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Datadog
Datadog
(541)
4.3 out of 5
Datadog
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Grafana Labs
Grafana Labs
(131)
4.5 out of 5
Grafana Labs
By Grafana Labs
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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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$0 Per host, per month
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Grafana Labs
Grafana Labs
Star Rating
(131)4.5 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (45.2% of reviews)
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Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
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  • Users report that Datadog excels in Alerting with a score of 9.2, while Grafana Labs has a lower score of 8.1. Reviewers mention that Datadog's alerting system is highly customizable and effective in notifying teams of critical issues in real-time.
  • Reviewers mention that Grafana Labs shines in Data Visualization, scoring 9.6 compared to Datadog's 8.9. Users say that Grafana's dashboards are visually appealing and allow for extensive customization, making it easier to interpret complex data.
  • Users on G2 report that Datadog's Logging capabilities are superior, with a score of 9.3, while Grafana Labs falls short at 6.9. Reviewers say that Datadog provides comprehensive log management features that help in troubleshooting and performance monitoring.
  • G2 users highlight that Datadog's Multi-Cloud Management is rated at 6.7, indicating room for improvement, while Grafana Labs has a better score of 7.4. Users report that Grafana offers more straightforward integration with various cloud services.
  • Reviewers mention that Datadog's Real-Time Monitoring is highly effective, scoring 9.2, while Grafana Labs scores 8.6. Users say that Datadog provides immediate insights into system performance, which is crucial for proactive management.
  • Users report that both products have similar scores in Performance Monitoring, with Datadog at 9.2 and Grafana Labs at 8.5. However, reviewers mention that Datadog's performance monitoring tools are more robust and user-friendly, making it easier to track and analyze system performance.
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Pricing
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Datadog
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Free Trial is available
Grafana Labs
Free Trial is available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
8.7
465
8.7
99
Ease of Use
8.2
469
8.4
101
Ease of Setup
8.4
244
8.2
54
Ease of Admin
8.3
212
8.6
48
Quality of Support
8.3
413
7.9
77
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
8.5
199
8.3
39
Product Direction (% positive)
8.9
450
8.8
97
Features by Category
Cloud Cost ManagementHide 10 FeaturesShow 10 Features
7.5
40
Not enough data
Operations
7.3
5
Not enough data
8.0
5
Not enough data
6.7
7
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Cost Optimization
7.6
7
Not enough data
7.3
5
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Administration
8.0
5
Not enough data
7.8
6
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Website MonitoringHide 6 FeaturesShow 6 Features
8.9
280
Not enough data
Functionality
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
Not enough data
Database MonitoringHide 6 FeaturesShow 6 Features
9.0
533
8.5
47
Functionality
9.2
95
9.6
8
9.1
96
8.1
8
9.3
81
6.9
7
8.9
96
9.0
8
8.8
80
7.5
8
8.9
85
9.6
8
Network MonitoringHide 7 FeaturesShow 7 Features
8.7
301
Not enough data
Functionality
9.2
46
Not enough data
9.2
51
Not enough data
8.1
37
Not enough data
8.4
39
Not enough data
Management
8.6
43
Not enough data
9.0
44
Not enough data
8.7
41
Not enough data
Cloud Infrastructure MonitoringHide 10 FeaturesShow 10 Features
8.6
908
8.2
131
Monitoring
8.9
108
9.0
14
8.6
104
8.6
13
8.8
99
8.7
14
8.7
118
8.8
14
Administration
8.5
104
8.6
13
8.5
84
7.4
13
8.2
83
7.3
13
Analysis
8.5
102
7.4
12
8.8
106
9.6
14
Feature Not Available
6.5
11
Network Traffic Analysis (NTA)Hide 11 FeaturesShow 11 Features
8.5
73
Not enough data
Automation
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
8.0
5
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
8.6
7
Not enough data
Functionality
8.8
8
Not enough data
7.7
8
Not enough data
7.6
7
Not enough data
9.2
8
Not enough data
Incident Management
8.5
10
Not enough data
9.2
10
Not enough data
9.0
10
Not enough data
Incident ManagementHide 8 FeaturesShow 8 Features
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
Management Tools
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Generative AI
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
AIOps PlatformsHide 11 FeaturesShow 11 Features
9.1
130
Not enough data
Functionality
9.2
14
Not enough data
8.6
15
Not enough data
9.4
19
Not enough data
Issue Resolution
9.1
17
Not enough data
9.2
14
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Management
8.6
17
Not enough data
9.6
17
Not enough data
8.9
17
Not enough data
Generative AI
