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Chronosphere vs Datadog comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 1, 2024
 

Categories and Ranking

Chronosphere
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
34th
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
42nd
Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software
29th
Ranking in AIOps
15th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Datadog
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
1st
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
2nd
Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software
1st
Ranking in AIOps
1st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
187
Ranking in other categories
Network Monitoring Software (3rd), Log Management (3rd), Container Monitoring (1st), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Cloud Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of Chronosphere is 0.2%, down from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Datadog is 8.7%, down from 9.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Arvind Pant - PeerSpot reviewer
Monitors pipelines with real-time alerts and good documentation
It isn't very easy. It's not easy for everyone. It would be much easier if there could be a simpler version, like a data number version or an SQL version. It's hard to debug if you don't know the syntax. Also, I saw the Slack alerts feature, which is pretty cool, but I cannot customize my messages on the Slack alerts. It would be great if it were possible to tag people in the alerts. At DoorDash, we have hundreds of pipelines, and if something fails, I want to tag specific people so they can start working on the issue immediately.
Kevin Palmer - PeerSpot reviewer
Useful log aggregation and management with helpful metrics aggregation
Datadog provides us value in three major ways: First, Datadog provides best-in-class functionality in many, if not all, of the products to which we subscribe (infrastructure, APM, log management, serverless, synthetics, real user monitoring, DB monitoring). In my experience with other tools that provide similar functionality, Datadog provides the largest feature set with the most flexibility and the best performance. Second, Datadog allows us to access all of those services in one place. Having to learn and manage only one tool for all of those purposes is a major benefit. Third, Datadog provides significant connectivity between those services so that we can view, summarize, organize, translate and correlate our data with maximum effect. Not needing to manually integrate them to draw lines between those pieces of information is a huge time savings for us.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The alerting features are good"
"It has turned into an operational dashboard. If you felt something is going wrong, you can immediately open up Datadog. It has been our go to application because we know the answer will be there."
"We have found that we're able to get in and out of troubleshooting issues much more rapidly, which in turn, of course, enables us to spend more time on our products."
"It brings in observability, monitoring, and alerting capabilities - all of which we need to operate at scale."
"The ease of dashboard creation and alarm monitoring has helped us not only stay competitive but be industry leaders in performance."
"Datadog has proven to be easy to set up and legible for both development and operational teams."
"The dashboards are super convenient to us for a more zoomed out view of what is going on with each integration that we utilize."
"The dashboards are great."
"We have hundreds of microservices, and knowing how top-level requests weave throughout all of them is invaluable."
 

Cons

"It's not easy for everyone."
"I'd like to see an expansion of the Android and IOS apps to have a simplified CI/CD pipeline history view."
"The documentation leaves a lot to be desired for new users."
"Stability of the product has been a concern for us outside of the primary monitoring agents."
"In some cases the screenshots don't match the text as updates are made."
"The product could do better with its notifications."
"The solution needs to integrate AI tools."
"The product needs to have more enterprise approach to configuration."
"I like the idea of monitoring on the go yet it seems the options are still a bit limited out of the box."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"My advice is to really keep an eye on your overage costs, as they can spiral really fast."
"It costs the same amount it would if we were hosting it ourselves, so we are incredibly happy with the cost."
"​Pricing seems reasonable. It depends on the size of your organization, the size of your infrastructure, and what portion of your overall business costs go toward infrastructure."
"The cost is high and this can be justified if the scale of the environment is big."
"Pricing is somewhat affordable compared to other solutions but in order to really lower the costs of other products you need to plan very carefully your resources usage, otherwise, it can get expensive real quick."
"While it is an expensive product, I would rate the pricing level at four out of five."
"They prefer monthly subscriptions."
"Licensing is based on the retention period of logs and metrics."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
17%
Manufacturing Company
14%
Computer Software Company
12%
Retailer
10%
Educational Organization
37%
Computer Software Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Chronosphere?
It isn't very easy. It's not easy for everyone. It would be much easier if there could be a simpler version, like a data number version or an SQL version. It's hard to debug if you don't know the s...
What is your primary use case for Chronosphere?
I work as a data engineer, and we have many streaming pipelines. We use Chronosphere to monitor various metrics, such as how much data our pipeline is processing in each batch, the volume of incomi...
What advice do you have for others considering Chronosphere?
If you want to monitor pipelines and use something like Kafka or any streaming platform, Chronosphere is the best option for monitoring pipelines with real-time alerts. It is loosely coupled with y...
Any advice about APM solutions?
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 monitor...
Datadog vs ELK: which one is good in terms of performance, cost and efficiency?
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 c...
Which would you choose - Datadog or Dynatrace?
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 ...
 

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