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AppSignal
AppSignal
(16)
4.8 out of 5
AppSignal
By AppSignal B.V.
Datadog
Datadog
(541)
4.3 out of 5
Datadog
By Datadog
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At a Glance
AppSignal
AppSignal
Star Rating
(16)4.8 out of 5
Market Segments
Small-Business (73.3% of reviews)
Information
Entry-Level Pricing
Starting at $23.00
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Datadog
Datadog
Star Rating
(541)4.3 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (48.5% of reviews)
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Entry-Level Pricing
$0 Per host, per month
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  • Users report that Datadog excels in its Multi-Cloud Management capabilities, scoring 6.7, but reviewers mention that it could improve in Scheduling with a score of 7.3. In contrast, AppSignal shines with a higher score of 8.5 in Multi-Cloud Management, indicating a more robust feature set for users managing multiple cloud environments.
  • Reviewers mention that Datadog's Alerting functionality is strong, scoring 9.2, but users on G2 highlight that AppSignal offers a more user-friendly experience with a score of 9.6, making it easier to set up and manage alerts effectively.
  • Users say that Datadog provides comprehensive Logging features with a score of 9.3, but reviewers mention that AppSignal's Real-Time Analytics at 8.7 and Performance Monitoring at 9.2 offer a more intuitive interface for analyzing logs and performance metrics.
  • G2 users report that Datadog's Data Visualization features score 8.9, but users on G2 highlight that AppSignal's Dashboards and Visualizations at 8.5 are easier to customize and interpret, enhancing the overall user experience.
  • Reviewers mention that Datadog's Quality of Support is rated at 8.3, while AppSignal boasts a perfect score of 10.0, indicating that users find AppSignal's support to be more responsive and helpful when issues arise.
  • Users report that Datadog's Performance Monitoring is robust with a score of 9.2, but reviewers mention that AppSignal's Improvement Suggestions at 8.1 provide actionable insights that help users optimize their performance more effectively.
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Entry-Level Pricing
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Starting at $23.00
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Ratings
Meets Requirements
9.5
10
8.7
465
Ease of Use
9.6
9
8.2
469
Ease of Setup
9.2
6
8.4
244
Ease of Admin
9.3
5
8.3
212
Quality of Support
10.0
11
8.3
413
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
10.0
5
8.5
199
Product Direction (% positive)
10.0
10
8.9
450
Features by Category
Cloud Cost ManagementHide 10 FeaturesShow 10 Features
Not enough data
7.5
40
Operations
Not enough data
7.3
5
Not enough data
8.0
5
Not enough data
6.7
7
Not enough data
Not enough data
Cost Optimization
Not enough data
7.6
7
Not enough data
7.3
5
Not enough data
Not enough data
Administration
Not enough data
8.0
5
Not enough data
7.8
6
Not enough data
Not enough data
Website MonitoringHide 6 FeaturesShow 6 Features
Not enough data
8.9
280
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
Database MonitoringHide 6 FeaturesShow 6 Features
Not enough data
9.0
533
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
Network MonitoringHide 7 FeaturesShow 7 Features
Not enough data
8.7
301
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
Cloud Infrastructure MonitoringHide 10 FeaturesShow 10 Features
Not enough data
8.6
908
Monitoring
Not enough data
8.9
108
Not enough data
8.6
104
Not enough data
8.8
99
Not enough data
8.7
118
Administration
Not enough data
8.5
104
Not enough data
8.5
84
Not enough data
8.2
83
Analysis
Not enough data
8.5
102
Not enough data
8.8
106
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Network Traffic Analysis (NTA)Hide 11 FeaturesShow 11 Features
Not enough data
8.5
73
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
AIOps PlatformsHide 11 FeaturesShow 11 Features
Not enough data
9.1
130
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
Log MonitoringHide 6 FeaturesShow 6 Features
Not enough data
8.7
441
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
Server MonitoringHide 11 FeaturesShow 11 Features
Not enough data
8.3
639
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
Enterprise MonitoringHide 8 FeaturesShow 8 Features
Not enough data
8.5
258
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
IoT Analytics PlatformsHide 11 FeaturesShow 11 Features
Not enough data
Not enough data
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
IoT Device Management PlatformsHide 10 FeaturesShow 10 Features
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
Log AnalysisHide 12 FeaturesShow 12 Features
Not enough data
8.5
631
Data Preparation
Not enough data
8.5
53
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Verified
Not enough data
8.4
52
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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
Application Performance Monitoring (APM)Hide 14 FeaturesShow 14 Features
Not enough data
8.4
1,147
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
Container MonitoringHide 16 FeaturesShow 16 Features
Not enough data
8.6
539
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
IT AlertingHide 1 FeatureShow 1 Feature
Not enough data
Not enough data
Generative AI
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Observability PipelineHide 13 FeaturesShow 13 Features
Not enough data
6.9
29
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
Incident ResponseHide 12 FeaturesShow 12 Features
Not enough data
8.7
276
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
AppSignal
AppSignal
Datadog
Datadog
AppSignal and Datadog are categorized as Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Unique Categories
AppSignal
AppSignal has no unique categories
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Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
AppSignal
AppSignal
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
73.3%
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
13.3%
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
13.3%
Datadog
Datadog
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
20.0%
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
48.5%
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
31.5%
Reviewers' Industry
AppSignal
AppSignal
Computer Software
60.0%
Information Technology and Services
13.3%
Sports
6.7%
Marketing and Advertising
6.7%
Financial Services
6.7%
Other
6.7%
Datadog
Datadog
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
AppSignal
AppSignal
Most Helpful Favorable Review
George C.
GC
George C.
Verified User in Marketing and Advertising

Besides the inherent value they provide, I just want to share a quick scenario. We hired a developer that signed us up for all of these Softwares over a year ago and I thought I had canceled all of them but this past year has been a crazy journey (like I...

Most Helpful Critical Review
Datadog
Datadog
Most Helpful Favorable Review
Debabrata P.
DP
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
G
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.

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Discussions
AppSignal
AppSignal Discussions
What is AppSignal used for?
1 comment
Official Response from AppSignal
AppSignal is used by teams of all shapes and sizes who want to monitor their application's performance. It is an Application Performance Monitoring tool...Read more
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Datadog
Datadog Discussions
Does it preserves history of logs?
1 comment
Alon N.
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
Chirag J.
CJ
Datadog is a software platform that facilitates data sharing across various teams within an organization, thereby breaking down silos between development,...Read more
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