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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.
Four dimensions that matter in production
Bits AI SRE Observability, cloud, code, deploys, tickets, chat, and customer context.
Metrics, logs, traces, monitors, and Datadog context. Explores multiple root cause hypotheses in parallel.
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.
No walled garden. If a system has an API, Cleric can pull it into the investigation.
Datadog-first, with workflow integrations like Slack, Jira, ServiceNow, and GitHub.
Measured against real outcomes, with more accuracy and more autonomy over time.
Learns from every investigation to improve accuracy. Can suggest code fixes to speed recovery.
Investigation surface
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
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
No walled garden. If a system has an API, Cleric can pull it into the investigation.
Bits AI SRE Datadog-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.
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.
Bits AI SRE Orient
Learns service topology, past issues and your engineering conventions.
Detect
Recognizes a meaningful production issue.
Investigate
Correlates evidence to explain what happened.
Act / escalate
Takes action or routes to the right human.
Verify
Checks whether the fix actually worked.
Learn
Improves future work from resolved outcomes.
Orient
Learns service topology, past issues and your engineering conventions.
Bits AI SRE Detect
Recognizes a meaningful production issue.
Bits AI SRE Investigate
Correlates evidence to explain what happened.
Bits AI SRE Act / escalate
Takes action or routes to the right human.
Bits AI SRE Verify
Checks whether the fix actually worked.
Bits AI SRE Learn
Improves future work from resolved outcomes.
Bits AI SRE 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.