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.
"The most valuable feature is the universality of their functionalities in all Azure services, including, software solutions."
"Technical support is good and helpful...The initial setup is easy."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Log analytics and log queries are the most valuable features of Azure Monitor."
"It's a Microsoft native tool, so it works well with other Microsoft technologies, which is predominantly what our customer end-user base is."
"Azure Monitor gives us the observability to check everything that we have in the cloud."
"One of the most useful aspects of this solution is the out-of-the-box functionality on all areas, especially on Application Insights, zero instrumentation, and artificial intelligence for event correlation."
"I use the solution to monitor the infrastructure and applications."
"We've found it most useful for managing Rstudio Workbench, which has its own logs that would not be picked up via Cloudwatch."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"I find the greatest feature is being able to search across logs from various microservices."
"Datadog is easy to use and easy to deploy. It's a better solution compared to others on the market in terms of being budget friendly for our customers."
"The platform appeals to companies spanning many industries on a global scale."
"The CCM, Workflows, Logs, APM, and RUM are all useful aspects of the solution."
"Datadog is constantly adding new features."
"It is easy to navigate the menu and create tests."
"Azure Monitor's integration with applications could be improved."
"The solution needs better monitoring. It requires better log controls."
"If it is configured incorrectly, you can end up with a huge bill."
"I need connectivity with cost management."
"It might not have all of the capabilities we will need."
"It's really complex to retrieve or query the logs in Azure Monitor."
"The biggest one is probably just the user interface. There could be more advanced logging at the database level. They can also improve their query builder to allow you to search for things better, but I last used it about a year ago. They might have already changed a ton of things in the newer versions."
"I would like more transparency when we use the solution with another environment, like on-premises, or on another cloud environment, like AWS or GCP."
"We have contact with many customers that cover many areas, so we have cases where the infrastructure administration could be improved."
"Lately, chat support has a longer waiting time."
"Datadog isn't as mature as some of the established players like Dynatrace or Splunk. It's a new product, so they are constantly releasing new features, and I don't have much to complain about."
"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."
"Could be a little more user friendly."
"We need more visibility into the error tracking dashboard."
"The FinOps needs improvement."
"The Log Explorer could be better. I don't think it has log manipulation as Splunk does."
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.