Small business▼−10Since September 2026: 17% → 7%, −10 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
7%from 17% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 1 pointRank 2 → 3 of 58
Datadog · 2 categories · RankedDatadog APM
208Judge labels
23First choices
83Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
20% in APM for mid-market buyers
Rank 2 of 66 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
5 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 29% of its 68 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Datadog APM →By buyer segmentStrongest at mid-market.
Small business4 of 60
6%66 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market2 of 66
20%68 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise2 of 59
16%73 labels
criticized challenger
In apm · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Datadog APM for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application performance monitoring | IT operations and endpoint | 20% | 2 of 66 | 29% | 68 | criticized challenger | ▲+7Since September 2026: 11% → 18%, +7 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Observability platforms | IT operations and endpoint | 2% | 14 of 80 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Grafana at 27% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Datadog APM held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · APM · by segment
Mid-market▲+7Since September 2026: 11% → 18%, +7 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
18%from 11% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 4 pointsRank 3 → 2 of 60
Enterprise▼−13Since September 2026: 28% → 15%, −13 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.
15%from 28% in September 2026
Cleared the floor by 2 pointsRank 2 of 57, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| APM | 11% | 18% | ▲+7Since September 2026: 11% → 18%, +7 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 3 → 2 of 66 |
| Observability | 0% | 2% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now. | New this edition | Rank 14 of 80, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Datadog APM across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Datadog APM across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct37 labels10
Paraphrase39 labels7
Comparative40 labels14not counted in share
Budget-constrained29 labels1
Scale-constrained29 labels5
Negative34 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative208 labels in all, every segment counted; 23 of the 38 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“I'd recommend Datadog APM if you want the strongest overall balance of observability, integrations, and scalability” Perplexity Sonar · APM · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Datadog is best for teams wanting a mature, all-in-one SaaS solution with strong community and integrations.” Mistral Small · Observability · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Datadog is widely regarded as the industry standard for modern, cloud-native microservices environments.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · APM · comparative prompt · first choice
“Datadog or New Relic - they scale well, have strong support, and are popular in the mid-market” MiniMax M2.5 · APM · scale prompt · first choice
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“tools and vendors you should be cautious about or potentially avoid... 1. Datadog - Most Common Complaint ... Unpredictable pricing” Kimi K2 · APM · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid on a limited budget unless you need the premium features: Datadog, since it's typically the easiest to overspend on” GPT-5.4 mini · APM · budget prompt · hard negative
“Avoid: - Datadog if you have budget sensitivity or Kubernetes at scale.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · APM · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid Datadog or Dynatrace if you are on a tight budget.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · APM · budget prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Datadog APM, over the 208 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Datadog APM was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Datadog APM, over the 208 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Datadog APM was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Datadog APM. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 186 of the 208 answers that named Datadog APM and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
newrelic.com113
motadata.com99
g2.com90
manageengine.com77
middleware.io77
uptrace.dev55
atatus.com46
cubeapm.com46
learn.g2.com45
coralogix.com40
688 of the 688 domain citations in answers naming Datadog APM came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
datadoghq.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Datadog APM takes 20% of first choices and New Relic takes 46%.ShowHide
Search and answers
datadoghq.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Datadog APM takes 20% of first choices and New Relic takes 46%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “apm tool”
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not in the top ten
Position for “apm tools”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 2,900 a month (“datadog apm”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 47 a month
- Its company's site
- datadoghq.com shared with Datadog's other products; the figures are the site's
- Organic visits to its site
- about 159,408 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 16,399 · 2,593 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 24,479
- Paid Google search
- 6 searches its ads show for, about 64 clicks and $633 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
20%
rank 2 of 66 in APM
Segment leader
46%
New Relic
- First choices
- 23 across its categories
- Named in
- 208 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 186 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Names read as Datadog APM
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Datadog APM; a claim can dispute any of them.
Datadog 60
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The company
Datadog is the company behind Datadog APM.ShowHide
The company
Datadog is the company behind Datadog APM.
ShowHideOn record
Company recordsIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Get code-level visibility into the health and performance of your Go applications with Datadog APM
- For
- Observe, troubleshoot, and improve cloud-scale applications with all telemetry in context
- Price stated
- View pricing datadoghq.com/product/apm
- Free plan or trial
- Free Trial — Explore the entire Datadog platform for 14 days. datadoghq.com/apm/go-apm
- Customers named
- Forbes
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting
What Datadog APM's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: datadoghq.com/apm/go-apm, datadoghq.com/product/apm, datadoghq.com/apm/php-apm, datadoghq.com/apm/ruby-apm, datadoghq.com/apm/java-apm. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Datadog APM's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Datadog APM, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Datadog APM by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Datadog APM is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Datadog APM, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Datadog APM is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Datadog APM is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideDatadog APM is among the products AI models recommend first in Application performance monitoring this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.