Datadog APM
Cloud-based monitoring and observability platform for applications and infrastructure
- Also known as
- datadog-apm
Available worldwide
What is Datadog APM?
A monitoring and observability service that provides real-time visibility into application performance, user experience, network activity, and logs through unified monitoring, analytics, and AI-powered investigation capabilities.
Datadog APM pricing
We don't have Datadog APM's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
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- iOS
- Web
- Android
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (5)
Independently observed- Google Vertex AI
- Google Cloud Security Command Center
- Google Cloud SQL
- Google Cloud Run
- Google Cloud Dataflow
Datadog APM FAQ
Common questions about Datadog APM, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Datadog APM?
An observability platform providing code-level distributed tracing across web and mobile frontends, backend services, and databases. Correlates traces with logs, metrics, real-user monitoring data, and security signals to enable teams to detect root causes quickly and optimize application performance. It is indexed under APM Tools.
What platforms does Datadog APM support?
Datadog APM supports the web, iOS and Android. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.
Can Datadog APM be self-hosted?
We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Datadog APM, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.
What does Datadog APM integrate with?
We have confirmed 5 integrations for Datadog APM, including Google Vertex AI, Google Cloud Security Command Center, Google Cloud SQL, Google Cloud Run and Google Cloud Dataflow. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
What security certifications does Datadog APM have?
We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR for Datadog APM. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Datadog APM not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Where is Datadog APM available?
Datadog APM is available worldwide. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.
Datadog APM alternatives
Other apm tools we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- BlackfireWeb crawling, testing, and data extraction toolmedium · 70%
- Pyroscopemedium · 59%
- AppDynamicsMonitor and optimize application performance across hybrid and on-premises environmentsmedium · 71%
- InstanaAutomated, AI-powered full-stack observability for applications and infrastructurelow · 41%
- Azure Application InsightsMonitor your complete technology stack across applications, infrastructure, and networkslow · 39%
- DynatraceA software intelligence platform providing unified monitoring, security investigations, and compliance tracking for cloud-native applications and infrastructurelow · 39%
Compare Datadog APM
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| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security posture | 75 | 0.12 | 8.6 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 0.16 | 7.9 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 96 | 0.05 | 4.9 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 45 | 0.05 | 2.2 | ✓ |
| Price level | 0 | 0.04 | 0.0 | - |
| Pricing transparency | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | ✓ |
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Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 6 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 64% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Rum: Yes · Hosting: cloud · Service map: Yes · Otel support: native · Slo tracking: Yes · Db monitoring: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-10-13 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 35 | mediumsource · 2026-08-14 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | HqCountry: US · PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-08-14 · 75% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Security
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