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PagerDuty Datadog investigates inside Datadog.
Cleric investigates all of production.
Bits AI helps inside Datadog telemetry, while Cleric also handles issues across your full production environment.
Datadog investigates inside Datadog.
Four dimensions that matter in production
Dimension
Cleric 
Bits AI SRE Investigation surface
Observability, cloud, code, deploys, tickets, chat, and customer context.
Metrics, logs, traces, monitors, and Datadog context. Explores multiple root cause hypotheses in parallel.
Definition of an issue
Can start from an alert, a Jira ticket, a customer escalation, a Slack thread, or a scheduled proactive scan.
Usually starts from a Datadog alert or monitor.
Integrations
No walled garden. If a system has an API, Cleric can pull it into the investigation.
Learn moreDatadog-first, with workflow integrations like Slack, Jira, ServiceNow, and GitHub.
Compounding knowledge and accuracy
Measured against real outcomes, with more accuracy and more autonomy over time.
Learn moreLearns from every investigation to improve accuracy. Can suggest code fixes to speed recovery.
Investigation surface Cleric Bits AI SRE
Cleric Observability, cloud, code, deploys, tickets, chat, and customer context.
Bits AI SRE Metrics, logs, traces, monitors, and Datadog context. Explores multiple root cause hypotheses in parallel.
Definition of an issue Cleric Bits AI SRE
Cleric Can start from an alert, a Jira ticket, a customer escalation, a Slack thread, or a scheduled proactive scan.
Bits AI SRE Usually starts from a Datadog alert or monitor.
Integrations Cleric Bits AI SRE
Cleric No walled garden. If a system has an API, Cleric can pull it into the investigation.
Learn more Bits AI SRE Datadog-first, with workflow integrations like Slack, Jira, ServiceNow, and GitHub.
Compounding knowledge and accuracy Bits AI SRE
Bits AI SRE Learns from every investigation to improve accuracy. Can suggest code fixes to speed recovery.
Datadog Bits AI SRE is an agent. Cleric is an autonomous learning system.
Stage
Cleric Bits AI SRE Orient
Learns service topology, past issues and your engineering conventions.
Autonomous, human gated
Not covered
Detect
Recognizes a meaningful production issue.
Autonomous
Autonomous
Investigate
Correlates evidence to explain what happened.
Autonomous
Autonomous
Act / escalate
Takes action or routes to the right human.
Autonomous, human gated
Autonomous, human gated
Verify
Checks whether the fix actually worked.
Autonomous
Not covered
Learn
Improves future work from resolved outcomes.
Autonomous
Manual
Orient Cleric Bits AI SRE
Learns service topology, past issues and your engineering conventions.
Cleric Autonomous, human gated
Bits AI SRE Not covered
Detect Cleric Bits AI SRE
Recognizes a meaningful production issue.
Cleric Autonomous
Bits AI SRE Autonomous
Investigate Cleric Bits AI SRE
Correlates evidence to explain what happened.
Cleric Autonomous
Bits AI SRE Autonomous
Act / escalate Cleric Bits AI SRE
Takes action or routes to the right human.
Cleric Autonomous, human gated
Bits AI SRE Autonomous, human gated
Verify Cleric Bits AI SRE
Checks whether the fix actually worked.
Cleric Autonomous
Bits AI SRE Not covered
Learn Cleric Bits AI SRE
Improves future work from resolved outcomes.
Cleric Autonomous
Bits AI SRE Manual
When to choose Datadog
Bits AI can create Datadog dashboards, set up monitors, and query your telemetry natively. If you need a better experience inside Datadog itself, Bits AI delivers that.
Bottom line
Bits AI is an investigation assistant inside Datadog that can suggest code fixes and explore multiple hypotheses in parallel. Cleric investigates across your full stack, verifies outcomes, and compounds what it learns.
See how Cleric investigates your production issues
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Information about Datadog Bits AI SRE is based on publicly available data as of May 2026 and may not reflect the most current features or pricing. All third-party trademarks referenced on this page are the property of their respective owners. Cleric is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Datadog.