On the Record · Datadog
Datadog competitors, on the record
The companies Datadog names as competitors in its annual reports, 2023 to 2025, and the companies that name Datadog, each with the sentence and the filing.
Who Datadog names
| Company | Named in |
|---|---|
| Cisco Systems, Inc. | 2025 |
| Dynatrace Software Inc. | 2025 |
| Elastic N.V. | 2025 |
| IBM | 2025 |
| Microsoft Azure | 2025 |
| Microsoft Corporation | 2025 |
| New Relic, Inc. | 2025 |
| SolarWinds Corporation | 2025 |
In its own words
Cisco Systems, Inc., Dynatrace Software Inc., New Relic, Inc.
Word for word“With respect to APM, we compete with companies including Cisco Systems, Inc., New Relic, Inc. and Dynatrace Software Inc.” 10-K for 2025
Elastic N.V.
Word for word“With respect to log management, we compete with companies including Cisco Systems, Inc. and Elastic N.V.” 10-K for 2025
IBM, Microsoft Corporation, SolarWinds Corporation
Word for word“With respect to on-premise infrastructure monitoring, we compete with diversified technology companies and systems management vendors including IBM, Microsoft Corporation, and SolarWinds Corporation.” 10-K for 2025
Microsoft Azure
Word for word“With respect to cloud monitoring, we compete with native solutions from cloud providers such as AWS, GCP and Microsoft Azure.” 10-K for 2025
Who names Datadog
Companies whose own annual reports name Datadog as a competitor.
Word for word“Our competitors (in each case relative to only some of our products or services) include: Amazon Web Services LLC; Arista Networks, Inc.; Broadcom Inc.; Ciena Corporation; CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.; Datadog Inc.; Dell Technologies Inc.; Dynatrace Inc.; Fortinet, Inc.; Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company; Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.; Microsoft Corporation; Nokia Corporation; Nvidia Corporation; Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; RingCentral, Inc.; Zoom Video Communications, Inc.; and Zscaler, Inc.; among others.” 10-K for 2026
Word for word“Our principal competitors include Cisco (which includes AppDynamics and Splunk), Datadog, Elastic, Grafana, and New Relic.” 10-K for 2026
Word for word“• For Elastic Observability: software vendors with specific observability solutions, such as AppDynamics and Splunk (each owned by Cisco Systems), Datadog, Dynatrace, and New Relic.” 10-K for 2026
Word for word“In the enterprise market, our competitors include companies who provide network observability, application performance management, infrastructure performance management and other related solutions such as CA Technologies (a Broadcom Inc. business), Cisco Systems, Dynatrace, Datadog, ExtraHop, IBM, Infovista, Viavi, Gigamon, New Relic, Riverbed Technology, and SolarWinds.” 10-K for 2026
Read from Datadog’s annual reports (10-K for 2025, 10-K for 2024, 10-K for 2023) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2026-02-18. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.