bulk of the market. So, in those situations, we're always careful about overfitting products to a group that might not be the right target customer group in the end. You know, in the same way that building infrastructure monitoring for the -- the cloud providers to use internally, you know, might be -- might not be an exact fit for the -- the rest of the world needs. That being said, I mean look, we -- we work a lot with those companies, and they -- they have a number of needs that some of them they can meet internally and some of them they don't. And if I go back to the example of hyperscalers, we actually have teams at the hyperscalers that use us for application or infrastructure or logs internally, even though they've built a lot of that tooling themselves.
So, I think everything's possible in the long run, but our focus is really on the -- the -- the vast majority of the customer base that's going to either use those API-based products or tune and run their own models.
Operator
Thank you. One moment for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of Karl Keirstead of UBS. Your line is now open.
Karl Keirstead -- UBS -- Analyst
OK, great. Maybe two. Olivier, could you give a little context to the president stepping down into the board seat? He's obviously been there a long time and has been a big part of the Datadog story. And then, for David, you've done a great job over the years dissuading us from overindexing on DR and billings. But as you actually pointed out, the sequential decline in DR and billings was quite a bit larger than normal and just curious if there's a story there. Thank you.
Olivier Pomel -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Yeah, so I'll start with Amit, our president. So, Amit wanted to stop working as a full-time operator but wants to stay close to the company and we want to stay close to him too. I mean, it's been, as you pointed out, a big part of the Datadog story, and we definitely want to keep him involved in the company and -- and keep working with him. So, the plan is for him to join the board. You should expect him to maybe reappear at some point as a -- as a VC investor, something that's less operational than what he's doing today.
And we expect him to be a part of the company for the -- for the future as well. I always say that I will miss him every day in the office. David, you want to comment on DR?
David Obstler -- Chief Financial Officer
Yeah. Now, to the more mundane topic of buildings, so yeah, I think that we did see a decel. We had a very strong Q4 in terms of commitments to us, which manifests itself in billings. We talked about the larger customers committing to multiyear deals and, you know.
committing to us. We do have a sequential factor not in our revenues, which are based on usage must, but basically in our billings and operations like that, usually, in Q1, as clients sort of commit. So, in some ways, we don't have the seasonality to speak of in the revenues. But like we talked about in billings and RPO, we do have variations in billings.
We're not reading that much into it, and that, you know, overall, weighted, it's going to vary. And we point everyone back toward ARR and revenues but acknowledge that seasonality may have been a little more pronounced in this cycle than in the previous one.
Karl Keirstead -- UBS -- Analyst
Got it. Thank you both.
Operator
Thank you. One moment for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of Brad Reback of Stifel. Your line is now open.
Brad Reback -- Stifel Financial Corp -- Analyst
Great. Thanks very much. Ollie, one of the fastest ways to recruit quickly is via larger acquisitions. So, maybe you give us your thoughts on potentially going a little bigger here given that you're generating close to $1 billion of OCS a year right now. Thanks.
Olivier Pomel -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Yeah, so look, everything's on the table for us, like we -- we're very busy on the M & A side. We have a team that is, at any point in time. reviewing multiple deals. And everything is possible.
I would say the larger the acquisition, the -- the less likely it is to happen because we're extremely selective, in terms of not only the economics of any deal but also the fit and whether we think it's truly going to accelerate off in the mid to long term. But everything is possible. We -- we are very fortunate to have a very efficient business, as we pointed out, that is generating quite a bit of cash now, and that opens a number of doors for us. And we -- we fully intend to use that if we have the right opportunity.
Brad Reback -- Stifel Financial Corp -- Analyst
Great. Thank you very much.
Operator
Thank you. One moment for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of Koji Ikeda of Bank of America Securities. Your line is now open.
Koji Ikeda -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst
Hey, guys. Thank you so much for the question here. I wanted to ask a question on AI. you mentioned in the prepared remarks about 3.5% of ARR. Last quarter, about 3%.
So, it looks like the trend is about plus 50 basis points a quarter right now. So, really great to see the ongoing expansion there. So, from a big-picture perspective, in your view, what needs to happen for this metric to start expanding, say one, two, three points a quarter?
Olivier Pomel -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
I mean, look, it's -- so, first of all, I'm not sure this is a metric we'll keep bringing up. You know, I mean it was interesting for us to look at this small group of early native companies to get a sense of what might come next in the world of AI. But I think as we -- as -- as we -- as time goes by and as AI adoption broadens, I think it becomes less and less relevant. But the one thing I will say is we -- we try to compare our exposure to AI to what we see from the hyperscalers because they are upstream from us, you know, in that respect.
