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.
"Scheduling is a valuable feature."
"It is a robust analytical tool and it goes beyond mere functionality and extends into the realm of providing comprehensive insights."
"The detection is the most valuable feature."
"Setting up this product was easy. I found data analytics as its most valuable feature."
"We can create events and alerts. We use the information to dive down into the infrastructure performance."
"I have found the memory metrics and the CPU metrics valuable."
"You can enable alarms and metrics, and it has robust integration with AWS services. You can also trigger events. For example, if the CPU utilization is above 80%, it can launch a new instance for you."
"CloudWatch immediately hooks up and connects to the KPIs and all the metrics."
"If we have a large load for users using our basic Datadog, it will immediately fire off an alert notifying us either something's wrong or not."
"The integration and configuration are incredibly simple. The SaaS offering is remarkably easy to set up, especially if you're coming from a Graphite environment or anything that uses a StatsD."
"The many dozens of integrations that the solution brings out of the box are excellent."
"I like the amount of tooling and the number of solutions they sold with their monitoring. Datadog was highly intuitive to use."
"Datadog dashboards are pretty great."
"The fact that everything is under a single pane of glass is really valuable, as developers don't have to spend their time copying correlation IDs across tools to find what they need."
"Profiling has been made easier."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the APM."
"The solution's auto-scaling could be improved."
"I do not know whether or not CloudWatch can be integrated with on-prem services."
"Amazon CloudWatch needs improvement. The main thing is we have noticed missing logs."
"CloudWatch doesn’t monitor disk throughput by default."
"The solution's integration could be easier for laypersons."
"For monitoring applications or for APM, CloudWatch has some limitations. You cannot monitor application performance from CloudWatch, and you have to go for a third-party tool."
"The solution's pricing is a bit higher."
"The solution should provide human-readable metrics."
"There are things about it that we would like to be fixed, such as it is taking averages of average. This results in data that we don't expect."
"We primarily use the log management functionality, and the only feedback I have there is better fuzzy text searching in logs (the kind that Kibana has)."
"Ingesting data from various sources to monitor the log metrics of the system can always improve so that, if something goes wrong, the right teams are alerted."
"Its pricing model can be improved. Its settings should be improved for a better understanding of billing. They should also provide some alerts when there is an increase in the usage. For example, if there is 20% more increase from one week to another, the customer should get an alert."
"While the tool is robust with many different capabilities, users would greatly benefit from more examples in the documentation."
"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."
"The ability to find what you are looking for when starting out could be improved."
"I would like testing for data in the future."
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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