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Datadog: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Datadog is a cloud platform for monitoring and securing infrastructure and applications. It covers observability for infrastructure, applications, logs and data, digital experience monitoring, software delivery tooling such as CI visibility and testing, and service management with incident response. Datadog also offers security products, including cloud security, code security and a cloud SIEM. The service is delivered as a hosted platform and used through a web application, while a Datadog Agent runs on the monitored systems. The user-space components of that agent are published under the Apache 2.0 licence.

Datadog, Inc. was founded and is headquartered in New York City and is listed on Nasdaq, so US jurisdiction applies, which is relevant for the CLOUD Act. Customers choose a regional site: the EU1 site is located in Germany, while other sites are in the US, Japan, Australia and the United Kingdom. Datadog lists AWS, Google and Microsoft Azure as infrastructure subprocessors, all US companies. The platform itself is closed source and operated by Datadog.

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Sovereignty score

27 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-210
Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (US, EU)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
Key management with a non-European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-615
Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 2, 2026

Headquarters	US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	US, EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Compliance documents	3 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signal	AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category	Network & Monitoring
Type	Product
Website	datadoghq.com ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Datadog

The European alternatives to Datadog come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Datadog

Datadog is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

Datadog hosts data in US, EU. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

Datadog is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Datadog together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Datadog?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Datadog include Centreon, Checkmk and Icinga. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Datadog?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Datadog include Centreon, Checkmk, Icinga, Zabbix, ntopng and openITCOCKPIT. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Datadog GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Datadog is headquartered in US and hosts data in US, EU. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 2, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

Data Processing Agreement (DPA): datadoghq.com/legal/
Subprocessor list: datadoghq.com/legal/subprocessors
Security page / trust center: datadoghq.com/trust/

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

CSA STARConfirmed in registry

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

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