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Log MonitoringHide 6 FeaturesShow 6 Features
8.7
441
8.2
65
Visibility
8.8
76
9.7
11
9.0
75
8.0
11
8.8
69
7.6
11
Monitoring and Management
8.2
71
7.5
10
8.6
73
7.9
11
8.9
77
8.6
11
Server MonitoringHide 11 FeaturesShow 11 Features
8.3
639
Not enough data
Visibility
8.8
67
Not enough data
8.6
61
Not enough data
8.1
59
Not enough data
Monitoring and Management
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
Not enough data
Cloud environment support
8.0
53
Not enough data
7.9
50
Not enough data
Enterprise MonitoringHide 8 FeaturesShow 8 Features
8.5
258
Not enough data
Functionality
8.4
32
Not enough data
8.6
32
Not enough data
8.8
34
Not enough data
7.8
28
Not enough data
Management
8.4
31
Not enough data
8.5
34
Not enough data
8.1
31
Not enough data
9.0
36
Not enough data
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
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Log AnalysisHide 12 FeaturesShow 12 Features
8.5
631
Not enough data
Data Preparation
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
Not enough data
Analysis
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
Not enough data
Visualization
8.9
61
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.7
51
|
Verified
Not enough data
Application Performance Monitoring (APM)Hide 14 FeaturesShow 14 Features
8.4
1,147
8.1
170
Monitoring
8.5
93
8.6
13
8.9
85
8.6
13
8.9
95
8.6
13
7.3
80
7.5
12
8.4
86
8.1
12
Response
8.8
102
9.2
13
8.8
90
8.1
12
7.9
83
8.2
12
Performance
8.4
97
7.6
13
8.2
83
8.2
12
Functionality
8.4
85
7.6
12
8.0
77
7.6
11
Feature Not Available
7.6
11
8.5
91
8.5
11
Container MonitoringHide 16 FeaturesShow 16 Features
8.6
539
8.5
294
Alerts management
8.7
36
8.9
18
8.0
38
8.8
20
8.6
40
9.0
21
Monitoring
8.7
31
8.4
20
9.2
34
8.6
21
8.7
36
8.2
19
9.2
31
8.6
18
Automation
8.5
31
8.2
16
8.6
29
8.5
18
Analysis
8.2
34
8.4
19
8.4
37
8.3
19
9.3
36
9.1
21
8.5
35
8.6
19
Issue Resolution
8.4
30
8.1
15
7.7
33
8.2
14
8.6
28
8.4
16
IT AlertingHide 1 FeatureShow 1 Feature
Not enough data
Not enough data
Generative AI
Feature Not Available
Feature Not Available
Observability PipelineHide 13 FeaturesShow 13 Features
6.9
29
Not enough data
Data Management - Observability Pipeline
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
Not enough data
Performance - Observability Pipeline
5.7
5
Not enough data
8.1
6
Not enough data
6.7
6
Not enough data
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
8.7
276
Not enough data
Response
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
8.0
40
Not enough data
Records
9.3
47
Not enough data
9.0
45
Not enough data
8.5
52
Not enough data
Management
9.3
48
Not enough data
8.4
44
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Generative AI
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)Hide 10 FeaturesShow 10 Features
8.9
105
Not enough data
Network Management
9.2
10
Not enough data
8.7
10
Not enough data
9.4
11
Not enough data
Incident Management
9.2
11
Not enough data
9.2
10
Not enough data
9.1
11
Not enough data
Security Intelligence
8.2
11
Not enough data
8.3
9
Not enough data
9.2
10
Not enough data
8.8
12
Not enough data
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
Datadog
Datadog
Grafana Labs
Grafana Labs
Unique Categories
Datadog
Grafana Labs
Grafana Labs is categorized as AWS Marketplace and Incident Management
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
Datadog
Datadog
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
20.0%
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
48.5%
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
31.5%
Grafana Labs
Grafana Labs
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
27.8%
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
45.2%
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
27.0%
Reviewers' Industry
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%
Grafana Labs
Grafana Labs
Information Technology and Services
23.8%
Computer Software
23.0%
Financial Services
5.6%
Telecommunications
4.8%
Internet
4.8%
Other
38.1%
Most Helpful Reviews
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.

Grafana Labs
Grafana Labs
Most Helpful Favorable Review
Gulustan Y.
GY
Gulustan Y.
Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad

charts are very presize and understandable

Most Helpful Critical Review
Abhishek S.
AS
Abhishek S.
Verified User in Computer Software

The query-based interface to generate charts is very old school and primitive. Drag and drop interfaces are available in every BI tool, and the majority are shifting to Natural Language query semantics.

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Discussions
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
Does Datadog use AWS?
1 comment
IG
Yes, the backbone of Datadog infrastructure is sitting within AWS.Read more
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Grafana Labs
Grafana Labs Discussions
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1 comment
Prakash C.
PC
Its help to Monitoring, analysis of our app and also provide graphic visualisation and alert Tigger system.Read more
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