We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudWatch and Datadog based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Datadog ultimately won out in this comparison. According to reviews, Datadog appears to be a more comprehensive and high performing solution. Amazon CloudWatch does come out on top in the setup and pricing categories, however.
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is intrusion prevention."
"The detection is the most valuable feature."
"Amazon CloudWatch's best feature stems from its ability to monitor app performance."
"Every time we get an alarm or have an incident, CloudWatch is always there. We use it not only for resources we've spun up in the cloud, but also for some of our on-premises resources."
"We can create events and alerts. We use the information to dive down into the infrastructure performance."
"Amazon CloudWatch is a cheap and easy-to-use solution."
"The alarms are one thing I love about AWS CloudWatch. It has alerts that notify us when resource use is approaching the limit."
"The product helps us collect and store various metrics to set test alarms."
"The most valuable aspect is the APM which can monitor the metrics and latencies."
"Datadog is easy to use and easy to deploy. It's a better solution compared to others on the market in terms of being budget friendly for our customers."
"Thanks to the logs, we manage to make better reports through Jira and also to trace the request with more facility than we would be able to do otherwise."
"Sometimes it's more user friendly for development teams. There are some parts of Datadog that are more understandable for development teams. For example, the APM in Datadog works more manually and works like the tools in New Relic or Grafana, or Elastic. It is easier to understand for software development teams."
"The most valuable aspect is for us to have everything in one place."
"Datadog's ability to group and visualize the servers and the data makes it relatively easy for the root cause analysis."
"The CCM, Workflows, Logs, APM, and RUM are all useful aspects of the solution."
"Datadog has so far been a breeze to use and set up."
"Amazon CloudWatch needs improvement. The main thing is we have noticed missing logs."
"This product lacks some features: real-time data stream monitoring, application performance monitoring, mobile app monitoring, and live dashboards. Its workflows also need improvement."
"The solution's integration could be easier for laypersons."
"What would make Amazon CloudWatch better is if it includes more on-site checks, particularly status checks on the CPU, network input/output, etc. It would also be helpful if there's built-in swap space, disk, and memory monitoring in Amazon CloudWatch because, at the moment, my team has to configure it manually through a shell script."
"I would like to monitor inbound and outbound transfer. I would also like to control the traffic for load balancing."
"It's not an advanced way of monitoring."
"The dashboard and the UI could improve in Amazon CloudWatch. Additionally, they should focus on visibility inside the servers with AI and machine learning integrations. This would allow users who are using the solution to see what is happening within the system better."
"The configuration capabilities could be better."
"The real issue with this product is cost control."
"The current way accounts are billed could be vastly improved - especially when involving multiple organizations across multiple accounts in combination with reserved commitments."
"We need more advanced querying against logs."
"The installation is easy for me. However, if you are new to this solution it might not be so easy."
"Datadog could always lower the price!"
"To be very fair, I haven't had enough experience with Datadog to pick out improvements."
"Stability of the product has been a concern for us outside of the primary monitoring agents."
"The parallel editing of the dashboards should not cause users to lose the work of another person."
Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 9th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 40 reviews while Datadog is ranked 1st in Cloud Monitoring Software with 137 reviews. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while Datadog is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudWatch writes "Instantaneous response when monitoring logs and KPIs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Zabbix, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), Dynatrace, SolarWinds NPM and Nagios XI, whereas Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Coralogix. See our Amazon CloudWatch vs. Datadog report.
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