Datadog partner in Spain —
for Barcelona's high-growth tech companies and Madrid's large-scale financial operators.

Barcelona scale-up observability debt

Glovo scaled from a Barcelona start-up to operating in 25 countries in under a decade. Wallapop went from classifieds app to European recommerce platform. Factorial expanded from Spanish HRtech to European SaaS. Each accumulated observability debt at the same rate they accumulated engineers. Critical Cloud's HealthScan audits the current Datadog estate and Catalyst delivers the improvements — defined scope, specific outputs, knowledge that stays in the engineering team.

Madrid financial sector under DORA

Telefónica runs global technology infrastructure from Madrid; BBVA's digital banking products operate across Spain and LatAm; Santander's technology division manages regulatory-grade platform engineering at scale. From January 2025, DORA requires all of them to demonstrate ICT operational resilience to CNMV and Banco de España. Critical Cloud structures Datadog for DORA compliance evidence — not just dashboards, but the documentation frameworks the regulation demands.

AEPD and EU data residency

The Agencia Española de Protección de Datos is one of the EU's most enforcement-active data protection authorities and was involved in some of the GDPR's highest-profile investigations. For Spanish regulated buyers, EU data residency via the Datadog EU site is the correct default — all operational telemetry stays in Frankfurt (eu-central-1), with no US data transfers and no Standard Contractual Clauses needed for AEPD scrutiny.

EMEA expansion coverage

Spanish companies expanding across Europe and LatAm need an observability partner who covers the full expansion path. Critical Cloud's EMEA coverage — UK, Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, and growing — means Spanish companies entering new markets get the same Datadog standards, the same EU data residency, and the same partner relationship in each new country. One MSP, consistent standards, from Barcelona to Berlin.