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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Datadog

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ADatadog 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.

    $18

    per month per host

    Google Cloud Operations Suite

    Score7.2 out of 10
    N/AThe Google Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver) is an APM platform based on three tools for error detection, tracing, and resolution. It manages cloud-based or on-premise applications in live or mid-production environments.

    $0.01

    per 1,000 read API calls

    Pricing
    DatadogGoogle Cloud Operations Suite
    Editions & Modules
    Log Management
    $1.27
    per month (billed annually) per host
    Infrastructure
    $15.00
    per month (billed annually) per host
    Standard
    $18
    per month per host
    Enterprise
    $27
    per month per host
    DevSecOps Pro
    $27
    per month per host
    APM
    $31.00
    per month (billed annually) per host
    DevSecOps Enterprise
    $41
    per month per host
    Monitoring API Calls
    $0.01
    per 1,000 read API calls
    Trace Ingestion
    $0.20
    per million spans
    Monitoring Data
    $0.26
    per MB
    Logging Data
    $0.50
    per GB
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DatadogGoogle Cloud Operations Suite
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing. Multi-Year/Volume discounts available (500+ hosts/mo).—
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    Community Pulse
    DatadogGoogle Cloud Operations Suite
    Considered Both Products
    Datadog
    No answer on this topic
    Google
    Chose Google Cloud Operations Suite
    Honestly, because it is from Google, we also mainly chose this product on the recommendation of other friends and businesses, and because of its reliability, security and ease of access. It also has excellent technical support and warranty. The staff is fast and super efficient …
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    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
    51 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    42 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    53 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    33 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    37 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    DatadogGoogle Cloud Operations Suite
    Monitoring Tasks
    Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Datadog and Google Cloud Operations Suite
    Feature
    Datadog
    8.3
    3 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Google Cloud Operations Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Remote monitoring8.53 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network device monitoring7.72 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Server Monitoring8.23 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-device monitoring8.23 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated alerts and notifications8.93 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management Tasks
    Comparison of Management Tasks features of Datadog and Google Cloud Operations Suite
    Feature
    Datadog
    6.5
    2 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Google Cloud Operations Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Patch Management7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service configuration management6.41 Ratings00 Ratings
    Software and hardware inventory5.51 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy-based automation6.92 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting
    Comparison of Reporting features of Datadog and Google Cloud Operations Suite
    Feature
    Datadog
    8.4
    3 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Google Cloud Operations Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Performance data reports8.13 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable reporting7.83 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data visualization8.83 Ratings00 Ratings
    Risk analysis8.93 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Datadog and Google Cloud Operations Suite
    Feature
    Datadog
    7.2
    2 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Google Cloud Operations Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Data backup and recovery6.41 Ratings00 Ratings
    Antivirus and malware management7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
    Administrator access control7.82 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Datadog and Google Cloud Operations Suite
    Feature
    Datadog
    -
    Ratings
    Google Cloud Operations Suite
    8.6
    2 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Application monitoring00 Ratings9.12 Ratings
    Database monitoring00 Ratings9.12 Ratings
    Threshold alerts00 Ratings7.32 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Application performance management console00 Ratings6.42 Ratings
    Collaboration tools00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring00 Ratings8.22 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting00 Ratings8.22 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
    LogicMonitor
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    Score7.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    User Ratings
    DatadogGoogle Cloud Operations Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (66 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    4.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (45 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.0
    (7 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DatadogGoogle Cloud Operations Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Datadog
    Datadog may be better suited for teams that have a more out-of-the-box infrastructure, on the primary platforms Datadog supports. You may also have better results if you have a bigger team dedicated to devops and/or a bigger budget. We found that trying to adapt it to our use case (small team, .NET on AWS Fargate) wasn't feasible. We continually ran into roadblocks that required us to dig through documentation (and at times, having to figure out some documentation was wrong), go back and forth with support, and in my opinion, waste money on excessive and unintended usages due to opaque pricing models and inaccurate usage reports, as well as broken/non-functional rate sampling controls.
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    Google
    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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    Pros
    Datadog
    • The thing which Datadog does really well, one of them are its broad range of services integrations and features which makes it one step observability solution for all. We can monitor all types of our application, infrastructure, hosts, databases etc with Datadog.
    • Its custom dashboard feature which helps us to visualize the data in a better way . It supports different types of charts through those charts we can create our dashboard more attractive.
    • Its AI powered alerting capability though that we can easily identify the root cause and also it has a low noise alerting capability which means it correlated the similar type of issues.
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    Google
    • 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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    Cons
    Datadog
    • Alert windows cause lag in notifications (e.g. if the alert window is X errors in 1 hour, we won't get alerted until the end of the 1 hour range)
    • I would appreciate more supportive examples for how to filter and view metrics in the explorer
    • I would like a more clear interface for metrics that are missing in a time frame, rather than only showing tags/etc. for metrics that were collected within the currently viewed time frame
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    Google
    • 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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    Likelihood to Renew
    Datadog
    Definitely will not revisit after our issues and, in my opinion, poor support.
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    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Datadog
    There are so many features that it can be hard to figure out where you need to go for your own use case. For example, RUM monitoring us buried in a "Digital Experience" sidebar setting when this is one of our key use cases that I sometimes struggle to find in the application. It appears that ECS + Fargate monitoring was recently released which is great because we had to build a lambda reporting solution for ephemeral task monitoring. But this new feature was never on my radar until I starting clicking around the application.
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    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Datadog
    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.
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    Google
    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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    Implementation Rating
    Datadog
    Documentation was difficult to work through, rollout was catastrophic (completely outage)
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    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Datadog
    Our logs are very important, and Datadog manages them exceptionally well. We frequently use Datadog services for our investigations. Use case: Monitor your apps, infrastructure, APIs, and user experience.


    Key features:


    Logs, metrics, and APM (Application Performance Monitoring)


    Real-time alerting and dashboards


    Supports Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, and other integrations


    RUM (Real User Monitoring) and Synthetics





    ✅ Best for backend, server, and distributed systems monitoring.
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    Google
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    Return on Investment
    Datadog
    • Saved us (time & money) from developing our own monitoring utilities that would pale in comparison
    • Alerts allow us to remedy issues before our customers even know about them
    • Tracking resource usage over time allows us to better plan for future needs, before it becomes a pain-point.
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    Google
    • 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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    ScreenShots

    Datadog Screenshots

    Screenshot of the out-of-the-box and customizable monitoring dashboards.Screenshot of Datadog's collaboration features, where users can discuss issues in-context with production data, annotate changes and notify their teams, see who responded to that alert before, and discover what was done to fix it.Screenshot of where Datadog unifies traces, metrics, and logs—the three pillars of observability.Screenshot of some of Datadog's 400+ built-in integrations.Screenshot of Datadog's Service Map, which decomposes an application into all its component services and draws the observed dependencies between these services in real timeScreenshot of centralized log data, pulled from any source.