Compare Datadog and Raygun 
At a Glance
Market Segments
Mid-Market (48.5% of reviews)
Small-Business (53.7% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
$0 Per host, per month
Starting at $40.00
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
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Star Rating
(122)4.3 out of 5
Market Segments
Small-Business (53.7% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
Starting at $40.00
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AI Generated Summary
AI-generated. Powered by real user reviews.
- Users report that Datadog excels in multi-cloud management with a score of 6.7, while Raygun shines in real-time monitoring with a score of 9.3, making it a better choice for those needing immediate insights into their cloud infrastructure.
- Reviewers mention that Datadog's alerting functionality is rated at 9.2, which is higher than Raygun's 9.1, indicating that Datadog may provide more robust alerting features for critical incidents.
- Users on G2 highlight that Raygun's dynamic transaction mapping feature scores an impressive 9.2, showcasing its strength in tracking user interactions, while Datadog's equivalent feature is rated lower, suggesting Raygun may offer a more detailed user experience analysis.
- Reviewers say that Datadog's logging capabilities are rated at 9.3, which is superior to Raygun's 8.3, indicating that users may find Datadog more effective for comprehensive log management and troubleshooting.
- G2 users report that Raygun's performance monitoring is rated at 9.2, which is on par with Datadog's 9.2, but users mention that Raygun provides more actionable insights for performance improvements.
- Users say that Datadog's data visualization features score 8.9, while Raygun's are slightly lower at 8.8, suggesting that Datadog may offer a more visually appealing and user-friendly interface for data representation.
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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
Raygun
Crash Reporting
Starting at $40.00
Detect, diagnose and resolve errors affecting your customers.
- Basic subscription starts with 100,000 reserved errors
- Team subscription starts with 200,000 reserved errors
- Business subscription starts with 100,000,000 reserved errors
Free Trial
Datadog
Free Trial is available
Raygun
Free Trial is available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
8.7
465
8.9
88
Ease of Use
8.2
469
8.8
88
Ease of Setup
8.4
244
9.1
32
Ease of Admin
8.3
212
8.7
34
Quality of Support
8.3
413
8.5
66
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
8.5
199
8.6
30
Product Direction (% positive)
8.9
450
8.5
80
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
Experience
Not enough data
9.3
7
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
8.1
6
Management
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Performance
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
9.3
5
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
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
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
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
Bug Reporting
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Bug Monitoring
Not enough data
8.6
26
Not enough data
8.4
37
Not enough data
8.5
31
Crash Monitoring
Not enough data
8.5
11
Not enough data
8.5
13
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Crash Data
Not enough data
7.8
12
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
8.2
12
Metrics
Not enough data
8.1
6
Not enough data
8.7
5
Not enough data
8.7
5
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
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
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
8.6
7
8.9
85
8.8
7
8.9
95
8.3
8
7.3
80
Feature Not Available
8.4
86
9.4
8
Response
8.8
102
8.8
8
8.8
90
9.4
8
7.9
83
Feature Not Available
Performance
8.4
97
8.8
11
8.2
83
9.0
7
Functionality
8.4
85
Feature Not Available
8.0
77
9.2
6
Feature Not Available
8.7
5
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
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
Metrics
Not enough data
8.1
6
Not enough data
8.7
5
Not enough data
8.7
5
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
Datadog and Raygun are categorized as Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Unique Categories
Datadog is categorized as Observability Pipeline, Observability Solution Suites, Enterprise Monitoring, Server Monitoring, Log Monitoring, AIOps Platforms, Network Traffic Analysis (NTA), Database Monitoring, IoT Device Management Platforms, IoT Analytics Platforms, Website Monitoring, Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring, IT Alerting, Container Monitoring, Log Analysis, Incident Response, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), API Marketplace, Network Monitoring, and Cloud Cost Management
Raygun is categorized as Mobile Crash Reporting, Bug Tracking, and Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
Datadog
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Raygun
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
28.1%
Information Technology and Services
16.5%
Financial Services
6.6%
Internet
5.8%
Insurance
5.8%
Other
37.2%
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.
Raygun
Most Helpful Favorable Review
Verified User in Education Management
The crash reporting feature works great! It keeps me and my team members aware of underlying errors that hinder the performance of our live applications.
Most Helpful Critical Review
Verified User in Oil & Energy
I can't really think of anything. I am probably not using all its capabilities so don't know if it has limitations in other area's. I know that we are moving away from the use of this tool and using NewRelic for our alerting and monitoring but not sure what...
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 Education Management
The crash reporting feature works great! It keeps me and my team members aware of underlying errors that hinder the performance of our live applications.
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.
Verified User in Oil & Energy
I can't really think of anything. I am probably not using all its capabilities so don't know if it has limitations in other area's. I know that we are moving away from the use of this tool and using NewRelic for our alerting and monitoring but not sure what...
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
Is there any way to further customize grouping?
1 comment
AV
Hi there Hugo,
Thanks for reaching out! We do have options for further customizing error groups. You can set up your own custom error group hasher by...Read more
Raygun has no more discussions with answers
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