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.
"It is a move-in powerful feature compared to other market-leading tools."
"The upside to the solution is if you are working in a Microsoft or Azure environment, it makes things easier."
"Azure Monitor is very stable."
"I use the solution to monitor the infrastructure and applications."
"The solution is quite stable."
"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."
"The solution works well overall. It's easy to implement and simple to use."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Datadog has made it much easier to have a central place for people to look for logs and made it much easier to notify them of any elevated error rates or failures."
"With Datadog I can look at the health of the technology stack and services."
"Their interface is probably one of the easiest things to use because it lets non-developers and non-engineers quickly get access to metrics and pull business value out of them. We could put together dashboards and give it to people who are non-technical, then they can see the state of the world."
"The solution allows flexibility and heightened observability for presenting data, creating indicators, and setting service-level objectives."
"The network map is crucial in identifying bottlenecks and determining what needs more attention."
"They have a very good foundation in capturing metrics, logs, and traces. It's a very nice tool for that and it allows you to apply these monitoring tools in almost any technology."
"We integrate our application logs. It is great to be able to tie our metrics and our traces together."
"Most of the features in the way Datadog does monitoring are commendable and that is the reason we choose it. We did some comparisons before picking Datadog. Datadog was recommended based on the features provided."
"The process of implementation needs to be easier."
"This solution could be improved with more out-of-the-box functionalities and artificial intelligence to complete event correlation."
"Azure Monitor is not user-friendly, and the interface is not exciting. Switching between the dashboards is not easy."
"Azure Monitor's integration with applications could be improved."
"The monitoring of Kubernetes clusters needs improvement to be on par with competitors."
"We encounter some difficulties in monitoring the operating system on its own."
"Automation related to gathering metrics from more applications could be improved."
"We cannot use AI services with the solution."
"Lately, chat support has a longer waiting time."
"The pricing should be less of a surprise."
"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."
"They need to implement template variables into the message response body."
"Stability of the product has been a concern for us outside of the primary monitoring agents."
"The incident management beta looks promising, but it is still missing the ability to automatically create incidents based on certain alerts."
"Lacks some flexibility in the customization."
"It could use some additional features when working with metrics like Grafana or like New Relic has. Datadog does not use library technologies like Dynatrace does. Datadog has machine learning too, but it does not have this option in all layers of monitoring like infrastructure service process in applications."
Azure Monitor is ranked 5th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 44 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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