Datadog vs. OpsGenie

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Datadog
Score 8.5 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.
$0
Up to 5 hosts
OpsGenie
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
OpsGenie is an IT monitoring and incident response platform for development and operations teams, providing alerts and schedule management escalations. OpsGenie is now part of Atlassian since the late 2018 acquisition.
$0
up to 5 users
Pricing
DatadogOpsGenie
Editions & Modules
Free
$0
Up to 5 hosts
Log Management
$1.27
Per Million Log Events
Standard
$15/host
Up to 500 hosts
Infrastructure
$15.00
Per Host Per Month
APM
$31.00
Per Host Per Month
Enterprise
Custom
500+ hosts
Free
$0.00
up to 5 users
Essentials
$9.00
per user/per month
Standard
$19.00
per user/per month
Enterprise
$29.00
per user/per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
DatadogOpsGenie
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
DatadogOpsGenie
Considered Both Products
Datadog
OpsGenie
Chose OpsGenie
We also looked at PagerDuty but decided to go with OpsGenie as it had more features on the plan we needed compared to PagerDuty which would have required us to spend a lot more for what we felt were non-premium features. Everything felt like an add-on - automation for an …
Chose OpsGenie
I didn't participate in the tool selection, and I don't know other similar tools. Although I think OpsGenie suits well in all the scenarios we have, so I would choose this tools again.
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Score 8.5 out of 10

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Score 8.9 out of 10
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Enterprises
GitLab
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Score 8.9 out of 10
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Score 8.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
DatadogOpsGenie
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(22 ratings)
8.5
(17 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.9
(6 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
DatadogOpsGenie
Likelihood to Recommend
Datadog
DataDog Is well suited to all of the Infrastructure Monitoring Solutions, DB monitoring, and other Network monitoring also. It's not well suited because it cannot give perfect Infrastructure recommendations for our use case but also For example: If we are using AWS DB to monitor performance insights then Datadog is less effective there because AWS gives very niche recommendations.
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Atlassian
Well suited for cases where you just need to alert relevant team members when alerts and incidents come in and make sure that nothing falls through the cracks. Generally OpsGenie just forwards the alerts it receives and allows you to schedule team members to be on-call. It's good for that simple use case and extra helpful if you have Jira or Atlassian Open DevOps since it has nice integrations with those platforms and you can easily monitor ticket progress. If you don't have those, it would be good to check and see if they integrate with whatever you use to track tickets or bugs. The dashboarding and analytics are relatively basic so if you're looking for extensive and highly customizable analytics, this might not be the right solution.
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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
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Atlassian
  • Notifying through all the possible way like sms,mail and call.
  • Ita shows the activity log it is usefull when your paging team through the incident through that you can check who has acknowledged or not.
  • Notify the alerts to engineer as well as you can also add the description about alerts related what is it.
  • Here you can schedule for on-call engineers
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Cons
Datadog
  • We had a couple "integrations" that had some issues during setup, but Support addressed them very quickly
  • Unnecessary alerts about DataDog components...by the time I see them, they're almost always also fixed
  • I wish there was a DataDog mobile app that would have dedicated alerts (configurable per alert to override Do Not Disturb setting) instead of relying on emails notifications that could be overlooked in the midst of many incoming emails around the same time.
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Atlassian
  • OpsGenie New Jira design has made it difficult for those not familiar with that style.
  • OpsGenie could benefit from nested escalation flows for team schedules. Creating a product alert that uses and Tech Schedule as well as an Incident Manager Schedule that already exists would create less overhead and ease management.
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Usability
Datadog
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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Atlassian
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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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Atlassian
They are fully available at all times via chat, phone, or email and follow up thoroughly.
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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.
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Atlassian
We also looked at PagerDuty but decided to go with OpsGenie as it had more features on the plan we needed compared to PagerDuty which would have required us to spend a lot more for what we felt were non-premium features. Everything felt like an add-on - automation for an additional $20 a user per month seemed like a lot on top of the base plan
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Return on Investment
Datadog
  • Visibility into website issues and performance problems has improved our company communication.
  • Handling and detecting site issues faster has improved customer satisfaction and retention.
  • Configuration of the Datadog site can take a bit of time and we lost a bit of developer time during that process.
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Atlassian
  • Time savings with configuration of on call schedules and personnel. Quick and easy to make changes on short notice.
  • We have essentially eliminated the dropped/missed call complaints which used to be routine. Now customers are quickly connected to us hassle free.
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ScreenShots

Datadog Screenshots

Screenshot of Out-of-the-box and easily customizable monitoring dashboards.Screenshot of Datadog is built to give visibility across teams. You can discuss issues in-context with production data, annotate changes and notify your team, see who responded to that alert before, and remember what was done to fix it.Screenshot of Datadog seamlessly unifies traces, metrics, and logs—the three pillars of observability.Screenshot of Collect monitoring data from across your entire stack with Datadog's 400+ built-in integrations.Screenshot of Datadog's Service Map decomposes your application into all its component services and draws the observed dependencies between these services in real timeScreenshot of Centralize log data from any source.