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Do AI agents pick Datadog?

How often agents choose Datadog when a developer needs error monitoring — measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

Datadog

#2 of 6 observability
3%Pick Rate
95% CI 2%7%

When developers ask an AI agent for observability, Datadog is picked 3% of the time — ranking #2 of 6 measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

Picked 3% Named, not picked 38% Never surfaced 59%

Beaten by Sentry (60%).

Awareness

15.8M package downloads / week

Known but not preferred — widely used, but agents pick competitors. That's a preference problem, not awareness.

0 docs in FineWeb (10BT sample) · 2.0K URLs in Common Crawl

In the raw web crawl, but thin in the filtered corpus models actually train on — an awareness gap at the source.

AdoptionDid the pick convert to installs? Public Adoption = npm downloads of your packages. The proof half of the funnel.

61.0M installs / month ▲ 2% MoM

Installs are roughly flat month over month.

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About Datadog

Cloud monitoring and observability platform for tracking application performance, infrastructure, and logs.

Datadog collects, aggregates, and stores telemetry data—traces, metrics, and logs—from applications and infrastructure, then makes that data queryable through dashboards, alerts, and analytics. Its APM (Application Performance Monitoring) capability traces requests through distributed systems, helping developers and operations teams identify latency, errors, and performance bottlenecks. It is aimed at engineering teams running production software who need visibility across services, hosts, and cloud environments.

Where to start

Install the Node.js tracer library in your application and configure it to send data to a locally running Datadog Agent, which forwards the data to your Datadog account. From there, traces and metrics appear in your Datadog dashboards where you can set up monitors and alerts.

Install

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