Datadog vs Tableau Desktop

What users are saying about

Score 8.3 out of 10

Based on 149 reviews and ratings

Score 8.4 out of 10

Based on 1997 reviews and ratings

Feature Set Ratings

BI Standard Reporting

Datadog

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

8.1

Tableau Desktop

81%

Tableau Desktop ranks higher in 3/3 features

Pixel Perfect reports

N/A

0 Ratings

8.0

80%

136 Ratings

Customizable dashboards

N/A

0 Ratings

8.5

85%

162 Ratings

Report Formatting Templates

N/A

0 Ratings

7.8

78%

141 Ratings

Ad-hoc Reporting

Datadog

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

8.1

Tableau Desktop

81%

Tableau Desktop ranks higher in 4/4 features

Drill-down analysis

N/A

0 Ratings

8.1

81%

155 Ratings

Formatting capabilities

N/A

0 Ratings

8.1

81%

158 Ratings

Integration with R or other statistical packages

N/A

0 Ratings

7.6

76%

119 Ratings

Report sharing and collaboration

N/A

0 Ratings

8.6

86%

154 Ratings

Report Output and Scheduling

Datadog

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

8.2

Tableau Desktop

82%

Tableau Desktop ranks higher in 5/5 features

Publish to Web

N/A

0 Ratings

8.7

87%

145 Ratings

Publish to PDF

N/A

0 Ratings

8.5

85%

145 Ratings

Report Versioning

N/A

0 Ratings

8.1

81%

111 Ratings

Report Delivery Scheduling

N/A

0 Ratings

8.2

82%

118 Ratings

Delivery to Remote Servers

N/A

0 Ratings

7.8

78%

69 Ratings

Data Discovery and Visualization

Datadog

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

8.5

Tableau Desktop

85%

Tableau Desktop ranks higher in 3/3 features

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

N/A

0 Ratings

8.7

87%

150 Ratings

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

N/A

0 Ratings

8.8

88%

145 Ratings

Predictive Analytics

N/A

0 Ratings

7.9

79%

122 Ratings

Access Control and Security

Datadog

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

8.5

Tableau Desktop

85%

Tableau Desktop ranks higher in 4/4 features

Multi-User Support (named login)

N/A

0 Ratings

8.5

85%

135 Ratings

Role-Based Security Model

N/A

0 Ratings

8.3

83%

114 Ratings

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

N/A

0 Ratings

8.7

87%

125 Ratings

Single Sign-On (SSO)

N/A

0 Ratings

8.5

85%

73 Ratings

Mobile Capabilities

Datadog

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

7.9

Tableau Desktop

79%

Tableau Desktop ranks higher in 3/3 features

Responsive Design for Web Access

N/A

0 Ratings

7.9

79%

120 Ratings

Mobile Application

N/A

0 Ratings

7.9

79%

178 Ratings

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

N/A

0 Ratings

8.0

80%

112 Ratings

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

Datadog

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

7.8

Tableau Desktop

78%

Tableau Desktop ranks higher in 6/6 features

REST API

N/A

0 Ratings

7.8

78%

54 Ratings

Javascript API

N/A

0 Ratings

7.9

79%

48 Ratings

iFrames

N/A

0 Ratings

7.7

77%

47 Ratings

Java API

N/A

0 Ratings

7.3

73%

44 Ratings

Themeable User Interface (UI)

N/A

0 Ratings

7.8

78%

49 Ratings

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

N/A

0 Ratings

8.1

81%

43 Ratings

Attribute Ratings

Datadog is rated higher in 3 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Usability, Support Rating

Datadog

90%

19 Ratings

8.6

Tableau Desktop

86%

190 Ratings

Datadog

N/A

0 Ratings

8.9

Tableau Desktop

89%

39 Ratings

Datadog

100%

1 Rating

8.8

Tableau Desktop

88%

65 Ratings

Datadog

N/A

0 Ratings

8.0

Tableau Desktop

80%

20 Ratings

Datadog

N/A

0 Ratings

6.1

Tableau Desktop

61%

18 Ratings

Datadog

88%

10 Ratings

8.0

Tableau Desktop

80%

73 Ratings

Datadog

N/A

0 Ratings

9.4

Tableau Desktop

94%

4 Ratings

Datadog

N/A

0 Ratings

8.0

Tableau Desktop

80%

4 Ratings

Datadog

N/A

0 Ratings

8.0

Tableau Desktop

80%

68 Ratings

Datadog

N/A

0 Ratings

7.0

Tableau Desktop

70%

3 Ratings

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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An excellent tool for data visualization, it presents information in an appealing visual format—an exceptional platform for storing and analyzing data in any size organization.
Through interactive parameters, it enables real-time interaction with the user and is easy to learn and get support from the community.

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Afia Tamanna

Information Technology Business Consultant

Alfa NET+Information Technology & Services, 11-50 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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Formatting the data to work correctly in graphical presentations can be time consuming
Daily data extracts can run slowly depending on how much data is required and the source of the data
The desktop version is required for advanced functionality, editing on [the] Tableau server allows only limited features

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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees

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Pricing Details

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

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

$70 per month

Tableau Desktop Editions & Modules

Edition

Tableau Creator	$70.00¹

Per User / Per Month

Additional Pricing Details

All pricing plans are billed annually.

Likelihood to Renew

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Tableau Desktop 8.9

Based on 39 answers

Our use of Tableau Desktop is still fairly low, and will continue over time. The only real concern is around cost of the licenses, and I have mentioned this to Tableau and fully expect the development of more sensible models for our industry. This will remove any impediment to expansion of our use.

