Compare Datadog and groundcover 
At a Glance
Market Segments
Mid-Market (48.5% of reviews)
Mid-Market (50.0% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
$0 Per host, per month
Free 3 Users
Datadog
Star Rating
(541)4.3 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (48.5% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
$0 Per host, per month
Free Trial is available
Browse all 3 pricing plansgroundcover
Star Rating
(26)4.8 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (50.0% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
Free 3 Users
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AI Generated Summary
AI-generated. Powered by real user reviews.
- Users report that Datadog excels in its Multi-Cloud Management capabilities with a score of 8.5, allowing seamless integration across various cloud platforms, while Groundcover, with a score of 8.8, offers a more user-friendly interface for managing multiple cloud environments.
- Reviewers mention that Groundcover shines in Quality of Support, scoring 9.4, which is significantly higher than Datadog's 8.3. Users appreciate Groundcover's responsive customer service and detailed documentation.
- G2 users highlight Datadog's superior Alerting functionality, scoring 9.2, which includes advanced features like Multi-Channel Alerting and customizable alerts, while Groundcover's alerting features, though effective, score slightly lower at 9.1.
- Reviewers say that Groundcover's Ease of Setup is a standout feature, scoring 9.2, making it easier for teams to get started quickly compared to Datadog's score of 8.4, which some users find requires more initial configuration.
- Users on G2 report that Datadog's Real-Time Monitoring capabilities are robust, with a score of 8.9, providing detailed insights into system performance, while Groundcover's score of 9.2 indicates a more intuitive dashboard for real-time analytics.
- Reviewers mention that Groundcover's Data Visualization features are highly rated at 9.4, offering clear and customizable dashboards, whereas Datadog's score of 8.8, while still strong, does not provide the same level of user-friendly visual options.
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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
groundcover
Free Plan
Free
3 Users
- One cluster
- Up to 3 users
- Support in Slack community
Free Trial
Datadog
Free Trial is available
groundcover
Free Trial is available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
8.7
465
9.1
24
Ease of Use
8.2
469
8.8
26
Ease of Setup
8.4
244
9.2
24
Ease of Admin
8.3
212
8.8
10
Quality of Support
8.3
413
9.4
18
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
8.5
199
9.8
11
Product Direction (% positive)
8.9
450
10.0
25
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
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
Functionality
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
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
Monitoring
8.9
108
9.7
12
8.6
104
9.4
12
8.8
99
9.0
12
8.7
118
9.3
12
Administration
8.5
104
9.3
12
8.5
84
8.8
11
8.2
83
7.3
10
Analysis
8.5
102
8.9
11
8.8
106
9.2
12
Feature Not Available
8.8
11
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
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
76
9.4
14
9.0
75
8.8
14
8.8
69
8.9
14
Monitoring and Management
8.2
71
8.6
13
8.6
73
8.2
13
8.9
77
9.2
13
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
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
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
Monitoring
8.5
93
8.8
10
8.9
85
9.3
10
8.9
95
9.3
10
7.3
80
6.9
9
8.4
86
9.3
9
Response
8.8
102
9.4
9
8.8
90
8.5
9
7.9
83
8.7
9
Performance
8.4
97
9.2
8
8.2
83
9.6
8
Functionality
8.4
85
8.1
8
8.0
77
7.9
8
Feature Not Available
7.4
9
8.5
91
8.5
10
Alerts management
8.7
36
Not enough data
8.0
38
Not enough data
8.6
40
Not enough data
Monitoring
8.7
31
Not enough data
9.2
34
Not enough data
8.7
36
Not enough data
9.2
31
Not enough data
Automation
8.5
31
Not enough data
8.6
29
Not enough data
Analysis
8.2
34
Not enough data
8.4
37
Not enough data
9.3
36
Not enough data
8.5
35
Not enough data
Issue Resolution
8.4
30
Not enough data
7.7
33
Not enough data
8.6
28
Not enough data
Functionality
Not enough data
8.9
6
Not enough data
9.0
5
Not enough data
8.0
5
Not enough data
8.3
6
Management
Not enough data
9.2
6
Not enough data
7.8
6
Not enough data
8.9
6
Not enough data
8.3
6
Not enough data
9.7
5
Generative AI
Not enough data
5.3
6
Generative AI
Feature Not Available
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
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 and groundcover are categorized as Observability Solution Suites, Log Monitoring, Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring, and Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Unique Categories
Datadog is categorized as Observability Pipeline, Enterprise Monitoring, Server 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, Network Monitoring, and Cloud Cost Management
groundcover is categorized as Data Observability and AWS Marketplace
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
Datadog
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
groundcover
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
20.2%
Computer Software
17.9%
Financial Services
8.1%
Internet
5.1%
Retail
3.2%
Other
45.5%
Computer Software
34.6%
Information Technology and Services
15.4%
Financial Services
11.5%
Computer & Network Security
11.5%
Consulting
3.8%
Other
23.1%
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.
groundcover
Most Helpful Favorable Review
Verified User in Computer Games
It's super fast, comprated to many other vendors, it loads data much faster, search & query much faster.
Most Helpful Critical 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...
Verified User in Computer Games
It's super fast, comprated to many other vendors, it loads data much faster, search & query much faster.
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.
Alternatives
Discussions
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
groundcover has no discussions with answers
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