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ChaosSearch vs Datadog comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 25, 2026

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

ChaosSearch
Ranking in Log Management
49th
Average Rating
6.0
Reviews Sentiment
4.6
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Datadog
Ranking in Log Management
3rd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
208
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (1st), Network Monitoring Software (3rd), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (2nd), Container Monitoring (1st), Cloud Monitoring Software (2nd), AIOps (1st), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (5th), AI Observability (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Log Management category, the mindshare of ChaosSearch is 0.3%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Datadog is 4.5%, down from 6.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Log Management Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Datadog4.5%
ChaosSearch0.3%
Other95.2%
Log Management
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2593014 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Cost-effective logging solution with room for search and interface improvement
Our primary use case is logging for everything within the company. We have a custom LogShipper, and for whatever deployments we have, we add the LogShipper into our containers, apply customer configurations to parse log files, and send desired fields to ChaosSearch. We then review logs on…
Dhroov Patel - PeerSpot reviewer
Site Reliability Engineer at Grainger
Has improved incident response with better root cause visibility and supports flexible on-call scheduling
Datadog needs to introduce more hard limits to cost. If we see a huge log spike, administrators should have more control over what happens to save costs. If a service starts logging extensively, I want the ability to automatically direct that log into the cheapest log bucket. This should be the case with many offerings. If we're seeing too much APM, we need to be aware of it and able to stop it rather than having administrators reach out to specific teams. Datadog has become significantly slower over the last year. They could improve performance at the risk of slowing down feature work. More resources need to go into Fleet Automation because we face many problems with things such as the Ansible role to install Datadog in non-containerized hosts. We mainly want to see performance improvements, less time spent looking at costs, the ability to trust that costs will stay reasonable, and an easier way to manage our agents. It is such a powerful tool with much potential on the horizon, but cost control, performance, and agent management need improvement. The main issues are with the administrative side rather than the actual application.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"ChaosSearch is considered a cheaper alternative to Elastic."
"ChaosSearch is considered a cheaper alternative to Elastic."
"The single pane of glass view with maneuvering between products has helped us to truly understand root causes after incidents."
"The most valuable feature I have found is the elastic container service."
"We've found it most useful for managing Rstudio Workbench, which has its own logs that would not be picked up via Cloudwatch."
"The setup cost was minimal."
"The server monitoring, service monitoring, and user session monitoring are extremely helpful, as they allow us to be alerted ahead of time of issues that users might experience."
"The integration into AWS is key as well as our software is currently bound to AWS."
"Datadog has a lot of features to be able to drill down deep into the swath of logs that our platforms generate."
"We've been able to glean from the monitors what servers are down, and can alert the team in Slack."
 

Cons

"During my time at Klarna, I didn't see any improvements from using ChaosSearch."
"The user interface could be more intuitive and requires improvement."
"Datadog could make their use cases more visible either through their docs or tutorial videos."
"ECS could be improved by including more tutorials for beginners to reduce the barriers to entry."
"​It would be nice to be able to graph metrics by excluding certain tags (like you can do in monitors)."
"Another issue that I have is with the search syntax, it could be simpler and it feels like there are too many ways to do the same things."
"Lately, chat support has a longer waiting time."
"It could probably be a little bit of a better user experience."
"They should continue expanding and integrating with more third-party apps."
"I would love to see more metrics or analytics in IoT devices."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"They prefer monthly subscriptions."
"The price is better than some competing products."
"It has a module-based pricing model."
"The tool is open-source."
"The solution is fairly priced but history and log storage can get costly depending on your needs."
"My advice is to really keep an eye on your overage costs, as they can spiral really fast."
"If you do your homework, you'll find that if you're really concerned with cost, it's good."
"I am not satisfied with its licensing. Its payment is based on the exported data, and there was an explosion of the data for three or four weeks. My customer was not alerted, and there was no way for them to see that there has been an explosion of data. They got a big invoice for one or two months. The pricing model of Datadog is based on the data. The customer was quite surprised about not being alerted about this explosion of data. They should provide some kind of alert when there is an increase in usage."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
No data available
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Healthcare Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business80
Midsize Enterprise46
Large Enterprise99
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ChaosSearch?
Pricing was a significant factor in choosing ChaosSearch, especially as an alternative to more expensive solutions like Elastic.
What needs improvement with ChaosSearch?
The user interface could be more intuitive and requires improvement. The search function often feels wonky, making it difficult to find specific messages. There should be documentation or feature e...
What is your primary use case for ChaosSearch?
Our primary use case is logging for everything within the company. We have a custom LogShipper, and for whatever deployments we have, we add the LogShipper into our containers, apply customer confi...
Any advice about APM solutions?
There are many factors and we know little about your requirements (size of org, technology stack, management systems, the scope of implementation). Our goal was to consolidate APM and infra monitor...
Datadog vs ELK: which one is good in terms of performance, cost and efficiency?
With Datadog, we have near-live visibility across our entire platform. We have seen APM metrics impacted several times lately using the dashboards we have created with Datadog; they are very good c...
Which would you choose - Datadog or Dynatrace?
Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether the Datadog or Dynatrace network monitoring software was the better fit for us. We decided to go with Dynatrace. Dynatrace offers network ...
 

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