Compare Datadog vs. LightStep
Datadog is ranked 3rd in Application Performance Management (APM) with 10 reviews while LightStep is ranked 61st in Application Performance Management (APM). Datadog is rated 8.0, while LightStep is rated 0. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "They have a good ecosystem for their integrations". On the other hand, Datadog is most compared with Splunk, Dynatrace, New Relic APM, Zabbix and AppDynamics, whereas LightStep is most compared with New Relic APM, Dynatrace, Splunk and AWS X-Ray.
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The pricing came up a bit compared to their competitors. It is not that the price has risen, but that the competitors have gone down. They keep adding more features that I would have expected to be baked in at a more nominal price. I have been increasingly dissatisfied with the pricing, but not enough to jump ship. It costs the same amount it would if we were hosting it ourselves, so we are incredibly happy with the cost. At my last company, we did see ROI, specifically around response time. We could get to mission critical things that were down and losing revenue on immediately. So, the product paid itself back. The pricing and licensing through AWS Marketplace has been good. It would be nice if it was cheaper, but their pricing is reasonable for what it is. Sometimes, for their newer features, they charge as if it's fully fleshed out, even though it is a newer feature and it may have less stuff than their other items. It has always scaled for us. Cost scales up too, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. It's reasonable for what they're providing. Pricing and licensing are reasonable for what they give you. You get the first five hosts free, which is fun to play around with. Then it's about four dollars a month per host, which is very affordable for what you get out of it. We have a lot of hosts that we put a lot of custom metrics into, and every host gives you an allowance for the number of custom metrics. | Information Not Available |
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| Datadog is a monitoring service for IT, Dev and Ops teams who write and run applications at scale, and want to turn the massive amounts of data produced by their apps, tools and services into actionable insight. | LightStep analyzes 100% of unsampled transaction data from highly-distributed, large-scale production software to produce complete end-to-end traces and robust metrics that explain performance behaviors and accelerate root cause analysis. LightStep is backed by Sequoia, Redpoint, and Altimeter. |
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Sample Customers | |
| Adobe, Samsung, facebook, HP Cloud Services, Electronic Arts, salesforce, Stanford University, CiTRIX, Chef, zendesk, Hearst Magazines, Spotify, mercardo libre, Slashdot, Ziff Davis, PBS, MLS, The Motley Fool, Politico, Barneby's | InVision, Twilio, Lyft, Yext, DigitalOcean, |
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Comms Service Provider25% Financial Services Firm13% Manufacturing Company13% Media Company13% Software R&D Company38% Comms Service Provider11% Media Company8% Retailer6% | No Data Available |
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Small Business57% Midsize Enterprise29% Large Enterprise14% Small Business30% Midsize Enterprise12% Large Enterprise58% | No Data Available |
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