We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudWatch and Datadog based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Datadog ultimately won out in this comparison. According to reviews, Datadog appears to be a more comprehensive and high performing solution. Amazon CloudWatch does come out on top in the setup and pricing categories, however.
"Amazon CloudWatch's best feature stems from its ability to monitor app performance."
"The most valuable features of Amazon CloudWatch are metrics, dashboards, alarms, logs, events, logs insight, and application insights."
"Amazon CloudWatch is a cheap and easy-to-use solution."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is reliability."
"The solution gives us very good real-time data."
"It is a robust analytical tool and it goes beyond mere functionality and extends into the realm of providing comprehensive insights."
"We have found the pricing to be reasonable."
"What I found most valuable in Amazon CloudWatch is that it gives you detailed information, which I found helpful because it can even provide you with data for the past one minute, which is quite granular. That was what helped me most in terms of finding the root causes. Task automation is another valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch."
"Profiling has been made easier."
"The seamless integration between Datadog and hundreds of apps makes onboarding new products and teams a breeze."
"Its integration is most valuable because you can integrate it with various service providers such as AWS, .Net, etc."
"Datadog agents act as an integration to different services, providing easy access and management."
"We have way more observability than what we had before - on the application and the overall system."
"Going from viewing a metric to creating a monitor alerting on a metric is very easy."
"The solution has helped out organization gain improved visibility."
"It has enhanced the performance of my team."
"We'd like the interface to be as easy as Datadog."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing, because they have a premium version, but it's not really a premium version. It's just an enhanced monitoring version, and it can be a bit expensive depending on your usage."
"Some of our customers want to use Kubernetes to monitor their CICD flow but Amazon CloudWatch does not support it. We need to use another solution, such as Datadog or Dynatrace has the needed capability."
"What would make Amazon CloudWatch better is if it includes more on-site checks, particularly status checks on the CPU, network input/output, etc. It would also be helpful if there's built-in swap space, disk, and memory monitoring in Amazon CloudWatch because, at the moment, my team has to configure it manually through a shell script."
"The product’s documentation must be improved."
"I would like to monitor inbound and outbound transfer. I would also like to control the traffic for load balancing."
"The solution's pricing is a bit higher."
"The dashboard of Amazon CloudWatch is not very customizable right now."
"More pre-configured "Monitor Alerts" would be helpful."
"Auto instrumentation on tracing has not been very easy to find in the documentation."
"Datadog is expensive."
"Sometimes it’s difficult to customize certain queries to find specific things, specifically with the logging solution."
"They should continue expanding and integrating with more third-party apps."
"It would be great if usage metrics were automatically created and we could create custom metrics, instead we ended up building some of our own stuff to track and alert on our own usage."
"We need more visibility into the error tracking dashboard."
"When I started using it years ago, it had stability problems. I remember, specifically, we ran everything in Docker containers. There were some problems getting it into a Docker container with very specific memory limits."
Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 9th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 40 reviews while Datadog is ranked 1st in Cloud Monitoring Software with 137 reviews. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while Datadog is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudWatch writes "Instantaneous response when monitoring logs and KPIs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Zabbix, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), Dynatrace, SolarWinds NPM and Nagios XI, whereas Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Coralogix. See our Amazon CloudWatch vs. Datadog report.
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