Datadog
Monitoring · Free · since 2010
Visit Datadog ↗ See alternatives Pricing
Datadog is a comprehensive cloud monitoring platform that unifies infrastructure metrics, application performance monitoring (APM), log management, real user monitoring, and security under one roof. It supports 750+ integrations and is the go-to choice for large engineering teams.
The free tier covers up to 5 hosts with basic metrics. Infrastructure monitoring starts at $15/host/month, with APM, logs, and other modules priced separately. Total cost scales quickly for larger deployments.
pros
- Most comprehensive monitoring platform available
- 750+ integrations covering virtually every technology
- Powerful dashboards and alerting with anomaly detection
- Unified view of infrastructure, APM, logs, and security
cons
- Pricing is complex and gets very expensive at scale
- Each module (APM, logs, RUM) billed separately
- Can be overwhelming to configure and navigate
- Vendor lock-in with proprietary query language
top Datadog alternatives
Datadog compared
Datadog vs Sentry · Datadog vs BetterStack · Datadog vs Grafana · Datadog vs New Relic · Datadog vs Uptime Robot · Datadog vs Checkly · Datadog vs Axiom · Datadog vs Cronitor
more monitoring tools
Sentry Application monitoring platform focused on error tracking, performance monitoring, and session replay. Free 
BetterStack Uptime monitoring, log management, and incident management platform with a clean, modern interface. Free 
Grafana Open-source observability platform for metrics visualization, dashboards, and alerting from any data source. Free 
New Relic Full-stack observability platform with APM, infrastructure, logs, and browser monitoring. Free 
Uptime Robot Simple uptime monitoring service that checks your websites every 5 minutes and alerts you when they go down. Free 
Checkly API and browser monitoring with Playwright tests, deployed via code. Free