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Manager in Information Technology

Mining & Metals Company, 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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Tableau Desktop 8.8

Based on 65 answers

It is a good tool for creating beautiful visualizations and sharing dashboards. It does offer a variety of features and also making interactive dashboards. It is easy to learn and create custom visualizations really fast. It does offer good API connectivity to gather data. But it lacks the structure for data cleaning and processing.

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Verified User

Analyst in Marketing

Apparel & Fashion Company, 1-10 employees

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Reliability and Availability

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Tableau Desktop 8.0

Based on 20 answers

When used as a stand-alone tool, Tableau Desktop has unlimited uptime, which is always nice. When used in conjunction with Tableau Server, this tool has as much uptime as your server admins are willing to give it. All in all, I've never had an issue with Tableau's availability.

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Brad Llewellyn

Associate Data Analytics Consultant

MarinerInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Performance

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Tableau Desktop 6.1

Based on 18 answers

Tableau Desktop's performance is solid. You can really dig into a large dataset in the form of a spreadsheet, and it exhibits similarly good performance when accessing a moderately sized Oracle database. I noticed that with Tableau Desktop 9.3, the performance using a spreadsheet started to slow around 75K rows by about 60 columns. This was easily remedied by creating an extract and pushing it to Tableau Server, where performance went to lightning fast

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Professional in Research & Development

Biotechnology Company, 201-500 employees

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Support Rating

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.

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Verified User

Director in Information Technology

Consumer Goods Company, 51-200 employees

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Tableau Desktop 8.0

Based on 73 answers

The Tableau Desktop's support team has been very helpful and tend to response very quickly. After all you have paid very premium price for the product and it goes to the services. This makes using the tool much easier for these who doesn't have such experience to get help quickly.

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Verified User

Analyst in Professional Services

Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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In-Person Training

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Tableau Desktop 9.4

Based on 4 answers

It is admittedly hard to train a group of people with disparate levels of ability coming in, but the software is so easy to use that this is not a huge problem; anyone who can follow simple instructions can catch up pretty quickly.

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Jon Boeckenstedt

Associate Vice President

DePaul University, Division of Enrollment Management and MarketingHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees

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Online Training

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Tableau Desktop 8.0

Based on 4 answers

The training for new users are quite good because it covers topic wise training and the best part was that it also had video tutorials which are very helpful

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Chandra Bhanu Pratap Singh

BI Developer

CognizantInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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Implementation Rating

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Tableau Desktop 8.0

Based on 68 answers

Again, training is the key and the company provides a lot of example videos that will help users discover use cases that will greatly assist their creation of original visualizations. As with any new software tool, productivity will decline for a period. In the case of Tableau, the decline period is short and the later gains are well worth it.

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David Fickes

Decision Sciences - Modeling, Simulation & Analysis

San Francisco State UniversityHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

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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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Tableau hands-down wins based upon functionality, interoperability with a wide variety of enterprise-class data connections, end-user support, and quality of visualizations. Tableau Desktop offers a substantially more robust, refined, and mature product. It became quickly apparent that there was no real comparison. For applications that need fast, accurate analytics using a wide portfolio of underlying data sources, Tableau Desktop is the clear winner.

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Jason Guinn

Chief Financial Officer

Clinical Management Concepts, Inc.Pharmaceuticals, 51-200 employees

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Scalability

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Tableau Desktop 7.0

Based on 3 answers

Tableau Desktop's scaleability is really limited to the scale of your back-end data systems. If you want to pull down an extract and work quickly in-memory, in my application it scaled to a few tens of millions of rows using the in-memory engine. But it's really only limited by your back-end data store if you have or are willing to invest in an optimized SQL store or purpose-built query engine like Veritca or Netezza or something similar.

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C-Level Executive in Finance and Accounting

Internet 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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Tableau was acquired years ago, and has provided good value with the content created.
Ongoing maintenance costs for the platform, both to maintain desktop and server licensing has made the continuing value questionable when compared to other offerings in the marketplace.
Users have largely been satisfied with the content, but not with the overall performance. This is due to a combination of factors including the performance of the Tableau engines as well as development deficiencies.

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John Stuchly

Data developer

HKS, Inc.Architecture & Planning, 1001-5000 employees

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Screenshots

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Datadog

Tableau Desktop

Datadog

Tableau Desktop

Pixel Perfect reports

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

Datadog

Tableau Desktop

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Report sharing and collaboration

Datadog

Tableau Desktop

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

Delivery to Remote Servers

Datadog

Tableau Desktop

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Predictive Analytics

Datadog

Tableau Desktop

Multi-User Support (named login)

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Datadog

Tableau Desktop

Responsive Design for Web Access

Mobile Application

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

Datadog

Tableau Desktop

REST API

Javascript API

iFrames

Java API

Themeable User Interface (UI)

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

Datadog

Tableau Desktop

Datadog

Tableau Desktop

Datadog

Tableau Desktop

Datadog

Tableau Desktop

Datadog

Tableau Desktop

Datadog

Tableau Desktop

Datadog

Tableau Desktop

Datadog

Tableau Desktop

Datadog

Tableau Desktop

Datadog

Tableau Desktop

Likelihood to Recommend

Datadog

Tableau Desktop

Pros

Datadog

Tableau Desktop

Cons

Datadog

Tableau Desktop

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price