Datadog
SaaS observability, security and analytics for cloud-native stacks
datadoghq.com ↗New York, NY, United States (address per Trustpilot company profile)Claim this profile
Score breakdown
What makes up this score
External Reputation72
- 3 independent review sources
- 1,116 third-party reviews counted
AI Authority52
- 2 answer engines measured
- cross-model consistency 0.98
Web Authority23
- 7 web authority signals
- average citing-domain authority 35
Expert Assessment64
- 100% of the category rubric covered
TOP10 User Score—
- No approved user reviews yet
Explanation
Why Datadog ranks #2
Datadog ranks #2 of 12 monitoring & observability with a TOP SCORE of 54.
The category leader scores 60, a gap of 6 points.
That is 9 points above the category average of 45.
Its strongest component is External Reputation at 72; its weakest is Web Authority at 23.
No usable evidence was found for TOP10 User Score, so that weight was redistributed across the components that are evidenced.
Generated from the recorded evidence behind this score, not from editorial opinion. How scoring works.
Score history
How the score has moved
60 → 54 ↓5.7
External reputation
What third-party sources publish
| Source | Published | Normalised | Reviews | Last checked | Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capterra ↗ | 4.6/5 | 92 | 367 | 31 Aug 2026 | permitted crawl |
| G2 ↗ | 4.4/5 | 88 | 726 | 31 Aug 2026 | permitted crawl |
| Trustpilot ↗ | 1.8/5 | 36 | 23 | 31 Aug 2026 | permitted crawl |
AI visibility
How answer engines treat this platform
| Engine | Mention | Recommendation | Citation | Avg position | Queries | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| claude sonnet 5 grounded | 88% | 25% | 13% | 5.9 | 8 | 1 Sept 2026 |
| claude sonnet 5 grounded | 83% | 33% | 8% | 4.6 | 12 | 1 Sept 2026 |
| claude sonnet 5 parametric | 75% | 33% | 0% | 4.3 | 12 | 1 Sept 2026 |
Web authority
Citations and independent coverage
- Trustpilot31 Aug 2026
- Capterra31 Aug 2026
- Capterra Canada31 Aug 2026
- G231 Aug 2026
- SigNoz (competitor-published)31 Aug 2026
- Better Stack (competitor-published)31 Aug 2026
- AWS Marketplace31 Aug 2026
TOP10 users
What our users report
No published reviews yet. Reviews are moderated before they appear and are never removed at a business's request.
Company information
The facts on file
- Description
- Datadog is a SaaS-only observability platform that unifies infrastructure monitoring, APM, log management, digital experience monitoring, software delivery, service management and cloud security in one vendor. Its catalogue spans 1,000+ integrations with regional US, EU, APAC and a reduced-catalogue US-FED site. Priced per host, per GB, per event, per committer and per credit, it targets cloud-native mid-market and enterprise engineering, ops and security teams, with volume discounts starting at 500+ hosts/mo.
- Category
- Monitoring & Observability
- Headquarters
- New York, NY, United States (address per Trustpilot company profile)
- Products
- Infrastructure Monitoring, Application Performance Monitoring (APM, APM Pro, APM Enterprise), Log Management (Standard Indexing, Flex Logs, Flex Compute), DevSecOps / Cloud Security Management (CSPM, KSPM, CIEM, Workload Protection), Cloud SIEM, Real User Monitoring & Session Replay, Synthetic Monitoring, Database Monitoring, Network Monitoring, CI Pipeline Visibility, Test Optimization, Code Coverage, Code Security, Feature Flags (built on OpenFeature), Incident Response, Case Management, Workflow Automation, Bits AI suite (Chat, Investigation, Code, Agent Builder, Security Analyst), Observability Pipelines, Agent Observability, GPU monitoring
- Markets
- Mid-market, Enterprise, Cloud-native engineering teams, Security engineering, IT operations, US federal (reduced catalogue via US-FED site)
- Countries
- United States, European Union, Asia-Pacific
- Integrations
- 1,000+ vendor-backed integrations, OpenTelemetry / OTLP APM ingest, Amazon S3 archiving, Azure Blob Storage archiving, Google Cloud Storage archiving, GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, OpenFeature (CNCF), MCP Server and Pup CLI for agentic access, SAML SSO providers / SCIM
- Pricing
- USD $15/host/month (Infrastructure Pro, billed annually; $18 on-demand) · free tier: Infrastructure Free: $0 for up to 5 hosts, 1-day metric retention, out-of-the-box dashboards, 1,000+ integrations, unlimited user accounts; Feature Flags free below 1M monthly flag configuration requests pricing page ↗
- Regulatory
- Vendor states SOC 2 compliance and that Log Management supports PCI and HIPAA compliance; DevSecOps Pro/Enterprise track conformance to 15+ benchmarks including CIS, PCI DSS and SOC 2. Security controls stated include universal HTTPS, strong TLS, HSTS and agent-level scrubbing, and the Datadog Agent is open source. Data residency available via US, EU, APAC and a separate US-FED site with a materially reduced product catalogue; Feature Flags are unavailable in GovCloud. FedRAMP authorisation level and ISO 27001 status were NOT verified this session and should not be asserted.
- Official website
- https://www.datadoghq.com/pricing/ ↗
- Last verified
- 31 Aug 2026
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Category context
- This platform54
- Category leader60
- Category average45
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