Compare Datadog and Netdata 
At a Glance
Market Segments
Mid-Market (48.5% of reviews)
Mid-Market (51.6% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
$0 Per host, per month
Free
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 plansNetdata
Star Rating
(34)4.6 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (51.6% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
Free
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AI Generated Summary
AI-generated. Powered by real user reviews.
- Users report that Datadog excels in its alerting capabilities, with a score of 9.2, while Netdata's alerting functionality is slightly lower at 8.8. Reviewers mention that Datadog's multi-channel alerting feature is particularly effective for real-time notifications.
- Reviewers mention that Netdata shines in ease of setup, scoring 9.5 compared to Datadog's 8.4. Users on G2 appreciate how quickly they can get Netdata up and running, making it a favorable choice for teams needing rapid deployment.
- G2 users highlight Datadog's superior logging functionality, scoring 9.3, which is higher than Netdata's 8.5. Users say that the detailed logging features in Datadog help in comprehensive troubleshooting and monitoring.
- Users report that Netdata offers better performance monitoring with a score of 9.6, while Datadog scores 9.2. Reviewers mention that Netdata's real-time analytics provide immediate insights into system performance, which is crucial for proactive management.
- Reviewers mention that Datadog's quality of support is rated at 8.3, which is comparable to Netdata's 8.5. However, users on G2 note that Datadog's support team is particularly responsive and knowledgeable, enhancing the overall user experience.
- Users say that Datadog's multi-cloud management capabilities are rated at 6.7, which is significantly lower than Netdata's 9.3. Reviewers mention that Netdata's robust multi-cloud support makes it a better option for organizations operating in diverse cloud environments.
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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
Netdata
Netdata Community
Free
Your data are always stored on-prem, you access them from anywhere.
- Max 5 Active Connected Nodes
- Max 1 Active Custom Dashboards (per Room)
- Securely access your dashboards from anywhere in the world
Free Trial
Datadog
Free Trial is available
Netdata
Free Trial is available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
8.7
465
9.3
29
Ease of Use
8.2
469
8.9
29
Ease of Setup
8.4
244
9.5
20
Ease of Admin
8.3
212
9.4
19
Quality of Support
8.3
413
8.5
24
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
8.5
199
9.8
14
Product Direction (% positive)
8.9
450
9.2
29
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
9.6
12
9.2
51
8.8
11
8.1
37
8.7
10
8.4
39
9.3
10
Management
8.6
43
9.3
10
9.0
44
9.2
11
8.7
41
8.9
9
Monitoring
8.9
108
8.8
7
8.6
104
9.5
7
8.8
99
9.5
7
8.7
118
9.8
7
Administration
8.5
104
8.8
7
8.5
84
9.3
7
8.2
83
8.6
7
Analysis
8.5
102
8.8
8
8.8
106
9.8
8
Feature Not Available
9.3
7
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
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
Visibility
8.8
67
9.4
24
8.6
61
8.5
24
8.1
59
8.2
23
Monitoring and Management
8.5
60
9.0
24
7.5
55
7.5
21
8.3
57
9.5
22
9.0
60
9.8
24
8.8
56
9.7
11
8.2
61
9.5
11
Cloud environment support
8.0
53
9.3
9
7.9
50
9.1
9
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
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
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
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
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 Netdata are categorized as Observability Solution Suites, Server Monitoring, Log Monitoring, Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring, IT Alerting, Container Monitoring, and Network Monitoring
Unique Categories
Datadog is categorized as Observability Pipeline, Enterprise Monitoring, AIOps Platforms, Network Traffic Analysis (NTA), Database Monitoring, IoT Device Management Platforms, IoT Analytics Platforms, Website Monitoring, Log Analysis, Incident Response, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), API Marketplace, Application Performance Monitoring (APM), and Cloud Cost Management
Netdata has no unique categories
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
Datadog
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Netdata
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%
Information Technology and Services
41.9%
Computer Software
9.7%
Computer Networking
6.5%
Computer Games
6.5%
Computer & Network Security
6.5%
Other
29.0%
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.
Netdata
Most Helpful Favorable Review
Meghna S.
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Netdata offers enhanced visualization of K8 resource utilization clusters that are deployed in our hybrid cloud infrastructure. It provides accurate metric aggregates from various nodes/pods/containers which depend on the grouping that we choose. All...
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...
Meghna S.
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Netdata offers enhanced visualization of K8 resource utilization clusters that are deployed in our hybrid cloud infrastructure. It provides accurate metric aggregates from various nodes/pods/containers which depend on the grouping that we choose. All...
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.
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
Netdata has no discussions with answers
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