The hyperscaler that is the most open about it is -- or transparent in terms of numbers is Microsoft as they disclose how much of their growth comes from AI, you know, more specifically. And I will say that if you compare our business to -- to -- to theirs, the Azure part of our business is growing faster than Azure itself. And the AI-driven part of our Azure business itself is also growing faster than what you see on the -- on the overall Azure numbers. So, we think we have similar exposure, and we track to the same trends broadly. The other cloud providers are not as forthcoming with metrics, so it's harder to do a direct comparison. But, you know, in the longer term, we expect the -- the same trends to apply.
Koji Ikeda -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst
Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. One moment for the next question. Our next question comes from the line of Peter Weed of Bernstein. Your line is now open.
Peter Weed -- AllianceBernstein -- Analyst
Thank you very much. You know, one of the things that jumped out at me is, you know, you saw some improvement in net new customer adds quarter over quarter, you know, kind of for the first time maybe over the last year or so, which is, you know, pretty exciting. Obviously, I know there's a long-tail effect with this. But, you know, as you look at that, do you see that as kind of a reflection of momentum in kind of the larger enterprise or rebound and kind of the digital native venture-backed community, you know, perhaps from that born in AI? And if you think of that pipeline going forward, should we anticipate kind of this bottoming and strength to continue and maybe accelerate?
Olivier Pomel -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
So, I mean -- yes, the number of customers going up faster than it was the past few quarters. I would say it's hard to read too much into it because we have a large number of smaller customers, and there's more variability into the number of those smaller customers we get and we lose at any point in time and without really having a very large impact on the business. So, I wouldn't read too much into that. I will say that the trends are all in customer acquisition and retention are good.
Another number we reported on which I think is a -- is worth mentioning is we saw also a higher number of customers above $100,000 cross that mark -- cross the mark of $100,000 in revenue. And that's a return to the mean of what we had seen before. I think last quarter, that number was a little bit lower, and it really shows, you know, what we're seeing in the last quarter, which is that customers are growing on that revenue curve. And sometimes there are little peaks and valleys in that distribution of customers across the revenue curve for us.
But overall, the motion is still the same. Customers are planning with us more and they're growing and they're getting bigger. And as a result, we're getting a larger and larger number of customers above, you know, $100,000 and above million and outdriving the majority of our revenue.
Peter Weed -- AllianceBernstein -- Analyst
Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. One moment for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of Eric Heath of KeyBanc. Your line is now open.
Eric Heath -- KeyBanc Capital Markets -- Analyst
Hey, thank you. In your prepared remarks, I don't think you talked too much on security. And just given we're out here at RSA this week, was curious if you could talk about traction you're seeing there. And then, maybe any feedback on adoption trends following the new packaging you rolled out a couple quarters ago?
Olivier Pomel -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Yeah, so the -- the -- we -- so far, the news are pretty good on the -- these new packages. Again, we want to wait to have seen them in the market for a few quarters before we comment too much on those. But the uptake is good. They seem to resonate well with customers, correspond to the right need, and they're fairly easy to insert into the -- to the sales process. So, all that are good news so far.
I realize we didn't -- we didn't put too much in the script on -- on security. We have -- we actually have a few things coming out. There's a -- there's RSA this week in San Francisco, and our team in there -- is there to -- to meet with customers. One of the new pieces of functionality we've announced last week was a agentless scanning for -- for infrastructure security products, which we think is going to -- to help a lot of customers deploy our product much more broadly, much, much more quickly. So, we're very excited about that.
It's a -- it's in beta right now. And yeah, so overall, the same trends we commented on last quarters are still true. You know, thousands of customers onboarding on security, revenue growth, growth on a number of different pillars at the same time, which is very exciting and really speaks to our platform approach for security as well.
Eric Heath -- KeyBanc Capital Markets -- Analyst
Thanks, Ollie.
Operator
Thank you. One moment for next question. Our next question comes from the line of Andrew Nowinski of Wells Fargo. Your line is now open.
Andy Nowinski -- Wells Fargo Securities -- Analyst
OK, I had a question on guidance for Q2. You had -- you had strong net new ARR in Q1, and you said you're seeing improved usage growth and less optimization. But, you know, based on your Q2 revenue guidance, it looks like you're assuming net new ARR in Q2 declines pretty significantly. I guess did you have some deals that pulled into Q1? And if not, why would net new ARR in Q2 be down year over year?
