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Datadog Partner · Lithuania
Datadog partner in Lithuania-
where DORA compliance and the EU's FinTech licensing hub demand operational-grade observability.
Lithuania holds Revolut's EU banking licence and hosts a rapidly growing cluster of EU-regulated FinTechs in Vilnius. From January 2025, DORA requires them to demonstrate continuous operational resilience across their technology infrastructure, not just to have monitoring in place, but to generate compliance evidence that satisfies Bank of Lithuania and EBA review.
Critical Cloud is the world's first Powered by Datadog accredited MSP. Datadog, structured correctly for DORA, is the evidence platform that Lithuanian financial entities need and we know how to configure it for that specific requirement. EU data residency as standard for all Lithuanian deployments.
World's first
Powered by Datadog MSP
DORA
from Jan 2025
EU data
residency by default
Vilnius
FinTech hub coverage
Lithuanian FinTech regulatory context
Why DORA makes Datadog a compliance requirement in Lithuania's financial sector.
- Revolut EU banking licence, held from Lithuania. DORA applies from January 2025, making operational resilience evidence a regulatory obligation.
- Bank of Lithuania supervision, supervises the growing cluster of EU-licensed FinTechs. DORA compliance is a supervisory expectation.
- DORA: not just monitoring, DORA requires ICT incident classification, resilience testing records, and third-party risk documentation. Datadog generates this; CC structures it correctly.
- EU data residency, Lithuanian GDPR enforcement. Datadog EU site (Frankfurt) satisfies transfer requirements for EU-licensed entities.
Why Lithuanian tech teams choose Critical Cloud
Four reasons specific to Lithuania's positioning as the EU's FinTech licensing hub and a growing CEE technology centre.
01DORA compliance for EU-licensed FinTech
Revolut, Paysera, Nium, and the broader cluster of EU-licensed financial entities operating from Lithuania must demonstrate DORA compliance from January 2025. DORA requires documented ICT operational resilience: incident classification and logging, resilience testing records, third-party ICT risk management, and operational continuity evidence. Critical Cloud structures Datadog deployments to generate exactly this evidence, configured for Bank of Lithuania and EBA supervisory review.
02Distributed engineering across CEE
Lithuanian tech companies and nearshoring operations run engineering teams across Vilnius, Warsaw, Riga, and other CEE locations. Consistent observability across distributed teams is harder than it looks: tagging standards drift, ownership mapping gaps appear between team boundaries, and dashboards diverge. Critical Cloud implements Datadog standards that hold across distributed engineering organisations, with EMEA-wide coverage as the company scales.
03Lithuanian tech scale-ups and observability debt
Kevin (payments infrastructure), Nord Security (cybersecurity), and Vinted (marketplace platform) have all scaled from Lithuanian startups to European market leaders. Each accumulated observability debt as their engineering teams grew faster than their platform standards. Critical Cloud's HealthScan audits and Catalyst engineering service are designed for exactly this transition, from "we have Datadog" to "Datadog works at our current scale."
04EU data residency for regulated deployments
Lithuanian FinTechs operating EU banking and payment licences must demonstrate appropriate ICT risk management under DORA. EU data residency via Datadog's EU site (Frankfurt, eu-central-1) eliminates cross-border transfer risk and supports DORA's third-party ICT service provider requirements, operational telemetry stays in the EU, processed under GDPR, with no transfer risk for the Bank of Lithuania or EBA to scrutinise.
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Services
Services available in Lithuania
DORA-structured Datadog implementation to ongoing managed operations, for Vilnius FinTech and the broader Lithuanian tech community.
Adopt
DORA-ready from day one
FETCH™, HyperCare™, and LaunchPad™, with DORA-appropriate logging standards, EU data residency, and ICT incident classification configured from the start.
Optimise
Generate compliance evidence
HealthScan™ assessment and Catalyst engineering, for Lithuanian FinTechs that have Datadog deployed but need it structured for DORA compliance review.
Manage
Ongoing resilience
Critical Support for 24×7 DORA-aligned incident management and Managed Datadog for continuous platform operations, sustaining operational resilience evidence continuously.
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How we work
What a good Datadog partner looks like
Five principles and the five criteria DORA itself implicitly requires from ICT service providers to supervised financial entities.
01
Transparency
Full access to your Datadog environment. For DORA, transparent ICT operations are a regulatory expectation, not just good practice.
02
Ownership
Approved work is completed. Partial compliance implementations are compliance failures under DORA's documentation requirements.
03
Collaboration
One plan across platform, security, and compliance. DORA explicitly requires ICT risk management to be integrated, not siloed.
04
Enablement
Internal capability transfer. DORA requires financial entities to maintain internal oversight of ICT, we build your team's capacity, not dependence on ours.
05
Integration
Tied to operational resilience, compliance, and reliability outcomes, the metrics Bank of Lithuania and EBA measure.
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Case studies
Delivered work
Datadog engagements demonstrating the compliance-structured standards applied to Lithuanian deployments.
CETA
CETA, production Datadog on schedule
FETCH™ and HyperCare™, defined scope, defined timeline, working Datadog.
EIP
EIP, standardised across teams
HyperCare™ across 140+ services with automation and distributed team enablement.
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FAQ
FAQ
Questions from Lithuanian FinTech and technology teams evaluating a Datadog MSP.
How does Datadog support DORA compliance for Lithuania-based financial services firms?
DORA requires ICT incident classification and reporting, operational resilience evidence, resilience testing records, and third-party ICT risk documentation. Critical Cloud configures Datadog deployments to generate exactly this evidence, audit-ready logging standards, monitor coverage documentation, and incident response workflows that satisfy Bank of Lithuania and EBA supervisory review under DORA.
Do you support Datadog across distributed engineering teams?
Yes. Lithuanian tech companies and nearshoring hubs run engineering operations across multiple locations. Critical Cloud implements Datadog with consistent standards across distributed teams, shared tagging, unified ownership mapping, and observability that holds regardless of where engineers are working. We have EMEA-wide coverage for companies scaling across the region.
Can you help with the operational resilience requirements DORA introduces?
Yes. DORA requires financial entities to demonstrate operational resilience, not just to have monitoring in place. Critical Cloud structures Datadog for DORA: documented incident classification, alert coverage reports, resilience testing records, and third-party service documentation. We understand DORA's technical requirements and build deployments that satisfy them.
Is EU data residency available for Lithuanian FinTech buyers?
Yes. Datadog EU site (Frankfurt, eu-central-1) stores all data within the EU. For Lithuanian FinTechs under GDPR and operating EU licences, EU data residency satisfies transfer requirements and supports DORA's third-party ICT risk management documentation requirements, no cross-border transfer risk for Bank of Lithuania to scrutinise.
Ready to work with Critical Cloud in Lithuania?
DORA-structured Datadog deployments for Vilnius FinTech and Lithuanian tech companies. EU data residency, operational resilience evidence, and the world's first Powered by Datadog accreditation. Book a call.