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Datadog · 2 categories · Named, not ranked

Datadog APM

7Judge labels

2First choices

3Negative labels

5 of 12Models named it

2Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Datadog APM was named 2 times in APM and 1 other category, where New Relic led with 54%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business11 of 58

under the label threshold

Mid-market30 of 70

under the label threshold

Enterprise6 of 58

under the label threshold

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
Application performance monitoring	IT operations and endpoint	0%	30 of 70	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by New Relic at 54%
Error and crash monitoring	Developer platform	0%	34 of 44	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Sentry at 82%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Datadog APM yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Datadog APM across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	1

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

Direct2 labels1

Paraphrase1 label1

Comparative2 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative7 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 3 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.

“Best for unified cloud observability, offering strong integration with cloud-native environments and a comprehensive feature set” Mistral Small · APM · comparative 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.

“Considerations: Higher price point, better for larger teams” MiniMax M2.5 · Error monitoring · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Datadog APM, over the 7 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.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

New Relic6 of 72Not in the top three

Dynatrace6 of 70Not in the top three

AppDynamics4 of 70Not in the top three

Elastic APM3 of 70Not in the top three

AppSignal2 of 71Not in the top three

Sentry2 of 71Not in the top three

Grafana Cloud2 of 70Not in the top three

Rollbar1 of 71Not in the top three

Azure Monitor Application Insights1 of 70Not in the top three

IBM Instana1 of 70Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. 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, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 6 of the 7 answers that named Datadog APM and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

rollbar.com4

instatus.com3

scoutapm.com3

cubeapm.com2

g2.com2

guideflow.com2

medium.com2

middleware.io2

newrelic.com2

openobserve.ai2

Twenty-four of the twenty-four domain citations in answers naming Datadog APM came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

instatus.com/blog/apm-tools3

rollbar.com/blog/best-apm-tools3

cubeapm.com/blog/top-apm-tools-features-pricing-usecases2

g2.com/categories/application-performance-monitoring-apm/small-business2

newrelic.com/blog/observability/enterprise-apm2

openobserve.ai/blog/top-10-apm-tools2

reveillesoftware.com/blog/blog/14-best-application-performance-monitoring-apm-tools-20242

scoutapm.com/blog/best-apm-for-small-teams-20262

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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