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ChaosSearch vs Datadog comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 25, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

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
211
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (1st), Network Monitoring Software (3rd), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (2nd), Container Monitoring (2nd), Cloud Monitoring Software (2nd), AIOps (1st), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (5th), AI Observability (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Log Management category, the mindshare of ChaosSearch is 0.2%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Datadog is 4.7%, 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 (%)
Datadog4.7%
ChaosSearch0.2%
Other95.1%
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."
"Datadog has clear dashboards and good documentation."
"I like that you can build out a dashboard pretty quickly. There are some things that come out of the box that you don't really need to do, which is great because they're default settings."
"The most valuable feature of Datadog is its logs."
"I like how we can customize alerts, and when alerts have become too noisy, we turn their threshold down fairly easily."
"Dashboards are helpful for reviewing occasionally to get a higher-level overview of what's happening."
"Datadog has impacted my organization positively as this is our main observability tool when it comes to monitoring services, traces, and all resources within key services."
"With Datadog, we managed to get everyone on board into a single place and a single tool, providing teams with one spot where they can check everything related to monitoring, and enabling management and leadership to have an overview of all tools working together."
"Datadog has significantly improved our organization’s visibility into system performance and application health, and the real-time dashboards and alerting capabilities have helped our teams detect issues faster, reduce downtime, and improve response times."
 

Cons

"The user interface could be more intuitive and requires improvement."
"During my time at Klarna, I didn't see any improvements from using ChaosSearch."
"The pricing is a bit confusing."
"If there were a more cost-effective manner of deploying the tool, we'd be more likely to adopt it more widely."
"The solution should provide alerts for cloud outages."
"I'm not sure what kind of features are in the roadmap right now, but I encourage the development of features for defining your organization, and allowing the visibility of what kind of metrics you can get. Those features would be really useful for us."
"Other than being restricted by cost, Datadog's scalability has been a little bit of a challenge to do the initial installation of the agent."
"​It would be nice to be able to graph metrics by excluding certain tags (like you can do in monitors)."
"Federated views for Datadog dashboards are critical as large companies utilize multiple instances of the product and cannot link the metrics or correlate the metrics together. This stunts the usage of Datadog."
"The incident management beta looks promising, but it is still missing the ability to automatically create incidents based on certain alerts."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Sometimes it's very hard to project how much it will cost for the monthly subscription for the next month when you add certain features. Having better visibility of the cost would give a better experience."
"It is easy to run up a large bill, so become familiar with the cost of each piece of your bill and use the metrics they supply to estimate and monitor your bill."
"The solution's pricing depends on project volume."
"It has a module-based pricing model."
"It costs the same amount it would if we were hosting it ourselves, so we are incredibly happy with the cost."
"The pricing came up a bit compared to their competitors. It is not that the price has risen, but that the competitors have gone down. They keep adding more features that I would have expected to be baked in at a more nominal price. I have been increasingly dissatisfied with the pricing, but not enough to jump ship."
"​Pricing seems reasonable. It depends on the size of your organization, the size of your infrastructure, and what portion of your overall business costs go toward infrastructure."
"The pricing and licensing through AWS Marketplace has been good. It would be nice if it was cheaper, but their pricing is reasonable for what it is. Sometimes, for their newer features, they charge as if it's fully fleshed out, even though it is a newer feature and it may have less stuff than their other items."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
No data available
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
12%
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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