We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor and Datadog based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Datadog finishes ahead of Azure Monitor. Users feel Datadog gives the best visibility, better integration, and helpful, timely support. The logs and error reporting are extremely useful to conduct analysis and root cause analysis. The setup, ease of use, and flexibility with dashboard creation and reporting are just some of the things that our users like best about Datadog.
"Provides an overview and high-level information."
"The most valuable features of Azure Monitor are the login analytics workspace and we can write any kind of custom queries in order to receive the data that is inserted into the login analytics workspace, diagnostic settings, et cetera."
"Log analytics and log queries are the most valuable features of Azure Monitor."
"The tools for logs and metrics are pretty good and easy to use."
"The solution is quite stable."
"It is a robust, stable product."
"Data exporting is easy, and this tool works seamlessly with other solutions. It's a stable and low-priced solution."
"A product that is well-integrated for monitoring Microsoft Azure."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the APM."
"Datadog has proven to be easy to set up and legible for both development and operational teams."
"Datadog has helped us a ton by allowing us to set up a multitude of easily configurable alarms across our tech stack and infrastructure."
"This spectrum of solutions has allowed us to track down bugs faster and more rapidly, which allows us to limit revenue lost during downtime."
"The solution is useful for monitoring logs."
"The observability pipelines are the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"It has enhanced the performance of my team."
"Even if we don't end up using Datadog, it revealed problems and optimizations to us that weren't obvious before."
"The solution needs better monitoring. It requires better log controls."
"We encounter some difficulties in monitoring the operating system on its own."
"It might not have all of the capabilities we will need."
"The monitoring of Kubernetes clusters needs improvement to be on par with competitors."
"Lacks information including details related to where problems lie."
"In my opinion, they should improve the overall user experience, especially when it comes to indexing and searching collective logs."
"Currently, it seems it's complicated to get the correct information in terms of what to do and how things work."
"Setting up this solution is complex. It's also missing the functionality of assigning alerts."
"The way data is represented can be limiting. When I first tried it out a long time ago, you could graph a metric and another metric, and they'd overlay, but you couldn't take the ratio between the two."
"Datadog could always lower the price!"
"We have recently had a number of issues with stability and delays on logging, monitoring, metric evaluation, and alerts."
"Sometimes, it takes a long time to load the dashboard if we have many charts."
"It can have a more modernized pricing mechanism. We're actually working with them to figure out how to become more modular and have a better and more modernized pricing mechanism. The issue with Datadog is that you have to buy the whole suite of different products, and you kind of get stuck in the old utilization of 40% of their suite. Most organizations today break down between application development, networking, and security. Therefore, there should be a way to break down different modules into just app dev, infosec, networking, etc. Customers have various needs across their business lines, and sometimes, they're just not willing to have tools that they're not using 100%. AppDynamics is probably a little bit better in terms of being modular."
"At the beginning, when we started throwing logs at it, there was a bit of hiccup. However, this was during their beta period, so hiccups were expected."
"I'm still exploring the trial version, and it is fine. One thing that I haven't been able to figure out is how to retrieve a report. This is something that could be improved. I probably need to navigate to a place to access the reports."
"I would like the tooling to have better integration in Slack, specifically sending out reminders to the relevant people to take breaks, do a retrospective, and specify with emojis which messages to log."
Azure Monitor is ranked 5th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 44 reviews while Datadog is ranked 1st in Cloud Monitoring Software with 137 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while Datadog is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure Monitor writes "A powerful Kusto query language but the alerting mechanism needs improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". Azure Monitor is most compared with Dynatrace, Sentry, Prometheus, Grafana and New Relic, whereas Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, AWS X-Ray, Elastic Observability and AppDynamics. See our Azure Monitor vs. Datadog report.
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