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.
"Technical support is helpful."
"The most valuable feature is the universality of their functionalities in all Azure services, including, software solutions."
"The dashboard allows us to easily track various metrics and quickly understand the overall health of our system."
"It has good troubleshooting features."
"We like this searchability and availability of the data."
"The feature that I found most valuable in Azure Monitor is its monitoring abilities. With Azure Monitor, you are able to monitor all of your cloud resources across multiple subscriptions in one dashboard and create solution-specific alerts that can trigger an email to the team responsible for that specific solution."
"The solution's most valuable features are its ability to focus on delivery and maximizing the performance of applications and services."
"It is a robust, stable product."
"I have found the logging and tracing features the most valuable."
"Excellent autocomplete for everything in the UI."
"It has a nice UI."
"We like the distributed tracing and flame graphs for debugging. This has been invaluable for us during periods of high traffic or red alert conditions."
"Flame graphs are pretty useful for understanding how GraphQL resolves our federated queries when it comes to identifying slow points in our requests. In our microservice environment with 170 services."
"It brings in observability, monitoring, and alerting capabilities - all of which we need to operate at scale."
"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 infrastructure monitoring capabilities are really valuable. You can just log on and see everything that is happening within an IT environment."
"We encounter some difficulties in monitoring the operating system on its own."
"I need connectivity with cost management."
"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."
"The solution's monitoring feature has limitations for analyzing multiple metrics."
"have used multiple products like Webex and PRTG. Some features could be added. Azure Monitor should add SMS and APIs. We have very limited access to Azure Monitor. I usually get alerts on my phone when they are integrated with Slack. I am not always available, but my team is. Sometimes, I am traveling and don't have access to my email, but I have Slack and other third-party projects that send me instant messages if a sensor goes down."
"I'd like the solution to do more around vulnerability assessment. It's lacking in the product right now."
"The scalability could be improved as there are some limitations."
"The on-premise version is very difficult to upgrade."
"There is always room for improvement when dealing with cloud-based technologies. Mainly, I would say, it's just increasing our offerings to attract various other types of industries and businesses across more fields."
"Auto instrumentation on tracing has not been very easy to find in the documentation."
"The parallel editing of the dashboards should not cause users to lose the work of another person."
"Once Datadog has gained wide adoption, it can often be overwhelming to both know and understand where to go to find answers to questions."
"I would love to see support for front-end and mobile applications. Right now, it is mostly all back-end stuff. Being able to do some integration with our front-end products would be awesome."
"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."
"The real issue with this product is cost control."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews while Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability 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, Prometheus, Sentry, 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.
See our list of best Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability vendors and best Cloud Monitoring Software vendors.
We monitor all Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.