Rukshan Gunawardana
Sophie Wang
Jason Hansen
As state and local governments modernize critical technology systems, they must also meet growing demand for cybersecurity, reliability, operational efficiency, and fiscal accountability. From citizen services and public safety operations to transportation networks, education systems, and emerging AI initiatives, agencies are managing increasingly complex environments with limited resources.
Today, Datadog has achieved GovRAMP Authorization at the High impact level, reinforcing Datadog for Government’s commitment to delivering observability and security for state, local, tribal, territorial, and education (SLTTE) organizations.
Building on Datadog’s FedRAMP® High certification, GovRAMP High authorization helps state and local agencies, educational institutions, and their technology partners modernize mission-critical systems with greater confidence, security, and operational visibility.
Helping government agencies move beyond fragmented monitoring
Many government organizations rely on monitoring environments built from multiple legacy tools. Separate solutions handle applications, logs, network visibility, security, databases, and infrastructure monitoring. Over time, these disconnected tools create operational silos, duplicate dashboards, inconsistent data, slower investigations, and higher costs.
Datadog for Government helps agencies consolidate monitoring stacks into a single platform that unites metrics, logs, traces, network telemetry, security signals, database performance data, and AI observability. By correlating telemetry across the entire technology stack, teams gain a shared operational view that can accelerate troubleshooting and improve resilience.
Why GovRAMP High matters
GovRAMP provides a standardized security framework that enables state and local government organizations to evaluate cloud service providers against NIST 800-53 Rev. 5 controls.
GovRAMP also serves as a common security baseline that many state-specific cloud risk management programs align with or build upon. For example, programs such as TX-RAMP (Texas) leverage similar NIST 800-53-based security requirements, helping simplify security assessments across multiple jurisdictions.
Achieving GovRAMP High authorization demonstrates Datadog’s commitment to meeting rigorous security requirements while helping agencies modernize mission-critical systems with enhanced security, continuous monitoring, and greater resilience.
Combined with Datadog’s FedRAMP High certification, GovRAMP High authorization gives state and local government organizations an observability and security platform built to support sensitive workloads.
Supporting mission-critical government operations
Agencies are facing growing cybersecurity requirements, tighter budgets, and rising expectations for digital service delivery. To meet these challenges, they need complete visibility across emergency response systems, citizen-facing applications, public safety operations, transportation infrastructure, educational services, and administrative systems.
Datadog helps agencies:
Gain end-to-end visibility across infrastructure, applications, databases, networks, and cloud environments
Accelerate incident detection and response with unified telemetry and correlated investigations
Consolidate monitoring and security tools to reduce operational complexity
Improve service reliability and application performance
Control costs with flexible data ingestion, indexing, and retention options
Modernize legacy environments while maintaining operational continuity
Improve digital experiences for citizens and constituents through proactive monitoring of public-facing services
Simplifying operational visibility with Datadog dashboards
Datadog dashboards provide a centralized view of infrastructure, applications, cloud services, and operational metrics. Using a consistent tagging model, agencies can reduce sprawl, standardize monitoring across teams, and quickly pivot from high-level views to the logs, traces, and telemetry data needed to investigate issues.
Correlating network performance across the full technology stack
Datadog Network Path helps agencies visualize traffic across routers, firewalls, SD-WAN devices, cloud networks, and application services. By correlating network telemetry with infrastructure and application performance data, teams can identify whether service disruptions stem from the network, underlying infrastructure, or the application itself.
Managing log costs with Datadog Log Management
Datadog Log Management and Observability Pipelines help agencies collect, process, route, and retain log data more efficiently. Teams can filter and optimize logs before ingestion, control indexing costs, and investigate issues across logs, metrics, traces, and security signals directly from the platform.
Improving database performance with Database Monitoring
Datadog Database Monitoring provides query-level visibility into database performance across self-managed and managed environments. Teams can identify slow queries, analyze execution plans, and correlate database behavior with application and infrastructure telemetry to help resolve performance issues before they impact users.
Monitoring and governing AI-powered applications with Agent Observability
Datadog Agent Observability provides visibility into AI agents and agentic workflows, helping agencies understand how AI systems interact with models, tools, and downstream services. Teams can trace agent execution paths, monitor performance and costs, and identify failures or unexpected behavior as AI-powered services move into production.
Advancing our commitment to the public sector
GovRAMP High authorization marks an important step in Datadog’s continued investment in the public sector. As state and local governments continue to modernize their technology infrastructure and digital services, Datadog remains invested in helping agencies strengthen operational resilience, improve cost efficiency, reduce complexity, improve security, and deliver reliable experiences for the communities they serve.
Continuing the conversation
To learn more about observability and compliance in GovRAMP High and FedRAMP High environments, join us at AWS Summit Washington DC.
For state and local government organizations evaluating Datadog for Government, request a demo to see how Datadog helps agencies improve reliability, strengthen security, and modernize mission-critical services. In the meantime, you can explore the platform with a 14-day free trial in our FedRAMP High-certified GovCloud environment.
