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Datadog
Datadog
(541)
4.3 out of 5
Datadog
By Datadog
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Honeycomb
Honeycomb
(15)
4.7 out of 5
Honeycomb
By Honeycomb.io
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At a Glance
Datadog
Datadog
Star Rating
(541)4.3 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (48.5% of reviews)
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Honeycomb
Honeycomb
Star Rating
(15)4.7 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (53.3% of reviews)
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Entry-Level Pricing
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  • Users report that Datadog excels in its alerting capabilities, with a score of 9.2, making it a preferred choice for teams needing robust multi-channel alerting. In contrast, Honeycomb's alerting functionality, while still strong at 9.1, is noted to be less comprehensive in terms of multi-channel options.
  • Reviewers mention that Honeycomb shines in its quality of support, achieving a score of 9.4, which is significantly higher than Datadog's 8.3. Users appreciate the responsiveness and helpfulness of Honeycomb's support team, making it a better option for those who prioritize customer service.
  • G2 users highlight Datadog's superior performance monitoring features, scoring 9.2, particularly praising its real-time monitoring capabilities. Users on G2 note that this allows for immediate insights into system performance, which is crucial for maintaining uptime.
  • Users say that Honeycomb's data visualization tools are particularly effective, with a score of 9.3, allowing for intuitive dashboards that help teams quickly understand complex data. Datadog, while also strong in this area with a score of 8.8, does not offer the same level of user-friendly visualizations.
  • Reviewers mention that Datadog's automation features, scoring 8.0, provide significant advantages in streamlining operations, especially with its resolution automation capabilities. Honeycomb, with a slightly lower score of 7.6, is perceived as less effective in this area, which may impact teams looking for efficiency.
  • Users report that Honeycomb's anomaly detection features, scoring 7.7, are less robust compared to Datadog's offerings, which are rated higher. This difference is critical for teams that rely on identifying unusual patterns in their data to preemptively address issues.
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Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
Datadog
Free
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Per host, per month
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Honeycomb
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Free Trial
Datadog
Free Trial is available
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No trial information available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
8.7
465
8.9
11
Ease of Use
8.2
469
8.5
14
Ease of Setup
8.4
244
8.3
12
Ease of Admin
8.3
212
Not enough data
Quality of Support
8.3
413
9.5
11
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
8.5
199
Not enough data
Product Direction (% positive)
8.9
450
10.0
10
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
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
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
Not enough data
Monitoring
8.9
108
Not enough data
8.6
104
Not enough data
8.8
99
Not enough data
8.7
118
Not enough data
Administration
8.5
104
Not enough data
8.5
84
Not enough data
8.2
83
Not enough data
Analysis
8.5
102
Not enough data
8.8
106
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
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
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
Not enough data
Visibility
8.8
76
Not enough data
9.0
75
Not enough data
8.8
69
Not enough data
Monitoring and Management
8.2
71
Not enough data
8.6
73
Not enough data
8.9
77
Not enough data
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
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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
Not enough data
Monitoring
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
Not enough data
Response
8.8
102
Not enough data
8.8
90
Not enough data
7.9
83
Not enough data
Performance
8.4
97
Not enough data
8.2
83
Not enough data
Functionality
8.4
85
Not enough data
8.0
77
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
8.5
91
Not enough data
Container MonitoringHide 16 FeaturesShow 16 Features
8.6
539
Not enough data
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
IT AlertingHide 1 FeatureShow 1 Feature
Not enough data
Not enough data
Generative AI
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
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
Honeycomb
Honeycomb
Unique Categories
Datadog
Honeycomb
Honeycomb is categorized as AWS Marketplace
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%
Honeycomb
Honeycomb
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
13.3%
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
53.3%
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
33.3%
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%
Honeycomb
Honeycomb
Information Technology and Services
20.0%
Financial Services
20.0%
Computer Software
13.3%
Research
6.7%
Marketing and Advertising
6.7%
Other
33.3%
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.

Honeycomb
Honeycomb
Most Helpful Favorable Review
Josh S.
JS
Josh S.
Verified User in Banking

I like that Honeycomb is an event-driven observability platform for debugging systems, application code, and databases. Honeycomb ingests structured data and performs read-time query aggregation to support speedy analytics over ultra-rich datasets without...

Most Helpful Critical Review
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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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Honeycomb
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