What was the revenue growth rate for DDOG in 2022-Q1 
And we're seeing some great customers onboarding, thanks to that.
David, you want to take the other question?
David Obstler -- Chief Financial Officer
Sure. Thanks, Kash. We believe that digital and cloud projects are still very high priority and are not being deprioritized. We haven't seen that.
We think we're still early on. So with the data we have so far, we think there will be continued strong investment. There is always some volatility across our customer base. Our customer base is very well diversified across industries, and we benefited from that over time.
So whereas we're not macro forecasters, and there may well be some sensitivity. We believe the long-term trends in digital migration and cloud will still be very strong throughout that cycle.
Operator
The next question comes from Fatima Boolani with Citi.
Fatima Boolani -- Citi -- Analyst
Oli, one quick one for you, just as it relates to the deeper strategic and technical penetration within the DevSecOps arena. I mean, it sounds like your thesis is very much because you have the critical massive data and the data gravity as it relates to your observability use cases, you're able to parlay that in a more meaningful way for security. And I'm wondering why not partner with some of your peers in that space versus kind of go at it alone? And then a quick follow-up for David, please.
Olivier Pomel -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Yes. So that's a good question. So there's two things we bring to the table in security. One is we have, as you mentioned, the gravity and we're in the path of data for pretty much everything that relates to our customers infrastructure applications and their own users, which is obviously fantastic.
The other thing we bring is we have -- we're being used all day by everyone in development and in operations. And that's not typically something that the other security products -- or the typical security products are built for. So it's actually hard if you wanted to partner, it's hard to find a product that's built for those people. Most security products are purely built for security teams.
So that's why we've been building a lot of that. Of course, we still partner with a lot of the other players in the industry. But we embarked on this journey because we think we have come from a different spot. We think we have different take on the problem that in the end, is -- offers us and our customers a lot more leverage in that actual chance at solving the six day issues, not just throwing software and resources at it.
So this is where we come from.
Fatima Boolani -- Citi -- Analyst
And, David, just with respect to that delta between reported revenue growth in billings, it's probably one of the bigger deltas we've seen in relation to recent quarters. And given your commentary around invoicing duration having stayed stable. I believe that would be -- that would imply seven to eight months. I'm still curious as to why you'd see such a meaningful acceleration in billings head and shoulders above revenue growth.
If you could just unpack that for us a little bit and when you expect that divergence to narrow.
David Obstler -- Chief Financial Officer
And I have to -- as I mentioned, there is variability in billing and RPO versus revenue based on when bills go out. We still have, for the most part, in our larger contracts pretty much annual billing. So the sending out of a large annual bill might move the duration a little bit, but not a lot. And the strong performance, the billing was very strong and indicative of the business.
it was complemented by the fact that in this quarter, we sent out the bill for some large contracts upfront annual billing and the timing of that causes the variability. Over the average and over the course of the year, that balances out with the timing of the billing, and we believe that billing converges with revenue growth. We remind everybody that revenue growth and implied ARR growth is a better metric of the progress of the business.
Operator
The next question comes from Sanjit Singh with Morgan Stanley.
Sanjit Singh -
And we're seeing some great customers onboarding, thanks to that.
David, you want to take the other question?
David Obstler -- Chief Financial Officer
Sure. Thanks, Kash. We believe that digital and cloud projects are still very high priority and are not being deprioritized. We haven't seen that.
We think we're still early on. So with the data we have so far, we think there will be continued strong investment. There is always some volatility across our customer base. Our customer base is very well diversified across industries, and we benefited from that over time.
So whereas we're not macro forecasters, and there may well be some sensitivity. We believe the long-term trends in digital migration and cloud will still be very strong throughout that cycle.
Operator
The next question comes from Fatima Boolani with Citi.
Fatima Boolani -- Citi -- Analyst
Oli, one quick one for you, just as it relates to the deeper strategic and technical penetration within the DevSecOps arena. I mean, it sounds like your thesis is very much because you have the critical massive data and the data gravity as it relates to your observability use cases, you're able to parlay that in a more meaningful way for security. And I'm wondering why not partner with some of your peers in that space versus kind of go at it alone? And then a quick follow-up for David, please.
Olivier Pomel -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Yes. So that's a good question. So there's two things we bring to the table in security. One is we have, as you mentioned, the gravity and we're in the path of data for pretty much everything that relates to our customers infrastructure applications and their own users, which is obviously fantastic.
The other thing we bring is we have -- we're being used all day by everyone in development and in operations. And that's not typically something that the other security products -- or the typical security products are built for. So it's actually hard if you wanted to partner, it's hard to find a product that's built for those people. Most security products are purely built for security teams.
 So that's why we've been building a lot of that. Of course, we still partner with a lot of the other players in the industry. But we embarked on this journey because we think we have come from a different spot. We think we have different take on the problem that in the end, is -- offers us and our customers a lot more leverage in that actual chance at solving the six day issues, not just throwing software and resources at it.
So this is where we come from.
Fatima Boolani -- Citi -- Analyst
And, David, just with respect to that delta between reported revenue growth in billings, it's probably one of the bigger deltas we've seen in relation to recent quarters. And given your commentary around invoicing duration having stayed stable. I believe that would be -- that would imply seven to eight months. I'm still curious as to why you'd see such a meaningful acceleration in billings head and shoulders above revenue growth.
If you could just unpack that for us a little bit and when you expect that divergence to narrow.
David Obstler -- Chief Financial Officer
And I have to -- as I mentioned, there is variability in billing and RPO versus revenue based on when bills go out. We still have, for the most part, in our larger contracts pretty much annual billing. So the sending out of a large annual bill might move the duration a little bit, but not a lot. And the strong performance, the billing was very strong and indicative of the business.
it was complemented by the fact that in this quarter, we sent out the bill for some large contracts upfront annual billing and the timing of that causes the variability. Over the average and over the course of the year, that balances out with the timing of the billing, and we believe that billing converges with revenue growth. We remind everybody that revenue growth and implied ARR growth is a better metric of the progress of the business.
Operator
The next question comes from Sanjit Singh with Morgan Stanley.
Sanjit Singh -