Datadog vs Google Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver)

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

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Director in Research & Development

Financial Services Company, 1-10 employees

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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.

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Sara Silveira

IT Specialist

General MotorsAutomotive, 10,001+ employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Datadog

Google Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver)

Application monitoring

Database monitoring

Threshold alerts

Predictive capabilities

Application performance management console

Collaboration tools

Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications

Application dependency mapping and thresholding

Virtualization monitoring

Server availability and performance monitoring

Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting

IT Asset Discovery

Pros

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

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Anthony Zappala

ServiceNow Lead Engineer/Architect

WayfairInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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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.

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Engineer in Engineering

Information Technology & Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Cons

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.

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Kevin Van Heusen

Software Architect

SpringAheadInternet, 51-200 employees

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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.

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Sara Silveira

IT Specialist

General MotorsAutomotive, 10,001+ employees

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Usability

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.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 501-1000 employees

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No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Support Rating

Datadog 8.4

Based on 12 answers

Our experience working with their support found them to be helpful and quick to respond. Also, as many of their integrations are open source, improvements we desired could be tracked and even driven by us. Their documentation is excellent and makes integrating their tooling simple and makes standing up monitoring for new application a quick and painless process.

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Professional in Information Technology

Human Resources Company, 51-200 employees

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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.

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Sara Silveira

IT Specialist

General MotorsAutomotive, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

New Relic APM is a great application performance monitoring tool, but the agent was producing an increased load on our system compared to Datadog. Datadog also gives the flexibility of going outside of the boundaries of the application and looking at system performance as well, which can have a large impact on application performance.

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Stephen Groat

Senior Security Engineer

TealiumMarketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees

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Engineer in Engineering

Information Technology & Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

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

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Rajeshh Raghavan

Systems Analyst, Engineering

Dreamworks AnimationEntertainment, 1001-5000 employees

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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.

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Engineer in Engineering

Information Technology & Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

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

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General

Free Trial

—

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

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

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Rating Summary

Datadog

Google Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver)

Datadog

Google Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver)

Datadog

Google Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver)

Datadog

Google Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver)

Likelihood to Recommend

Datadog

Google Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver)

Feature Rating Comparison

Application monitoring

Database monitoring

Threshold alerts

Predictive capabilities

Application performance management console

Collaboration tools

Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications

Application dependency mapping and thresholding

Virtualization monitoring

Server availability and performance monitoring

Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting

IT Asset Discovery

Pros

Datadog

Google Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver)

Cons

Datadog

Google Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver)

Usability

Datadog

Google Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver)

Support Rating

Datadog

Google Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver)

Alternatives Considered

Datadog

Google Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver)

Return on Investment

Datadog

Google Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver)

Screenshots

Datadog

Google Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver)

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Datadog Editions & Modules

On-premise Edition

SaaS Edition

Additional Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Google Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver) Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

Rating Summary

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