# Datadog named Leader in 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms

DevFeed: [Datadog named Leader in 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/datadog-named-leader-in-2026-gartner-magic-quadranttm-for-observability-platforms-2261.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/datadog-observability-platforms-gartner-magic-quadrant-2026/>)

Author: Yanbing Li

Published: 2026-07-15T00:00:00Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [Datadog | The Monitor blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/datadog-the-monitor-blog.md>)

Topics: [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/observability.md>), [agent observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/agent-observability.md>), [OpenTelemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/opentelemetry.md>), [Application Performance Management (APM)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/apm.md>), [Incident response](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident-response.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>)

Tags: [agent-observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent-observability.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [apm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apm.md>), [incident-response](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-response.md>), [llm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llm.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [opentelemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/opentelemetry.md>)

## AI overview

Datadog announces that Gartner named it a Leader in the 2026 Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms for the sixth consecutive year. The article highlights unified observability and security, autonomous alert investigation, visibility into AI agents and LLM applications, telemetry pipelines with OpenTelemetry support, and end-to-end application performance monitoring.

## Source excerpt

Datadog has been recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms for the sixth consecutive year. Learn more.