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What is Datadog APM?
Application Performance Monitoring that provides end-to-end visibility into your stack's health and performance, integrated with comprehensive observability and security capabilities.
What Datadog APM does
The capabilities that matter for apm tools, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Auto-instrumentation
- ✓
- Distributed tracing
- ✓
- Service map
- -
- Code / continuous profiling
- ✓
- Database monitoring
- ✓
- Error analytics
- ✓
- Real-user monitoring
- ✓
- SLO / error-budget tracking
- ✓
- Anomaly / root-cause AI
- ✓
- OpenTelemetry support
- OTel-native
- Language agents
- -
- Hosting
- Cloud only
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (10)
Independently observed- AWS
- Azure
- Google Cloud
- Oracle Cloud
- Kubernetes
- Red Hat OpenShift
- Pivotal Platform
- OpenAI
- SAP
- OpenTelemetry
Datadog APM alternatives
Other apm tools we track, ranked by the same independent score.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Datadog APM, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security Posture | 75 | 0.13 | 9.7 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 0.17 | 8.8 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 86 | 0.09 | 8.1 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 92 | 0.07 | 6.4 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 0 | 0.05 | 0.0 | - |
| Pricing Transparency | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"rum":true,"hosting":"cloud","otel_support":"native","slo_tracking":true,"db_monitoring":true,"code_profiling":true,"error_analytics":true,"anomaly_detection":true,"distributed_tracing":true,"auto_instrumentation":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 1,000 | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | {"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]} | highsource · 2026-08-05 · 75% |
Pricing
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Model | commercial | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |