Datadog
A broad SaaS observability platform covering infrastructure metrics, APM, logs, synthetics and security.
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About Datadog
Datadog is the hosted observability suite many cloud-native companies end up on. An agent on each host or container ships metrics, traces and logs to one place, and from there you get dashboards, alerting, APM, real user monitoring, synthetic checks, database monitoring, incident management and a security product line. Its biggest strength is coverage: more than a thousand integrations mean most cloud services, databases and frameworks report useful data within minutes of setup. The weakness is the bill. Each product is priced separately, by host, by GB of logs, by custom metric or by test run, so costs are hard to predict and tend to climb as teams turn more things on. Pricing is per product with annual and on-demand rates; a small free tier covers a handful of hosts with short retention, and there is a free trial. It runs as a web app with mobile apps for alerts, and agents for Linux, Windows, macOS and Kubernetes.
Best for: Cloud-heavy teams that want metrics, traces, logs and alerts in one hosted product and can budget for it.
Pros and cons
What works
- Very wide integration catalogue that works with little setup
- Metrics, traces and logs are linked in one interface
- Mature dashboards, monitors and on-call features
Why people leave
- Per-product, per-host pricing makes bills hard to forecast
- Custom metrics and log volume get expensive quickly
- No self-hosted option
Top Datadog alternatives
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New Relic66.5Usage-based pricing with a generous free data allowance instead of per-host fees.
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Grafana62.6Open-source dashboards plus a hosted cloud, so you can avoid lock-in and control costs.
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Dynatrace59.6Similar all-in-one enterprise scope with stronger automatic discovery and root-cause analysis.
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SigNoz57.2OpenTelemetry-native and self-hostable, covering APM, logs and metrics for far less money.
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Honeycomb55.3Better for digging into high-cardinality trace data when debugging distributed systems.
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Datadog: common questions
Is Datadog free?
Datadog has a free plan and paid plans. Free tier: Up to 5 hosts, 1-day metric retention (checked on Datadog's own site).
Is Datadog open source?
No, Datadog is not open source. Open-source alternatives include Grafana and SigNoz.
What platforms does Datadog run on?
Datadog is available for Web, iOS and Android.
What are the best alternatives to Datadog?
The highest-ranked Datadog alternatives right now are New Relic, Grafana and Dynatrace. See the full ranked list for pricing, platforms and verified facts.