# Datadog investigates inside Datadog. Cleric investigates all of production.

> Bits AI SRE investigates inside Datadog. Cleric investigates all of production across alerts, systems, and teams.
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Bits AI helps inside Datadog telemetry, while Cleric also handles issues across your full production environment.

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**Cleric is designed to work with Datadog.** Cleric connects to your Datadog metrics, logs, and traces. It adds cross-stack investigation that goes beyond Datadog telemetry.

## 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 or Microsoft Teams 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 more](https://cleric.ai/technology.md) | 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. [Learn more](https://cleric.ai/technology.md) | 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 | What it covers | 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 |

## 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

Setup takes minutes. Read-only by default. See how Cleric investigates production issues across your full stack.

- Start free trial: https://cleric.ai/start
- Explore the product: https://demo.cleric.ai
- Book a demo: https://cleric.ai/demo
- All comparisons: https://cleric.ai/compare.md
- Cleric vs AWS DevOps Agent: https://cleric.ai/compare/aws.md
- Cleric vs Azure SRE Agent: https://cleric.ai/compare/azure.md
- Cleric vs Grafana Assistant: https://cleric.ai/compare/grafana.md
- Cleric vs PagerDuty SRE Agent: https://cleric.ai/compare/pagerduty.md

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.