Dynatrace vs Datadog

$0 Free

Core collection and visualization features including standard events and metrics, out-of-the-box dashboards, 800+ integrations, host and container maps, enterprise-grade security, unlimited user accounts, 1-to-1 collaboration on CoScreen, full-resolution data retention, 1-day metric retention and support for up to 5 hosts.

$15 per host, per month Pro

Centralize your monitoring of systems, services, and serverless functions. Includes standard events and metrics, out-of-the-box dashboards, 800+ integrations, host and container maps, enterprise-grade security, unlimited user accounts, 1-to-1 collaboration on CoScreen, full-resolution data retention, alerts, container monitoring, custom metrics, custom events, single sign-on with SAML, outlier detection, and 15-month metric retention.

$23 per host, per month Enterprise

Advanced features and administrative controls. Includes standard events and metrics, out-of-the-box dashboards, 800+ integrations, host and container maps, enterprise-grade security, unlimited user accounts, 1-to-1 collaboration on CoScreen, full-resolution data retention, alerts, container monitoring, custom metrics, custom events, single sign-on with SAML, outlier detection, Watchdog: Automated insights, correlations, anomaly detection, forecast monitoring, Live Processes, and 15-month metric retention.

$22 per host, per month DevSecOps Pro

Secure your cloud resources and adhere to industry standards. Includes all features in Infrastructure Pro and CSM Pro: standard events and metrics, out-of-the-box dashboards, 800+ integrations, host and container maps, enterprise-grade security, unlimited user accounts, 1-to-1 collaboration on CoScreen, full-resolution data retention, alerts, container monitoring, custom metrics, custom events, single sign-on with SAML, outlier detection, Watchdog: Automated insights, correlations, anomaly detection, forecast monitoring, Live Processes, cloud security posture management (CSPM), Kubernetes security posture management (KSPM), built-in mapping of your resources to compliance frameworks to help with audits, vulnerability management (VM) for containers & hosts, cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM), comprehensive inventory of cloud resources & linked risks, and case management.

$34 per host, per month DevSecOps Enterprise

Advanced risk and threat detection capabilities. Includes all features in Infrastructure Enterprise and CSM Enterprise: standard events and metrics, out-of-the-box dashboards, 800+ integrations, host and container maps, enterprise-grade security, unlimited user accounts, 1-to-1 collaboration on CoScreen, full-resolution data retention, alerts, container monitoring, custom metrics, custom events, single sign-on with SAML, outlier detection, Watchdog: Automated insights, correlations, anomaly detection, forecast monitoring, Live Processes, file integrity monitoring, cloud workload security (CWS) for Linux, Windows Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS Fargate ECS/EKS, and increased container allotment (20 containers allotted per host license).

$31 per host, per month APM

Resolve issues faster with end-to-end distributed traces and service health metrics, automatic service discovery and dependency mapping (Universal Service Monitoring), 15-minute live trace search & analytics, 15-day historical search & analytics, RED metrics based on 100% of traffic with 15-month retention, and the ability to correlate traces with metrics, logs, processes, network data, and more.

$35 per host, per month APM Pro

Track and improve the performance of your streaming data pipelines end to end. Includes everything in APM, plus Data Streams Monitoring: automatic dependency mapping of all queues, consumers, and producers, end-to-end pipeline latency and consumer lag metrics, and faulty queue detection.

$40 per host, per month APM Enterprise

Optimize code performance in production with minimal overhead. Includes everything in APM Pro, plus Continuous Profiler: code-level tracing including wall, lock, CPU, and I/O time, CPU and memory code profiles for resource and cost optimization, code performance comparisons across versions, and actionable insights with automatic code analysis.

$36 per host, per month APM DevSecOps

Reduce security risk with OSS vulnerability detection in production. Includes everything in APM, plus Software Composition Analysis (SCA): identify vulnerabilities in third party libraries, prioritize vulnerabilities based on exposure and CVSS, and actionable remediation guidance with service ownership insights.

$40 per host, per month APM DevSecOps Pro

Reduce security risk with OSS vulnerability detection in production. Includes everything in APM Pro, plus Software Composition Analysis (SCA): identify vulnerabilities in third party libraries, prioritize vulnerabilities based on exposure and CVSS, and actionable remediation guidance with service ownership insights.

