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Based on 13 reviews and ratings
Feature Set Ratings
Application Performance Management

Datadog
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
8.6
Google Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver)
86%
Google Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver) ranks higher in 12/12 features
Google Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver) ranks higher in 12/12 features
Application monitoring

N/A
0 Ratings
9.1
91%
2 Ratings
Database monitoring

N/A
0 Ratings
9.1
91%
2 Ratings
Threshold alerts

N/A
0 Ratings
7.4
74%
2 Ratings
Predictive capabilities

N/A
0 Ratings
9.0
90%
1 Rating
Application performance management console

N/A
0 Ratings
6.5
65%
2 Ratings
Collaboration tools

N/A
0 Ratings
9.0
90%
1 Rating
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications

N/A
0 Ratings
9.0
90%
1 Rating
Application dependency mapping and thresholding

N/A
0 Ratings
8.0
80%
1 Rating
Virtualization monitoring

N/A
0 Ratings
10.0
100%
1 Rating
Server availability and performance monitoring

N/A
0 Ratings
8.2
82%
2 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting

N/A
0 Ratings
8.2
82%
2 Ratings
IT Asset Discovery

N/A
0 Ratings
10.0
100%
1 Rating
Attribute Ratings
- Datadog is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
- Google Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated higher in 1 area: Support Rating
Likelihood to Recommend

9.0
Datadog
90%
19 Ratings
8.2
Google Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver)
82%
2 Ratings
Usability

10.0
Datadog
100%
1 Rating
Google Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver)
N/A
0 Ratings
Support Rating

8.8
Datadog
88%
10 Ratings
10.0
Google Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver)
100%
2 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Datadog
Datadog is a no-brainer for any environment that relies on multiple servers. Even for one server, it's so much better to use for monitoring and alert capability than anything else I remember looking at before we started using Datadog. Teams can even use it to track their progress of investigating an alert so multiple people aren't unknowingly looking into the same exact issue unnecessarily.

Verified User
Director in Research & Development
Financial Services Company, 1-10 employeesGoogle Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver)
Easy to set up in all environments. With this tool, the company is now able to measure both well-functioning data and data that needs immediate intervention. This early detection facilitates decisions about actions to correct the disorder and improve indexes. Stackdriver is now essential for the company's security and monitoring team and we plan to expand to other branches.
IT Specialist
General MotorsAutomotive, 10,001+ employees
Pros
Datadog
- APIs, the ability to interact with the data we pull into data dog is key. We port the information over to Servicenow, so the ability to pull everything into DataDog, then Servicenow, is a key component of our success here at Wayfair.
- Simple Interface - clean, useful, effective. Allows users to use DataDog for one reason, get work done.
- Lightweight agent on hosts
ServiceNow Lead Engineer/Architect
WayfairInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees
Google Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver)
- All the application error reporting available at a single place.
- You will get the real-time application error and alerts.
- It's really easy to use and no need to worry for the setup.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Technology & Services Company, 51-200 employeesCons
Datadog
- User interface could be improved in some areas, looking for host information and the agent install link takes a bit of time.
- Configuration of the agent is generally done via a config file which is a pro and a con. It would be nice to have some UI to configure various agent options.
- Billing isn't entirely straightforward, they could use more reports to figure out the source of your monthly costs.
Software Architect
SpringAheadInternet, 51-200 employees
Google Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver)
- For searching and filtering the logs the system is slow sometimes.
- An agent needs to be installed in each VM to monitor specific metrics.
- The pricing model is confusing.
IT Specialist
General MotorsAutomotive, 10,001+ employees
Pricing Details
Datadog
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
Optional
Starting Price
$0 Up to 5 hosts
Datadog Editions & Modules
On-premise Edition
Infrastructure | $15.001 |
---|---|
Log Management | $1.272 |
APM | $31.003 |
- Per Host Per Month
- Per Million Log Events
- Per Host Per Month
SaaS Edition
Free | $01 |
---|---|
Standard | $15/host2 |
Enterprise | Custom3 |
- Up to 5 hosts
- Up to 500 hosts
- 500+ hosts
Additional Pricing Details
—Google Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver)
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$1 per 1,000 read API calls
Google Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver) Editions & Modules
Edition
Logging Data | 0.501 |
---|---|
Monitoring Data | 0.25802 |
Monitoring API Calls | 0.013 |
Trace Ingestion | 0.204 |
- per GB
- per MB
- per 1,000 read API calls
- per million spans
Additional Pricing Details
—Usability
Datadog
Datadog 10.0
Based on 1 answer
The user interface is quite intuitive with the exception of the network map. As a deployer of software, it is trivial to setup.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 501-1000 employeesGoogle Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver)
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Datadog
Datadog 8.8
Based on 10 answers
The support team usually gets it right. We did have a rather complicate issue setting up monitoring on a domain controller. However, they are usually responsive and helpful over chat. The downside would be I don’t think they have any phone support. If that is important to you this might not be a good fit.

Verified User
Director in Information Technology
Consumer Goods Company, 51-200 employeesGoogle Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver)
Google Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver) 10.0
Based on 2 answers
It is also a great problem detection tool, and this is extremely important for General Motors.
The user can count on the ease of flexible panels and advanced visualization tools that help to identify problems. Among the most common, we can mention:
- containment of hosts;
- cloud provider limitation;
- hardware wear.
And also Stackdriver Integration with other Google Cloud data tools such as BigQuery, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage and Cloud Database.
IT Specialist
General MotorsAutomotive, 10,001+ employees
Alternatives Considered
Datadog
We are still trying other products, but people still like Datadog. After setting up a dashboard, it's great for monitoring instances on Datadog. Also, the DevOps team had a good time setting up Datadog. It means Datadog was way easier to set up compared to those others.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 201-500 employeesGoogle Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver)

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Technology & Services Company, 51-200 employeesReturn on Investment
Datadog
- One of our critical production databases went down a couple of weeks back. Just because we had the Datadog monitoring enabled for that database, Datadog sent the alerts to PagerDuty and we were instantly notified via pager and email alert. We could act right away and bring up the database within a few mins.
- Ability to create custom screenboards have allowed us to track the critical and warning alerts in front of our eyes all the time
Systems Analyst, Engineering
Dreamworks AnimationEntertainment, 1001-5000 employees
Google Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver)
- We completely depends on Stackdriver for error monitoring and reporting.
- Stackdriver is very simple to use and available at default.
- Stackdriver is the key part for our business to get the insight of our application behavior.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Technology & Services Company, 51-200 employees