Select Star

Data discovery and metadata management platform acquired by Datadog

Select Star is a data discovery and automated metadata management platform designed to help data teams and organizations understand, trust, and effectively use their data. The company provides tools that automatically catalog data assets, track data lineage, identify popular datasets, and help teams discover relevant data across their organization's data infrastructure. The platform integrates with modern data stacks including data warehouses, BI tools, and orchestration platforms to provide comprehensive visibility into data usage and relationships. Select Star serves data-driven organizations that need to manage growing data complexity, improve data governance, and enable self-service analytics. The platform addresses common challenges such as finding the right data, understanding data context, identifying data owners, and ensuring data quality. By automating metadata collection and providing intelligent search and discovery capabilities, Select Star helps reduce the time data teams spend answering questions about data and increases overall data productivity. The company operates in the data infrastructure and governance space, competing with other data catalog and metadata management solutions. Select Star was acquired by Datadog in 2024, bringing its data discovery and lineage capabilities into Datadog's broader observability and monitoring platform.