$45 per host, per month APM DevSecOps Enterprise

Reduce security risk with OSS vulnerability detection in production. Includes everything in APM Enterprise, plus Software Composition Analysis (SCA): identify vulnerabilities in third party libraries, prioritize vulnerabilities based on exposure and CVSS, and actionable remediation guidance with service ownership insights.

$0.10 per ingested or scanned GB, per month Standard

Ingest, process, enrich, live tail, and archive all your logs, out-of-the-box parsing for 200+ log sources, enrich and tag your logs for RBAC, cost control and usage allocation, generate log-based metrics for long term analysis, self-hosted archives, with the option to ad-hoc rehydrate back to Datadog, and dynamic routing to desired retention tier options.

$1.70 per million log events, per month Standard Indexing

For real-time exploration, alerting, and dashboards with mission-critical logs, prioritize logs for critical investigations, build log alerts with Log Monitors, detect log anomalies proactively with Watchdog Insights. Best suited for frequently accessed logs i.e. infrastructure, application, operational logs.

$0.10 per ingested or scanned GB, per month Flex Starter

Ingest, process, enrich, live tail, and archive all your logs, out-of-the-box parsing for 200+ log sources, enrich and tag your logs for RBAC, cost control and usage allocation, generate log-based metrics for long term analysis, self-hosted archives, with the option to ad-hoc rehydrate back to Datadog, and dynamic routing to desired retention tier options.

$0.60 per million events stored, per month Flex Logs Starter

For historical investigations and long-term retention, retention options of 6 months, 12 months, and 15 months, bundled Starter Compute for log volumes below 2B per month (10B total stored), easily search for logs stored in both Standard and Flex Tier without the need to rehydrate. Best suited for infrequently accessed logs that need to be retained for longer periods.

$0.05 per million events stored, per month Flex Storage

For historical investigations or security, audit, and compliance use cases, flexible long-term retention up to 15 months without the need to rehydrate, increased ROI on high-volume logs, ability to correlate with metrics and traces for deeper analysis. Best suited for infrequently accessed logs.

$0.05 per instance-hour, per month Flex Compute

Multiple preconfigured compute options to suit your search and analytics workloads, easily search for logs stored in both Standard and Flex Tier, Datadog-managed compute infrastructure, ability to scale up or down based on your query use cases, customize compute choices based on business priority and environment i.e. staging, production.

$0.25 per GB outbound, per destination, per month Log Forwarding to Custom Destinations

Centralize your log processing, enrichment and routing to multiple destinations, forward your logs in real-time to any destination in just a few clicks, collect, transform, and route logs to multiple destinations without the need to index, low-latency, cloud scale throughput, and RBAC-enabled.

$1.50 per 1,000 sessions, per month RUM

Optimize web applications and apps on iOS, Android and other platforms with OOTB performance metrics and alerts, get visibility into code bugs and crashes using Error Tracking & Crash Reporting, troubleshoot high latency and app freezes using Resources and Long Tasks, automatic and custom tracking of page views and user actions inside user sessions, understand and optimize key user flows using funnel analysis and frustration signals.

$1.80 per 1,000 sessions, per month RUM & Session Replay

Everything in RUM, plus the ability to view user problems firsthand by watching video-like replays, exclude all user inputs by default using privacy options, analyze bugs as they occur and understand their impact on performance using DevTools, and visualize user behavior through click interactions on Heatmaps.

$20 per committer, per month Test Optimization

Detect tests that fail or slow down your CI pipelines, catch and prevent flaky tests from being merged, lower CI costs through improved testing efficiency, improve testing quality and developer productivity.

$9 per Infrastructure host, per month Universal Service Monitoring

Automatically discover all 1st and 3rd party services and their dependencies, monitor real-time performance metrics of every service in one place, and standardize monitoring best practices across all teams.

$10 per host, per month Software Composition Analysis (SCA)

Identify vulnerabilities in open-source libraries, prioritize vulnerabilities based on CVSS and context (exposure, threat activity, exploitability), and accelerate remediation with Jira integrations and service ownership insights.

$31 per host, per month Threat Management

Detect OWASP attacks in real-time, protect web application by blocking suspicious requests or bad actors, and investigate with runtime execution context and attack flow.

$0.30 per scanned GB, per month Sensitive Data Scanner

Discover, classify, and redact your sensitive data in real time at any scale. Offers out-of-the-box and customizable detection rules, and sensitive data detection across all ingested data, regardless of source.

