Compare Amazon CloudWatch and Datadog 
At a Glance
Market Segments
Enterprise (39.5% of reviews)
Mid-Market (48.5% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
$0 Per host, per month
Amazon CloudWatch
Star Rating
(380)4.3 out of 5
Market Segments
Enterprise (39.5% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
Learn more about Amazon CloudWatchDatadog
Star Rating
(541)4.3 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (48.5% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
$0 Per host, per month
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AI Generated Summary
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- Users report that Datadog excels in Alerting with a score of 9.2, while Amazon CloudWatch follows closely with a score of 9.1. Reviewers mention that Datadog's alerting system is highly customizable, allowing for tailored notifications based on specific metrics.
- Reviewers mention that Datadog's Multi-Site Monitoring feature scores 9.0, which is particularly beneficial for organizations with distributed systems. In contrast, Amazon CloudWatch's capabilities in this area are not as robust, leading users to feel that they have less visibility across multiple locations.
- Users on G2 highlight Datadog's superior Logging functionality, scoring 9.3 compared to Amazon CloudWatch's 8.4. Reviewers say that Datadog's logging capabilities provide deeper insights and better integration with other monitoring tools, making it easier to troubleshoot issues.
- G2 users report that Datadog's Real-Time Monitoring is rated at 9.2, which is higher than Amazon CloudWatch's 8.6. Users mention that Datadog's real-time analytics allow for immediate response to performance issues, enhancing operational efficiency.
- Reviewers mention that Datadog's Data Visualization features score 8.9, providing intuitive dashboards that are easy to customize. In comparison, Amazon CloudWatch's visualization tools, scoring 8.0, are seen as less user-friendly, making it harder for teams to derive insights quickly.
- Users say that Datadog's Automation capabilities, with a score of 8.6, are more advanced than those of Amazon CloudWatch, which also scores 8.2. Reviewers highlight that Datadog's automation features streamline incident response processes, reducing manual intervention and improving overall efficiency.
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Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
Amazon CloudWatch
No pricing availableDatadog
Free
$0
Per host, per month
Core collection and visualization features
- Discussion Group Supported
- 1-Day Metric Retention
- Up to 5 Hosts
Free Trial
Amazon CloudWatch
No trial information availableDatadog
Free Trial is available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
8.6
289
8.7
465
Ease of Use
8.1
289
8.2
469
Ease of Setup
8.4
147
8.4
244
Ease of Admin
8.5
142
8.3
212
Quality of Support
8.3
264
8.3
413
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
8.7
134
8.5
199
Product Direction (% positive)
8.1
279
8.9
450
Features by Category
Operations
8.7
42
7.3
5
8.6
46
8.0
5
7.4
37
6.7
7
8.6
49
Not enough data
Cost Optimization
8.4
39
7.6
7
7.9
39
7.3
5
8.1
42
Not enough data
Administration
8.4
52
8.0
5
7.9
52
7.8
6
8.3
43
Not enough data
Functionality
Not enough data
8.6
43
Not enough data
9.2
57
Not enough data
9.0
51
Not enough data
8.7
44
Not enough data
8.8
46
Not enough data
8.8
39
Functionality
Not enough data
9.2
95
Not enough data
9.1
96
Not enough data
9.3
81
Not enough data
8.9
96
Not enough data
8.8
80
Not enough data
8.9
85
Functionality
Not enough data
9.2
46
Not enough data
9.2
51
Not enough data
8.1
37
Not enough data
8.4
39
Management
Not enough data
8.6
43
Not enough data
9.0
44
Not enough data
8.7
41
Monitoring
8.8
36
8.9
108
8.4
35
8.6
104
8.0
32
8.8
99
8.6
36
8.7
118
Administration
8.8
33
8.5
104
7.5
26
8.5
84
8.3
30
8.2
83
Analysis
8.2
32
8.5
102
8.0
34
8.8
106
8.2
28
Feature Not Available
Automation
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
8.0
5
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
8.6
7
Functionality
Not enough data
8.8
8
Not enough data
7.7
8
Not enough data
7.6
7
Not enough data
9.2
8
Incident Management
Not enough data
8.5
10
Not enough data
9.2
10
Not enough data
9.0
10
Functionality
Not enough data
9.2
14
Not enough data
8.6
15
Not enough data
9.4
19
Issue Resolution
Not enough data
9.1
17
Not enough data
9.2
14
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Management
Not enough data
8.6
17
Not enough data
9.6
17
Not enough data
8.9
17
Generative AI
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Visibility
Not enough data
8.8
76
Not enough data
9.0
75
Not enough data
8.8
69
Monitoring and Management
Not enough data
8.2
71
Not enough data
8.6
73
Not enough data
8.9
77
Visibility
Not enough data
8.8
67
Not enough data
8.6
61
Not enough data
8.1
59
Monitoring and Management
Not enough data
8.5
60
Not enough data
7.5
55
Not enough data
8.3
57
Not enough data
9.0
60
Not enough data
8.8
56
Not enough data
8.2
61
Cloud environment support
Not enough data
8.0
53
Not enough data
7.9
50
Functionality
Not enough data
8.4
32
Not enough data
8.6
32
Not enough data
8.8
34
Not enough data
7.8
28
Management
Not enough data
8.4
31
Not enough data
8.5
34
Not enough data
8.1
31
Not enough data
9.0
36
Data Sources
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Analytics
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Metrics
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Device Recognition
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Provisioning
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Data Preparation
Not enough data
8.5
53
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.4
52
|
Verified
Not enough data
7.9
50
|
Verified
Not enough data
7.8
50
|
Verified
Analysis
Not enough data
8.5
48
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.4
55
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.7
56
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.5
59
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.7
49
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.7
47
|
Verified
Visualization
