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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.

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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.

DORA 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.

Distributed 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.

Lithuanian 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."

EU 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.

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.

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.

Delivered work

Datadog engagements demonstrating the compliance-structured standards applied to Lithuanian deployments.

OPX — Datadog for complex Azure

Full-stack visibility and monitoring standards applied across a platform migration.

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CETA — production Datadog on schedule

FETCH™ and HyperCare™ — defined scope, defined timeline, working Datadog.

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EIP — standardised across teams

HyperCare™ across 140+ services with automation and distributed team enablement.

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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.

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