David Obstler -- Chief Financial Officer
No, I mean, we -- we -- it's the same thing that we've said in every quarter that our guidance is taking the trends both in terms of usage growth and new business accumulation, and it discounts them. And that's exactly the same as we said since we've been a public company. So, that's what we do in providing the guidance and continue to do that in this quarter.
Andy Nowinski -- Wells Fargo Securities -- Analyst
All right. I'm wondering if you're seeing any sort of uptick in consolidation in the log management and SIEM markets given the M&A activity in that space.
Olivier Pomel -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Yes, there are definitely opportunities there. And so, we spoke on the -- I think the -- in the script on the -- about some of the advanced query functionalities we're adding to logs. We spoke about lex logs. So, those are all geared toward going after this opportunity.
And we think also there's -- more specifically an opportunity around SIEM workloads, which is why we're investing heavily in our cloud SIM product. And so, we think there's definitely a lot of opportunities there, and the teams are very focused on that. I don't expect these opportunities to make a big dent in our numbers in the next couple of quarters, but in the next year or so, definitely we -- we expect to see more.
Andy Nowinski -- Wells Fargo Securities -- Analyst
Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. One moment for the next question. Our next question comes from the line of Mike Cikos of Needham. Your line is now open.
Mike Cikos -- Needham and Company -- Analyst
Hey, thanks for getting me on the call here, guys. Just one topic, a bit of a two-parter here, but I think at the prepared remarks, management had cited improving trends for the number of -- or the cohort of customers who are moving past optimization sequentially. So, I guess the question is really can -- can you help us think about the rate or pace of customers that are moving into this cohort, is the first piece of the question. And then, the second piece, what kind of assumptions do you have for sustained improvement or additional customers entering that cohort as we think about the guidance that we have here today? I'm wondering, how much needs to happen on that front for you guys to -- to get more comfortable with the guidance? Or are you guys assuming steady state here and anything else is -- is kind of really just upside? Thank you.
David Obstler -- Chief Financial Officer
Yeah, no, we said that we don't provide guidance on the percentage of customers that are in this cohort. We just are commenting that. The trends that we mentioned last quarter of the abatement of optimization, in this cohort, manifested itself again and they continue to grow. Like always, our guidance provides -- it takes conservative assumptions. And, you know, looks across the trends in the business and, you know, assumes that there would be more conservative drivers of the business than we've had in the last quarters.
So, we continue with that methodology.
Olivier Pomel -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
And. look, we mentioned that cohort because we thought it was a bellwether, right? We thought they were the first to really optimize and they felt their -- they exhibited all the -- the highest needs, I would say, for a quick turnaround on their own financial profile. But there are other pockets of optimization in the business. There are other customers that are going through that later. There are -- customers are still going through it.
It's an ongoing -- it's going to be an ongoing phenomenon. It's been throughout the history of the company. So, as we get further and further from the macro situation last year -- from last year, I think this cohort will lose in relevance in terms of its what we can read into it for the rest of the business.
Mike Cikos -- Needham and Company -- Analyst
Understood. Thank you for the additional color, guys.
Olivier Pomel -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. This concludes the question-and-answer session. I will now like to turn it back to CEO, Olivier Pomel, for closing remarks.
Olivier Pomel -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
All right. Thank you. So, again, I want to thank the whole team for what was a great quarter. And I know many of our customers and users are listening to the earnings call.
So, I want to make sure everybody knows we're having our DASH conference in June in New York. You can go to dashcon.io, and we really look forward to seeing you there. So, thank you all.
David Obstler -- Chief Financial Officer
Thank you.
Operator
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Call participants:
Yuka Broderick -- Vice President, Investor Relations
Olivier Pomel -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
David Obstler -- Chief Financial Officer
Sanjit Singh -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Mark Murphy -- JPMorgan Chase and Company -- Analyst
Kash Rangan -- Goldman Sachs -- Analyst
Raimo Lenschow -- Barclays -- Analyst
Matt Hedberg -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst
Fatima Boolani -- Citi -- Analyst
Brent Thill -- Jefferies -- Analyst
Jake Roberge -- William Blair and Company -- Analyst
Karl Keirstead -- UBS -- Analyst
Brad Reback -- Stifel Financial Corp -- Analyst
Koji Ikeda -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst
Peter Weed -- AllianceBernstein -- Analyst
Eric Heath -- KeyBanc Capital Markets -- Analyst
Andy Nowinski -- Wells Fargo Securities -- Analyst
Mike Cikos -- Needham and Company -- Analyst
