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.
"The most valuable feature is that it ensures our servers are up."
"It has good troubleshooting features."
"Azure Monitor's best features are its graphs and charts, the different visibility options, and reporting."
"The dashboard allows us to easily track various metrics and quickly understand the overall health of our system."
"Azure Monitor gives us the observability to check everything that we have in the cloud."
"It's a service from Microsoft, so it will scale."
"For me, the best feature is the log analysis with Azure Monitor's Log Analytics. Without being able to analyze the logs of all the activities that affect the performance of a machine, your monitoring effectiveness will be severely limited."
"It's a Microsoft native tool, so it works well with other Microsoft technologies, which is predominantly what our customer end-user base is."
"The integration into AWS is key as well as our software is currently bound to AWS."
"The solution has helped out organization gain improved visibility."
"Overall, the Data UI and the usability of customer features continue to improve."
"I have found error reporting and log centralization the most valuable features. Overall, Datadog provides a full package solution."
"It has scaled great. I haven't run into any problems anywhere that I've used it. They have handled everything that we have needed them to."
"The observability pipelines are the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"The service catalog helped improve our organization by giving a good view of the flow for our microservices applications."
"It is a good one stop location where we keep all our data for our infrastructure, and it's also easier to navigate between different things."
"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."
"Lacks information including details related to where problems lie."
"n comparison to New Relic, which I've used before, it's a bit more complicated. It's not as easy to use. It also took some time to get it working. The implementation needs to be simpler."
"Azure Monitor could improve network performance monitoring and make it more advanced."
"There is room for improvement in stability."
"We cannot use AI services with the solution."
"The solution should have cross-connection or cross-communication between tech partners."
"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."
"The documentation could be improved regarding setting up the agent properly and debugging."
"I found the solution to be stable, I did not experience any bugs or glitches. However, some of the managing team did."
"Geo-data is also something very critical that we hope to see in the future."
"The ability to find what you are looking for when starting out could be improved."
"To be very fair, I haven't had enough experience with Datadog to pick out improvements."
"It would be ideal if the product offered a bit more monitoring from our dashboard."
"The parallel editing of the dashboards should not cause users to lose the work of another person."
"The product could be improved by providing remote control to agents, enabling them to execute automation and collections without requiring another automation tool or integration."
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 136 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, AppDynamics and Elastic Observability. See our Azure Monitor vs. Datadog report.
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