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.
"Among the valuable features of this solution, Application Insights stands out as one of the most significant. It provides insights into application performance and helps identify issues and bottlenecks."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It is a move-in powerful feature compared to other market-leading tools."
"Provides an overview and high-level information."
"The most valuable feature is that it ensures our servers are up."
"Azure Monitor gives us the observability to check everything that we have in the cloud."
"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."
"Azure Monitor is really just a source for Dynatrace. It's just collecting data and monitoring the environment and the infrastructure. It is fairly good at that."
"The most valuable feature I have found is the elastic container service."
"The solution has helped our organization with custom events to track specific cases."
"Datadog provides tracing and logging, whereas Dynatrace focuses on tracing, and Splunk is more of a logging tool. Datadog's advantage is that we don't need two tools."
"We've found it most useful for managing Rstudio Workbench, which has its own logs that would not be picked up via Cloudwatch."
"Datadog has a lot of features to be able to drill down deep into the swath of logs that our platforms generate."
"Datadog helps us detect issues early on and helps in troubleshooting."
"The installation step is pretty straightforward."
"We enjoy the multistep API tests."
"They can simplify the overall complexity since you have multiple data sources in the cloud for monitoring. It's quite simple, but there are so many portals. It takes time to work with it. If they could simplify the user configuration, that would be good."
"I need connectivity with cost management."
"Integration with third-party tools from other vendors than Azure is more time-consuming"
"The default interface should be improved."
"The query builder could be better. In comparison to other monitoring tools, in order to use Azure Monitor, your engineers need to have KQL experience. If they don't, it's not intuitive as a system."
"As a younger product it still has room for feature improvement and enhancement."
"The troubleshooting logs need improvement. There should be some improvement there. I have a hard time finding the right logs at the right times whenever there is an issue occurring."
"Azure Monitor could improve the visualization aspect and integrate better with other third-party services."
"The product needs to have more enterprise approach to configuration."
"It is very difficult to make the solutions fit perfectly for large organizations, especially in terms of high cardinality objects and multi-tenancy, where the data needs to be rolled up to a summarized level while maintaining its individual data granularity and identifiers."
"The pricing model could be simplified as it feels a bit outdated, especially when you look at the billing model of compute instances vs the containers instances."
"Could be a little more user friendly."
"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."
"I often have issues with the UI in my browser."
"Once agents are connected to the Datadog portal, we should be able to upgrade them quickly."
"It can be overwhelming for new people as it has a lot of features."
Azure Monitor is ranked 5th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 45 reviews while Datadog is ranked 1st in Cloud Monitoring Software 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, Sentry, Prometheus, 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.
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