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 tools for logs and metrics are pretty good and easy to use."
"Recently, they have improved their integration with other resources, so we get even more robust data."
"Azure Monitor's best features are its graphs and charts, the different visibility options, and reporting."
"Azure Monitor is very stable."
"Provides an overview and high-level information."
"The most valuable feature is the universality of their functionalities in all Azure services, including, software solutions."
"It is a move-in powerful feature compared to other market-leading tools."
"It's a Microsoft native tool, so it works well with other Microsoft technologies, which is predominantly what our customer end-user base is."
"The installation step is pretty straightforward."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the APM."
"The infrastructure monitoring capabilities are really valuable. You can just log on and see everything that is happening within an IT environment."
"I have found the logging and tracing features the most valuable."
"The seamless integration between Datadog and hundreds of apps makes onboarding new products and teams a breeze."
"We integrate our application logs. It is great to be able to tie our metrics and our traces together."
"Datadog's seamless integration with Slack and PagerDuty helped us to receive alerts right to the most common notification methods we use (our mobile devices and Slack)."
"The network map is crucial in identifying bottlenecks and determining what needs more attention."
"Azure Monitor could improve network performance monitoring and make it more advanced."
"This solution has fewer features than some of its competitors, so adding more features to it would make it better."
"Although it's not always the case, the price can sometimes get expensive. This depends on a number of factors, such as how many services you are trying to integrate with Azure Monitor and how much storage they're consuming each month (for example, how large are the log files?)."
"They need to work with other cloud providers - not just Azure."
"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."
"In my opinion, they should improve the overall user experience, especially when it comes to indexing and searching collective logs."
"The solution should have cross-connection or cross-communication between tech partners."
"The solution needs better monitoring. It requires better log controls."
"Datadog could always lower the price!"
"The correlation between the logs and the metrics needs improvement as most cases, we might use another logging tool (that is cheaper in cost) which we then have to link together."
"Delta traces on the Golang profiler are extremely expensive concerning memory utilization."
"The current way accounts are billed could be vastly improved - especially when involving multiple organizations across multiple accounts in combination with reserved commitments."
"This service could be less costly."
"Sometimes, it takes a long time to load the dashboard if we have many charts."
"When it comes to storing the logs with Datadog, I'm not sure why it costs so much to store gigabytes or terabytes of information when it's a fraction of the cost to do so myself."
"They need to implement template variables into the message response body."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Management (APM) with 22 reviews while Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Management (APM) with 108 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.6, while Datadog is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure Monitor writes "Helps us test the performance and efficiency of cloud applications; good log analysis". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Datadog writes "Easy to set up and good UI but needs better customization capabilities". Azure Monitor is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, Dynatrace, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Prometheus, whereas Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk Enterprise Security, Amazon CloudWatch and Sentry. See our Azure Monitor vs. Datadog report.
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