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.
"Good load and metrics gathering and very good analysis."
"Azure Monitor is very stable."
"Recently, they have improved their integration with other resources, so we get even more robust data."
"It is a robust, stable product."
"Among the valuable features of this solution, Application Insights stands out as one of the most significant. It provides insights into application performance and helps identify issues and bottlenecks."
"Provides an overview and high-level information."
"We like this searchability and availability of the data."
"I use the solution to monitor the infrastructure and applications."
"Excellent autocomplete for everything in the UI."
"The ability to easily drill down into log queries quickly and efficiently has helped us to resolve several critical incidents."
"Its logs are most valuable."
"Anything I've wanted to do, I found a way to get it done through Datadog."
"We rely heavily on the API crawlers that Datadog uses for cloud integrations. These allow us to pick up and leverage the tags teams have already deployed without having also to make them add them at the agent level."
"It provides more cloud data. They tend to just get the way a service would be designed on the cloud."
"It is great that creating an incident is possible from Slack while having all the relevant data in Datadog."
"I have found the logging and tracing features the most valuable."
"When something goes down, we want the option to have automation in place to get it back up again as quickly as possible."
"Lacks information including details related to where problems lie."
"Azure Monitor is not user-friendly, and the interface is not exciting. Switching between the dashboards is not easy."
"The troubleshooting logs need improvement. There should be some improvement there. I have a hard time finding the right logs at the right times whenever there is an issue occurring."
"Setting up this solution is complex. It's also missing the functionality of assigning alerts."
"There is room for improvement in stability."
"have used multiple products like Webex and PRTG. Some features could be added. Azure Monitor should add SMS and APIs. We have very limited access to Azure Monitor. I usually get alerts on my phone when they are integrated with Slack. I am not always available, but my team is. Sometimes, I am traveling and don't have access to my email, but I have Slack and other third-party projects that send me instant messages if a sensor goes down."
"I would like more transparency when we use the solution with another environment, like on-premises, or on another cloud environment, like AWS or GCP."
"Deploying the agents is still very manual."
"I sometimes log in and see items changed, either in the UI or a feature enabled. To see it for the first time without proper communication can sometimes come as a shock."
"It does not have the best interface."
"Sometimes, it takes a long time to load the dashboard if we have many charts."
"I would like testing for data in the future."
"One area where I was really looking for improvement was the CSPM product line. I had really wanted to have team-level visibility for findings, since the team managing the resources has much more context and ability to resolve the issue, as the service owner. However, this has been added to the announcement in a recent keynote."
"I'd like to see better pricing and more integration in the next release."
"Datadog could always lower the price!"
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 44 reviews while Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability 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, Prometheus, Sentry, 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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