Every category where a model named Datadog Network Monitoring 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
Network monitoring and management	Network and edge	4%	6 of 78	16%	37	accepted challenger

Movement

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

By model

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

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	2	0	3
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	1	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	2	0	1	3
Perplexity Sonar	0	2	1	0	3
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	2	0	3
Mistral Small	0	2	1	0	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	2	1	4
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	0	1	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	2	1	2	5
Kimi K2	0	2	0	1	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	2	0	3
GPT-6 Luna	0	1	0	0	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	1	0	0	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

Direct21 labels4

Paraphrase3 labels1

Comparative29 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained14 labelsNone

Scale-constrained19 labelsNone

Negative17 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative103 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 8 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 typically recommend starting with Auvik or Datadog due to their ease of use, strong automation features, and scalable pricing models” MiniMax M2.5 · Network monitoring · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Datadog Network Performance Monitoring - a versatile end-to-end monitoring solution suitable for mid-market MSPs.” Llama 4 Maverick · Network monitoring · direct prompt · first choice

“If you're cloud-heavy or growing fast, LogicMonitor or Datadog offer better scalability but at higher operational cost” Kimi K2 · Network monitoring · scale prompt · alternative

“If you're deeply invested in cloud-native infrastructure, LogicMonitor or Datadog deserve serious consideration.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Network monitoring · direct prompt · alternative

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.

“Avoid Datadog for pure network monitoring” Kimi K2 · Network monitoring · direct prompt · hard negative

“they are expensive, complex, and overkill” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Network monitoring · direct prompt · hard negative

“Uses high-water mark billing (e.g., Datadog bills based on peak usage, so temporary spikes cost you all month)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Network monitoring · negative prompt · soft negative

“Cons: Can get extremely expensive based on log ingestion volume; focuses more on the application layer” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Network monitoring · comparative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Datadog Network Monitoring, over the 103 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Datadog Network Monitoring was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Paessler PRTG Network Monitor80 of 10318Compare →

Zabbix68 of 1035Compare →

LogicMonitor55 of 1039Compare →

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor54 of 10317Not among the top eight

Auvik51 of 1036Compare →

ManageEngine OpManager45 of 10312Compare →

Nagios44 of 1030Compare →

Kentik29 of 1032Not among the top eight

Dynatrace28 of 1030Not among the top eight

SolarWinds18 of 1030Not among the top eight

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 Network Monitoring. 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 88 of the 103 answers that named Datadog Network Monitoring and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

kentik.com41

guideflow.com40

blog.domotz.com39

netdata.cloud39

datamation.com36

learn.g2.com31

solarwinds.com30

manageengine.com26

netwrix.com26

ir.com25

333 of the 333 domain citations in answers naming Datadog Network Monitoring came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

netdata.cloud/resources/best-network-monitoring-tools39

guideflow.com/blog/network-monitoring-tools38

datamation.com/networks/network-monitoring-software36

kentik.com/kentipedia/best-network-monitoring-tools-202636

blog.domotz.com/all/enterprise-network-monitoring-tools32

learn.g2.com/best-network-monitoring-software30

netwrix.com/en/resources/blog/network-monitoring-tools26

ir.com/guides/network-monitoring-tools25

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Datadog Network Monitoring stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 480 a month (“datadog network monitoring”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 27 a month
Its own site: It sits on Datadog's site (datadoghq.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 6 of 78 in network monitoring

Segment leader

26%

Auvik

First choices: 5 across its categories
Named in: 103 answers
Its own site cited: in 88 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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 Network Monitoring

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Datadog Network Monitoring; a claim can dispute any of them.

Datadog 28Datadog Network Performance Monitoring 3

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The company

Datadog is the company behind Datadog Network Monitoring.

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On record

Company records

Also from Datadog: Datadog AIOps, Datadog APM, Datadog Agent, Datadog Cloud Cost Management, Datadog Cloud SIEM, Datadog Cloud Security, Datadog Cloud Security Management, Datadog Data Observability and 13 more

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Learn how Datadog Cloud Network Monitoring provides full visibility into every network component that makes up your on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments, with minimal overhead.
docs.datadoghq.com/network_monitoring
For: clients making DNS requests and DNS servers responding to the DNS request
docs.datadoghq.com/network_monitoring/dns
Free plan or trial: FREE TRIAL docs.datadoghq.com/network_monitoring
Integrations claimed: 1000 datadoghq.com/es/network-monitoring
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, certifications, hosting, customers

What Datadog Network Monitoring's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: docs.datadoghq.com/network_monitoring, datadoghq.com/es/network-monitoring, docs.datadoghq.com/integrations/network, docs.datadoghq.com/network_monitoring/dns, datadoghq.com/product/network-monitoring. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Datadog Network Monitoring by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Datadog Network Monitoring 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 Network Monitoring, 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.