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Executive Summary
Updated on May 10, 2022

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.

  • Ease of Deployment: Azure Monitor users feel that the setup is not easy, but not too complex either. It is somewhere in the middle. It can take some time to get the entire process completed properly. Datadog users tell us the installation and deployment are very straightforward and easy to complete.
  • Features: Azure Monitor makes it very easy for users to monitor applications and infrastructure for any potential problems. This solution offers a survey of surveillance in real time and a very helpful dashboard. Azure Monitor, which is integrated with Azure DevOps, has good load gathering and very good analytics. Users get useful alerts with Azure Monitor that make recommendations about the security and the entire platform. Many users feel there should be more specific detail about where problems lie. Azure Monitor is lacking somewhat in vulnerability assessment; this aspect could be better. Azure Monitor automation also needs some improvement. Automation should be better, from gathering metrics from more applications to getting processes quickly started when something goes down, the overall process leaves room for improvement.

    Datadog users really like the near-live visibility across the entire platform. Users can build very useful dashboards right out of the box using this solution. Developers are able to easily see how code is running in production, and custom built-in metrics give a wealth of knowledge and historical data that help keep systems running smoothly on a consistent basis. Many users feel there should be a more tiered approach to give users the opportunity to buy a more tailored product specific to their organizational needs. Datadog could also be more user-friendly. Users would like to see deeper application-level insight and better incident management.

  • Pricing: Users of both of these solutions feel that the pricing could be better.
  • Service and Support: Azure offers a tiered support structure; users with the higher tiers are very satisfied. Datadog users tell us that for general problems, technical support is great. However, if there is a specialized incident, support is often not satisfactory.

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.

To learn more, read our detailed Azure Monitor vs. Datadog Report (Updated: March 2023).
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Pros
"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."

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"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."

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Cons
"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."

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"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Azure Monitor is a low-priced solution, which is why it would work best on small-scale projects."
  • "The price of the solution is reasonable."
  • "Azure Monitor is a competitively priced solution."
  • "Azure Monitor is one of the more cost effective solutions on the market."
  • "The cost of Azure Monitor application performance should be less expensive."
  • "The licensing is a monthly fee."
  • "I would rate Azure Monitor a two out of five for affordability."
  • "The solution is very costly because you have to pay for various things such as adding to logs and internet alerts."
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  • "It has a module-based pricing model."
  • "I am not satisfied with its licensing. Its payment is based on the exported data, and there was an explosion of the data for three or four weeks. My customer was not alerted, and there was no way for them to see that there has been an explosion of data. They got a big invoice for one or two months. The pricing model of Datadog is based on the data. The customer was quite surprised about not being alerted about this explosion of data. They should provide some kind of alert when there is an increase in usage."
  • "Datadog does not provide any free plans to use the solution. When I start with a proof of concept it would be sensible to have a free plan to test the tool and check whether it fits the requirements of the project. Before the production stage, it is always good to have a free plan with some limited features, number of requests, or logs."
  • "They prefer monthly subscriptions."
  • "Our licensing fees are paid on a monthly basis."
  • "Sometimes it's very hard to project how much it will cost for the monthly subscription for the next month when you add certain features. Having better visibility of the cost would give a better experience."
  • "While it is an expensive product, I would rate the pricing level at four out of five."
  • "The price is better than some competing products."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Splunk handles a high amount of data very well. We use Splunk to capture information and as an aggregator for monitoring information from different sources. Splunk is very good at alerting us if we… more »
    Top Answer:It's a Microsoft native tool, so it works well with other Microsoft technologies, which is predominantly what our customer end-user base is.
    Top Answer: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… more »
    Top Answer:There are many factors and we know little about your requirements (size of org, technology stack, management systems, the scope of implementation). Our goal was to consolidate APM and infra… more »
    Top Answer:With Datadog, we have near-live visibility across our entire platform. We have seen APM metrics impacted several times lately using the dashboards we have created with Datadog; they are very good core… more »
    Top Answer:Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether the Datadog or Dynatrace network monitoring software was the better fit for us. We decided to go with Dynatrace. Dynatrace offers network… more »
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    Overview

    Azure Monitor maximizes the availability and performance of your applications by delivering a comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments. It helps you understand how your applications are performing and proactively identifies issues affecting them and the resources they depend on.

    Datadog is a cloud monitoring solution that is designed to assist administrators, IT teams, and other members of an organization who are charged with keeping a close eye on their networks. Administrators can use Datadog to set real-time alerts and schedule automated report generation. They can deal with issues as they arise and keep up to date with the overall health of their network while still being able to focus on other tasks. Users can also track the historical performance of their networks and ensure that they operate at the highest possible level.

    Datadog Benefits

    Some of the ways that organizations can benefit by deploying Datadog include:

    • Gain an integrated view of the services and programs that IT teams are employing across their networks. Users can view and monitor all of the disparate programs that they have running across their networks with this one solution. They can track these programs across the entirety of the data’s life cycle.
    • Analyze and utilize massive amounts of data in real time. Datadog’s dashboards gather data in real time. Administrators can utilize their network’s data the minute that it becomes relevant to them. Decisions can be made based on the most current information available.
    • Keep your cloud network secured against digital threats. Datadog enables users to create alerts that will notify the minute that threats arise. IT teams and administrators can rapidly address any issue that comes up and prevent any existing problem from growing worse.
    • Easily get it up and running. Users can set up Datadog, configure it, and employ API integrations to connect it to external solutions with ease.

    Datadog Features

    • Customizable and prefabricated monitoring dashboards. Administrators are supplied with two different types of dashboards that they can choose from when they are setting up Datadog. They can customize the dashboards to fit any specialized monitoring need. Additionally, users can choose to use prefabricated dashboards that come with the solution.
    • Disaster recovery feature. Datadog has a built-in feature that enables organizations to continue functioning if some disaster strikes their network. If the network suffers damage, Datadog can restore lost data and infrastructure. Should a digital threat do damage to the network, Datadog ensures that the damage is not irreparable.
    • Vulnerability scanning tool. Users can keep ahead of threats to their networks by employing Datadog’s vulnerability scanning feature. This tool scans the entirety of a user’s network and warns them if a vulnerability is detected. Users can then move to patch these holes in their security before the threat to their network can escalate.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Datadog is a solution that stands out when compared to many of its competitors. It can offer organizations many advantages. Two major advantages are the dashboards that users can create and the monitoring capability that it gives system administrators.

    A senior manager in charge of site reliability engineering at Extra Space Storage writes, “The dashboards we created are core indicators of the health of our system, and it is one of the most reliable sources we have turned to, especially as we have seen APM metrics impacted several times lately. We can usually rely on logs to tell us what the apps are doing.”

    Housecall Pro’s senior director of DevOps writes, “We value the monitoring capability since it allows us to be pushed alerts, rather than having to observe graphs continually.

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    Azure Monitor vs. Datadog
    March 2023
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    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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