Datadog
Cloud monitoring and security platform with APM, logs, and AI observability.
About
Datadog is the dominant cloud observability platform, unifying infrastructure monitoring, APM tracing, log management, and security in one SaaS console. Developers instrument services with its agents and 800+ integrations, then correlate metrics, traces, and logs to debug production issues. It has leaned hard into AI: the Bits AI suite (SRE, dev, and security analyst agents) and LLM Observability track model performance, agent behavior, token cost, and hallucinations.
In May 2025 Datadog acquired Eppo, a feature flagging and experimentation platform, folding experimentation into its Product Analytics suite so teams can compare models, prompts, and rollouts side by side. It also acquired Metaplane for data observability. With $4.4B in cash reported in mid-2025 and a march toward 15% of ARR from AI products, Datadog is positioning observability as the control plane for agentic software. Pricing is usage-based and famously expensive at scale, which is the main reason teams evaluate alternatives.
What it can do
- APM distributed tracing across services
- Log management with 800+ integrations
- LLM Observability for models and agents
- Bits AI agents for SRE and security workflows
- Experimentation and feature flags via Eppo
Setup
Sign up at datadog.com, install the Datadog Agent on hosts or use the OpenTelemetry collector, and add language libraries to services.
Prerequisites
Cloud or on-prem infrastructure to monitor; an account and API key.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 9/10
Scored 9/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: Verified via vendor site/docs/GitHub and reputable coverage, wave 88; Trending score 92/100 from researcher assessment.
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