Compare Datadog and Grafana Labs 
At a Glance
Market Segments
Mid-Market (48.4% of reviews)
Mid-Market (45.2% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
$0 Per host, per month
No pricing available
Datadog
Star Rating
(544)4.3 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (48.4% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
$0 Per host, per month
Free Trial is available
Browse all 3 pricing plansGrafana Labs
Star Rating
(131)4.5 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (45.2% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
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AI Generated Summary
AI-generated. Powered by real user reviews.
- Users report that Datadog excels in alerting functionality, with a score of 9.2, while Grafana Labs has a lower alerting score of 8.1. Reviewers mention that Datadog's multi-channel alerting feature is particularly effective in ensuring timely notifications.
- Reviewers mention that Grafana Labs shines in data visualization, achieving a score of 9.6 compared to Datadog's 8.9. Users on G2 appreciate Grafana's customizable dashboards, which allow for more tailored visual representations of data.
- Users say that Datadog's logging capabilities are superior, scoring 9.3, while Grafana Labs falls short with a score of 6.9. Reviewers highlight that Datadog's logging feature provides comprehensive insights into system performance, making it easier to troubleshoot issues.
- G2 users report that Datadog's performance monitoring is robust, with a score of 9.2, while Grafana Labs has a lower score of 8.5. Users mention that Datadog's real-time monitoring capabilities are particularly beneficial for maintaining system health.
- Reviewers mention that Grafana Labs offers better multi-cloud management features, scoring 7.4 compared to Datadog's 8.5. Users report that Grafana's integration with various cloud services is seamless, making it easier to manage resources across platforms.
- Users on G2 say that Datadog's automation features are highly effective, scoring 8.6, while Grafana Labs has a lower score of 6.8. Reviewers highlight that Datadog's resolution automation helps streamline incident response, reducing downtime significantly.
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Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
Datadog
Free
$0
Per host, per month
Core collection and visualization features
- Discussion Group Supported
- 1-Day Metric Retention
- Up to 5 Hosts
Grafana Labs
No pricing availableFree Trial
Datadog
Free Trial is available
Grafana Labs
Free Trial is available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
8.7
468
8.7
99
Ease of Use
8.2
472
8.4
101
Ease of Setup
8.4
247
8.2
54
Ease of Admin
8.3
213
8.6
48
Quality of Support
8.3
416
7.9
77
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
8.5
200
8.3
39
Product Direction (% positive)
8.9
453
8.8
97
Features by Category
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
Functionality
8.6
45
Not enough data
9.3
59
Not enough data
9.0
53
Not enough data
8.7
46
Not enough data
8.9
48
Not enough data
8.9
41
Not enough data
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
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
Monitoring - Network Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Management
8.6
43
Not enough data
9.0
44
Not enough data
8.7
41
Not enough data
Analytics - Network Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Security - Network Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Network Performance - Network Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
AI Automation - Network Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
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
Automation
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
8.1
6
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
8.5
8
Not enough data
Functionality
8.7
9
Not enough data
7.8
9
Not enough data
7.7
8
Not enough data
9.1
9
Not enough data
Incident Management
8.5
11
Not enough data
9.1
11
Not enough data
8.9
11
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
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
Visibility
8.8
77
9.7
11
9.0
76
8.0
11
8.8
70
7.6
11
Monitoring and Management
8.2
72
7.5
10
8.6
74
7.9
11
9.0
78
8.6
11
Visibility
8.8
68
Not enough data
8.6
62
Not enough data
8.1
60
Not enough data
Monitoring and Management
8.5
61
Not enough data
7.6
56
Not enough data
8.3
58
Not enough data
9.0
61
Not enough data
8.8
57
Not enough data
8.2
62
Not enough data
Cloud environment support
8.1
54
Not enough data
8.0
51
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
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
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Data Preparation
8.5
54
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.5
53
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.0
51
|
Verified
Not enough data
7.8
51
|
Verified
Not enough data
Analysis
8.5
49
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.4
56
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.7
57
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.6
60
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.8
50
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.7
48
|
Verified
Not enough data
Visualization
8.9
62
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.8
52
|
Verified
Not enough data
Monitoring
8.5
96
8.6
13
8.9
88
8.6
13
8.9
98
8.6
13
7.3
83
7.5
12
8.4
89
8.1
12
Response
8.8
105
9.2
13
8.9
93
8.1
12
7.9
86
8.2
12
Performance
8.5
100
7.6
13
8.2
86
8.2
12
Functionality
8.4
88
7.6
12
8.0
80
7.6
11
Feature Not Available
7.6
11
8.5
94
8.5
11
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
Generative AI
Feature Not Available
Feature Not Available
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
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
13
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 and Grafana Labs are categorized as Observability Solution Suites, Log Monitoring, Database Monitoring, Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring, IT Alerting, Container Monitoring, and Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Unique Categories
Datadog is categorized as Observability Pipeline, Enterprise Monitoring, Server Monitoring, AIOps Platforms, Network Traffic Analysis (NTA), IoT Device Management Platforms, IoT Analytics Platforms, Website Monitoring, Log Analysis, Incident Response, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), API Marketplace, Network Monitoring, and Cloud Cost Management
Grafana Labs is categorized as AWS Marketplace and Incident Management
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
Datadog
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Grafana Labs
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
20.5%
Computer Software
17.8%
Financial Services
8.1%
Internet
5.1%
Retail
3.2%
Other
45.4%
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
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.
Grafana Labs
Most Helpful Favorable Review
Palazzetti L.
Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
Easy of configuration and plug & play setup for multiple datasource is one of the key point. The ability to create library panel, share dashboard and properly manage different ACL based on users, together with SAML integration are core features.
Most Helpful Critical Review
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.
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...
Palazzetti L.
Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
Easy of configuration and plug & play setup for multiple datasource is one of the key point. The ability to create library panel, share dashboard and properly manage different ACL based on users, together with SAML integration are core features.
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.
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.
Discussions
Does Datadog use AWS?
2 comments
IG
Yes, the backbone of Datadog infrastructure is sitting within AWS.Read more
What is the use of Datadog?
2 comments
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 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
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1 comment
PC
Its help to Monitoring, analysis of our app and also provide graphic visualisation and alert Tigger system.Read more
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