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.
"A product that is well-integrated for monitoring Microsoft Azure."
"The most valuable feature is that it ensures our servers are up."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the alert system, which can be set according to our metrics. The integration is smooth."
"Azure Monitor is useful because of the useful application insights and telemetry, such as metrics and logs."
"The solution integrates well with the Microsoft platform."
"Provides an overview and high-level information."
"It is a robust, stable product."
"The tools for logs and metrics are pretty good and easy to use."
"Integrating Datadog with other platforms has made our monitoring processes a bit easier. It's not super simple, but it's manageable."
"The most valuable aspects of the product include the APM and profiler."
"Their interface is probably one of the easiest things to use because it lets non-developers and non-engineers quickly get access to metrics and pull business value out of them. We could put together dashboards and give it to people who are non-technical, then they can see the state of the world."
"The most valuable features are logging, the extensive set of integrations, and easy jumpstart."
"Datadog documentation on web pages has improved a lot and is pretty easy to follow and find."
"I like the amount of tooling and the number of solutions they sold with their monitoring. Datadog was highly intuitive to use."
"The flexibility to create notebooks and dashboards and fully customize them gives us a lot of power to track the exact services and endpoints we are working on."
"It is easy to implement and scale applications with standardized visibility, monitoring and alerting"
"There is room for improvement in stability."
"We cannot use AI services with the solution."
"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."
"The scalability could be improved as there are some limitations."
"If it is configured incorrectly, you can end up with a huge bill."
"They need to work on a more hybrid deployment that will allow us to monitor local on-premise deployments and connect to different systems. I would like to see more integration."
"Azure Monitor's integration with applications could be improved."
"Azure Monitor could improve network performance monitoring and make it more advanced."
"It would be ideal if the product offered a bit more monitoring from our dashboard."
"Datadog could always lower the price!"
"Once Datadog has gained wide adoption, it can often be overwhelming to both know and understand where to go to find answers to questions."
"The error traceability is an area that can be improved."
"I found the solution to be stable, I did not experience any bugs or glitches. However, some of the managing team did."
"Billing should be more transparent."
"I would like testing for data in the future."
"I'm not sure if Datadog can monitor K8s deployments in real-time. For instance, being able to see a deployment step by step visually. This would be helpful if there were any incidents during the deployment."
Azure Monitor is ranked 5th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 44 reviews while Datadog is ranked 1st in Cloud Monitoring Software 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, Sentry, Prometheus, 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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