SaaS
Datadog
CoScreen, the multi-cursor screen-sharing tool Datadog acquired, is discontinued entirely
departs 31 Jul 2026
What this means for you
CoScreen is a desktop collaboration tool: several people share windows into one session and each gets their own live cursor and keyboard, which is why pairing and incident-response teams picked it over ordinary screen sharing. It stops entirely on 31 July 2026 — not a feature removal, the product. If it is part of how your team debugs production together, that workflow needs a replacement inside a week, and none of the obvious substitutes reproduce the multi-cursor part.
Where to go
Datadog names no successor product and no migration path in the notice, and points users with transition questions at support. Nothing in the notice suggests functionality moves into the Datadog platform, so treat this as a removal rather than a merge. Teams that relied specifically on simultaneous remote control — rather than one person sharing and everyone else watching — should test replacements before the date, not after: this is the capability least likely to survive the switch.
- Tuple (multi-cursor remote pairing, paid)
- Pop (formerly Screen)
- Zoom / Google Meet screen share with remote control — single controller only, not equivalent
Datadog acquired CoScreen in 2022 and has now discontinued it. The notice on the product’s own site is brief and unambiguous: “CoScreen will be shut down on July 31, 2026”, following what Datadog calls the difficult decision to discontinue it after years of helping teams solve problems together in real time.
The reason this is worth a page rather than a shrug is that CoScreen was not a generic screen-sharing app. Its distinguishing feature — every participant getting a real cursor and keyboard in the shared session, on individual windows rather than a whole desktop — is genuinely uncommon, and the teams that adopted it usually did so because ordinary screen sharing had already failed them. Those are the teams for whom “just use Meet” is not a migration.
Nine days is a short runway for a tool that sits in the middle of how a team works. Two things worth doing this week: check whether anything scripted or scheduled (onboarding docs, incident runbooks, interview loops) names CoScreen as the tool, and confirm what happens to any recordings or session artefacts you would want to keep — the notice does not say.
One thing the notice does not address at all: what becomes of stored session data and recordings after the date. We are treating that as an open question rather than assuming either answer, and will update this entry if Datadog publishes one.
Entry changelog
- — last reviewed.
- — Entry created from the deprecation notice on coscreen.co.
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