Not enough data
8.9
61
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.7
51
|
Verified
Monitoring
Not enough data
8.5
93
Not enough data
8.9
85
Not enough data
8.9
95
Not enough data
7.3
80
Not enough data
8.4
86
Response
Not enough data
8.8
102
Not enough data
8.8
90
Not enough data
7.9
83
Performance
Not enough data
8.4
97
Not enough data
8.2
83
Functionality
Not enough data
8.4
85
Not enough data
8.0
77
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
8.5
91
Alerts management
Not enough data
8.7
36
Not enough data
8.0
38
Not enough data
8.6
40
Monitoring
Not enough data
8.7
31
Not enough data
9.2
34
Not enough data
8.7
36
Not enough data
9.2
31
Automation
Not enough data
8.5
31
Not enough data
8.6
29
Analysis
Not enough data
8.2
34
Not enough data
8.4
37
Not enough data
9.3
36
Not enough data
8.5
35
Issue Resolution
Not enough data
8.4
30
Not enough data
7.7
33
Not enough data
8.6
28
Generative AI
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Data Management - Observability Pipeline
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
7.5
6
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
6.4
6
Performance - Observability Pipeline
Not enough data
5.7
5
Not enough data
8.1
6
Not enough data
6.7
6
AI - Observability Pipeline
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Compliance - Observability Pipeline
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Response
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
8.0
40
Records
Not enough data
9.3
47
Not enough data
9.0
45
Not enough data
8.5
52
Management
Not enough data
9.3
48
Not enough data
8.4
44
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Generative AI
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)Hide 10 FeaturesShow 10 Features
Not enough data
8.9
105
Network Management
Not enough data
9.2
10
Not enough data
8.7
10
Not enough data
9.4
11
Incident Management
Not enough data
9.2
11
Not enough data
9.2
10
Not enough data
9.1
11
Security Intelligence
Not enough data
8.2
11
Not enough data
8.3
9
Not enough data
9.2
10
Not enough data
8.8
12
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
Amazon CloudWatch and Datadog are categorized as Cloud Cost Management and Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
Unique Categories
Amazon CloudWatch has no unique categories
Datadog is categorized as Observability Pipeline, Observability Solution Suites, Enterprise Monitoring, Server Monitoring, Log Monitoring, AIOps Platforms, Network Traffic Analysis (NTA), Database Monitoring, IoT Device Management Platforms, IoT Analytics Platforms, Website Monitoring, IT Alerting, Container Monitoring, Log Analysis, Incident Response, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), API Marketplace, Application Performance Monitoring (APM), and Network Monitoring
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
Amazon CloudWatch
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Datadog
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Small-Business
(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market
(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise
(> 1000 emp.)
Reviewers' Industry
Information Technology and Services
26.3%
Computer Software
18.3%
Internet
6.5%
Financial Services
4.1%
Marketing and Advertising
2.9%
Other
41.9%
Information Technology and Services
20.2%
Computer Software
17.9%
Financial Services
8.1%
Internet
5.1%
Retail
3.2%
Other
45.5%
Most Helpful Reviews
Amazon CloudWatch
Most Helpful Favorable Review
Dorrin P.
Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
Ability to monitor services' stats and alert on them based on my desired limits. Also graphing the stats.
Most Helpful Critical Review
Jon R.
Verified User in Broadcast Media
- Can only receive notifications by email - User interface is difficult to use - Needs some
Datadog
Most Helpful Favorable Review
Debabrata P.
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
With datadog you can quickly get up and running. May be the easiest among all out there. Since it enables you to put everything into one dashboard irrespective of their zone,VPC or environment type we can have one bookmarked place to look at for the first...
Most Helpful Critical Review
Verified User in Computer Software
As described in the previous section, the lack of support resulting in us not being able to resolve a deployment mistake and resulting billing issue.
Dorrin P.
Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
Ability to monitor services' stats and alert on them based on my desired limits. Also graphing the stats.
Debabrata P.
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
With datadog you can quickly get up and running. May be the easiest among all out there. Since it enables you to put everything into one dashboard irrespective of their zone,VPC or environment type we can have one bookmarked place to look at for the first...
Jon R.
Verified User in Broadcast Media
- Can only receive notifications by email - User interface is difficult to use - Needs some
Verified User in Computer Software
As described in the previous section, the lack of support resulting in us not being able to resolve a deployment mistake and resulting billing issue.
Discussions
What is AWS CloudWatch metrics?
1 comment
IO
The metrics of AWS CloudWatch are numerical data that represent the performance and state of Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources. They are collected from...Read more
What can CloudWatch monitor?
1 comment
GM
Every resource in AWS environment and on-premises tooRead more
Amazon CloudWatch has no more discussions with answers
Does it preserves history of logs?
1 comment
AN
Depends on your plan, log retention can be 7,15, 30 days etc, for long term you need to setup s3 archivingRead more
What is the use of Datadog?
1 comment
CJ
Datadog is a software platform that facilitates data sharing across various teams within an organization, thereby breaking down silos between development,...Read more
Does Datadog use AWS?
1 comment
IG
Yes, the backbone of Datadog infrastructure is sitting within AWS.Read more
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