Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDOG), the leading AI-powered observability and security platform, today announced it has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms, 2026. This is the sixth consecutive year Gartner has positioned Datadog as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant.
Datadog was positioned highest in Ability to Execute in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms.
“We believe being recognised as a Leader for the sixth consecutive year reflects the depth of investment Datadog has made in helping teams navigate the complexity of building AI- and LLM-powered applications,” said Yanbing Li, Chief Product Officer at Datadog. “Datadog invests more than $1 billion in R&D (non-GAAP) annually — from contributions to OpenTelemetry and OpenLineage to the capabilities we ship every day — because our customers need answers, not more complexity.”
“Datadog gives our teams real-time visibility into how customers experience our products, allowing us to identify and resolve issues before they impact end users,” said Daniel Perschonok, VP of Cloud, Data, & Security Services at Experian Consumer Services. “When we launched our AI chatbot, EVA, LLM Observability provided immediate insight into model performance and customer interactions, helping us deliver a stable, high-quality AI experience from day one.”
Customer feedback is vital to Datadog’s product innovation. Below are some recent reviews of Datadog, a 2025 Gartner Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for Observability Platforms, from the company’s profile on Gartner Peer Insights™:
“As an APM user, I have found Bits AI to be a significant improvement for troubleshooting and debugging,” said an IT associate at an IT services company. “In the past, effective debugging often required deep knowledge of the application and extensive experience investigating issues. Bits AI has made the process much easier by helping identify potential root causes and guiding the investigation more efficiently.”
“Datadog has been a game changer for us as we moved from a diversified set of products to a single unified platform for all of our observability needs,” said a software developer at a healthcare and biotech company. “We are better, faster and more aligned as a technology org throughout the entire development lifecycle and beyond.”
“Datadog has been a fantastic partner,” said a director of IT at a travel and hospitality company. “The product has become more useful every year and with the age of AI, we are seeing more useful features being introduced almost monthly. We also appreciate that the account team is very engaged with the enterprise and the product engineering team turns around feedback quickly.”
Datadog’s unified observability and security platform breaks down organisational silos and enables IT operations, development, security, and business teams to collaborate more effectively and take action based on a single source of truth.
- Bits Investigation autonomously investigates alerts, surfaces root cause, and recommends and takes action across systems, accelerating incident response and reducing outages.
- Agent Observability provides visibility into the performance, quality, security, and cost of AI agents and LLM apps, enabling safe and scalable adoption of AI-native workloads.
- End-to-end APM reduces mean time to resolution by connecting mobile and browser apps with backend services, providing deep visibility into every user action, line of code, and database query.
- Digital Experience Monitoring gives organisations complete visibility into how customers experience their mobile and web digital products and uniquely ties those experiences to backend systems and business outcomes.
The full report is now available for download here: https://www.datadoghq.com/resources/gartner-magic-quadrant-observability-platforms-2026/.
