# Datadog named the Company to Beat for observability platforms in 2026 Gartner® AI Vendor Race report

DevFeed: [Datadog named the Company to Beat for observability platforms in 2026 Gartner® AI Vendor Race report](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/datadog-named-the-company-to-beat-for-observability-platforms-in-2026-gartner-ai-vendor-race-report-17413.md>)

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

Author: Yanbing Li

Published: 2026-09-14T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

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>), [observability ai agents](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/observability-ai-agents.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident.md>), [MCP Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mcp-server.md>), [observability pipelines](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/observability-pipelines.md>), [OpenTelemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/opentelemetry.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>)

Tags: [agent-observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent-observability.md>), [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [datadog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/datadog.md>), [incident-response](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-response.md>), [mcp-server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mcp-server.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [observability-pipelines](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability-pipelines.md>), [opentelemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/opentelemetry.md>)

## AI overview

Datadog says it was named the Company to Beat for observability platforms in Gartner's August 2026 AI Vendor Race research and a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms. The article presents Datadog's unified observability and security platform, including autonomous incident investigation, AI agent and LLM application observability, an MCP Server for querying telemetry, and Observability Pipelines with OpenTelemetry support.

## Source excerpt

Datadog has been recognized as the Company to Beat for observability platforms in the August 2026 Gartner® AI Vendor Race research.