Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Datadog
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
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.
$18
per month per host
GraphPad Prism
Score 9.4 out of 10
N/A
Prism, from Dotmatics since the company's acquisition of original developer GraphPad in 2017, is an analysis and graphing solution purpose-built for scientific research. Prism is specifically formatted for scientific analyses, including analysis of quantitative and categorical data. This also makes it easier to enter data correctly, choose suitable analyses, and create graphs or other visualizations.
$380
per year
Pricing
DatadogGraphPad Prism
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
Corporate
starting at $660
per year 2 seats
Academic
starting at $380
per year 2 seats
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
DatadogGraphPad Prism
Free Trial
YesYes
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
DatadogGraphPad Prism
Features
DatadogGraphPad Prism
BI Standard Reporting
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Datadog
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Ratings
GraphPad Prism
5.5
1 Ratings
38% below category average
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Datadog
-
Ratings
GraphPad Prism
6.5
1 Ratings
18% below category average
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Datadog
-
Ratings
GraphPad Prism
9.0
1 Ratings
10% above category average
Publish to PDF00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Datadog
-
Ratings
GraphPad Prism
9.0
1 Ratings
15% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
DatadogGraphPad Prism
Likelihood to Recommend
9.4
(55 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.2
(34 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.9
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
DatadogGraphPad Prism
Likelihood to Recommend
Datadog
As per my experience, Datadog is best suited for complex, cloud-native environments where unified observability is critical, as it integrates seamlessly with AWS and Azure. Moreover, it provides deep visibility into latency and error rates. Datadog pricing is less appropriate for Startups with a tight budget and for organizations needing advanced incident management.
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Dotmatics
If you need to use multiple softwares to compile data such as spreadsheets, another app to run statistics, or another software to make graph and layout, you can try Graphpad Prism because it can do all of this in just a few clicks.
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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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Dotmatics
  • Graphs
  • Data analysis
  • Layouts
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Cons
Datadog
  • In my experience, .NET Tracing Agent caused severe and untraceable performance issues
  • In my opinion, usage and billing structures were opaque and surprising
  • In my experience, documentation was incomplete, contradicting or sometimes completely wrong, even for common infrastructure (AWS Fargate)
  • I feel support was unhelpful at times, and bounced us back and forth to other teams
  • In my opinion, multiple methods of sample rate control were ineffective, adding to excessive usage and cost
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Dotmatics
  • The layout feature have been improved over the years but I believe it could be improved by adding more editing tool specially those for images.
  • Prism should have more packages for stat analysis.
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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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Dotmatics
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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Dotmatics
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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Dotmatics
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Datadog
Documentation was difficult to work through, rollout was catastrophic (completely outage)
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Dotmatics
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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Dotmatics
Graphpad can process multiple steps in just one platform. Database > Stats > Graphs > Layouts > Export
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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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Dotmatics
  • It improved a lot the way we show data, and therefore it increased our visibility.
  • Analysis performed by this software gives credibility.
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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.