# Datadog

Datadog is a SaaS platform for cloud monitoring and security. It brings infrastructure metrics, distributed traces, logs, synthetic and real user monitoring, and security data into one platform. Teams use it to monitor, troubleshoot and secure cloud and hybrid environments.

Page: https://slateindex.ai/brand/datadog · data of 2026-11-03

## Facts

- Founded: 2010
- Headquarters: New York, NY
- Employees: 1,001–5,000
- Company type: Public (NASDAQ: DDOG)
- Latest funding: IPO
- Deployment: SaaS
- Best for: Engineering teams that maintain, optimize and secure cloud or hybrid environments
- Compliance: FedRAMP High (Datadog for Government)

## Products

- Infrastructure Monitoring: SaaS metrics, visualizations and alerting for cloud, hybrid and on-premise infrastructure.
- APM: Monitors application performance with distributed traces and service overviews.
- Log Management: Collects, searches and analyzes logs in context with metrics and traces.
- Bits AI: AI agents that chat with telemetry, investigate alerts and help remediate issues.
- Security: Cloud security, cloud SIEM and application and API protection built on the observability platform.
- Network Monitoring: Analyzes network traffic patterns across cloud environments.
- Synthetic Monitoring: Proactive monitoring of critical application features.
- Real User Monitoring: Monitors user journeys and frontend performance.
- Serverless Monitoring: Provides a view of serverless applications.

## Rankings

| Category | Rank | Visibility | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Observability | 1 of 45 | 69.5 | 65 |

## By engine

| Engine | Visibility | Mention rate |
|---|---|---|
| chatgpt | 78.7 | 92.6% |
| google_ai_mode | 73.5 | 81.5% |
| perplexity | 56.3 | 66.7% |

## Definitions

- Visibility (0–100): how often and how high AI answers name the brand, weighted by position.
- Mention rate: share of collected AI answers that name the brand.
- Share of voice: the brand's mentions as a share of all brand mentions in the category.
- Citation authority: share of answers naming the brand that cite the brand's own site.

Cite as: SlateIndex, “Datadog AI visibility profile”, https://slateindex.ai/brand/datadog, data of 2026-11-03. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).