$30 per seat, per month Incident Management

Declare incidents directly from observability signals within Datadog, embed real-time telemetry data into incident timelines and postmortems, manage and resolve incidents directly in Slack or MS Teams, instantly create AI-generated postmortems, calculate key incident metrics through OOTB dashboards.

$5 per host, per month Cloud Network Monitoring

Understand network traffic patterns and search with tags, built for hybrid multi-cloud and on-premises environments, correlate applications, infrastructure, and networks faster, and focused remediations with intelligent insights and alerting.

$7 per device, per month Network Device Monitoring

Monitor the health and performance of on-premise network devices, out-of-the-box metrics collected from switches, routers, firewalls and more, visualize interface bandwidth and utilization, disk, fan, and other hardware health, and comprehensive and customizable alerts.

$0.65 per million records, per month NDM Netflow Monitoring

Monitor traffic trends and bandwidth usage for NetFlow-enabled devices, identifying top talkers, top listeners, and top protocols, pivot your view by filtering NetFlow records to fields such as interface, device, and application, and visualize your NetFlow data over time with our OOTB dashboard.

$5 per 10K test runs, per month API Testing

Proactively monitor site availability, monitor uptime SLAs and SLOs, globally managed locations, and sophisticated alerting capabilities.

$12 per thousand test runs, per month Browser Testing

Easily monitor critical user journeys, record tests without code, intelligent, self-maintaining tests, and ability to view screenshots and front-end errors for every step.

$50 per hundred test runs, per month Mobile App Testing

Proactively monitor your key business flows using real devices, record tests without code, run tests on real Android and iOS devices, intelligent, self-maintaining tasks, and ability to view screenshots and front-end errors for every step.

$79 per additional parallelization, per month Continuous Testing

Increase the speed of your test runs in the CI, run multiple tests at the same time across your test environments to expedite release cycles and reduce test durations, analyze tests across your pipelines in the Synthetic Monitoring & Continuous Testing Explorer and search using facets on test durations, commit author, pipeline, and more.

$10 per host, per month Software Composition Analysis (SCA)

Identify vulnerabilities in open-source libraries in application services, prioritize vulnerabilities based on active risk posed in production, and accelerate remediation with Jira integrations and service ownership insights.

$79 per additional parallelization, per month Continuous Testing

Increase the speed of your test runs in the CI, run multiple tests at the same time across your test environments to expedite release cycles and reduce test durations, analyze tests across your pipelines in the Synthetic Monitoring & Continuous Testing Explorer and search using facets on test durations, commit author, pipeline, and more.

2% of monthly spend Audit Trail

Get full visibility into user access and platform changes across all services, empowering DevOps and compliance teams with context-rich insights.

$5 per active function, per month Serverless Workload Monitoring

Centralized monitoring of serverless apps, detect issues with real-time serverless metrics, identify increases in cold starts or cold start duration, search for functions with custom serverless tags, and correlate metrics with recent deployments.

$5 per active step function, per month Serverless Workload Monitoring

Add deeper visibility into your active functions, detect issues in your AWS Step Functions in real time, identify bottlenecks and optimizations in individual states within your step function, and correlate metrics with logs, error tracking, and deployment tracking to troubleshoot faster.

$3 per active application instance, per month Serverless Workload Monitoring

Centralized monitoring of Azure Container Apps, detect issues with real-time OOTB and custom metrics, identify increases in cold starts or shutdowns, search for services with custom tags, correlate metrics with audit logs from serverless resources, find bottlenecks or errors for individual requests, trace functions, APIs and queues all in one trace, enrich traces with request and response payloads, and visualize requests with out-of-the-box service map.

$3 per active application instance, per month Serverless Workload Monitoring

Centralized monitoring of Google Cloud Run, detect issues with real-time OOTB and custom metrics, identify increases in cold starts or shutdowns, search for services with custom tags, correlate metrics with audit logs from serverless resources, find bottlenecks or errors for individual requests, trace functions, APIs and queues all in one trace, enrich traces with request and response payloads, and visualize requests with out-of-the-box service map.

$10 per million state transitions, per month Serverless APM

Tracing for your workflows, visualize the path of your executions to identify exactly where to begin troubleshooting issues, identify bottlenecks and optimizations in individual states within your step function with execution-level metrics and monitors, and see input and output payloads on each state transition to reproduce bugs easily.

$10 per million traced invocations, per month Serverless APM

Add deeper visibility into your active functions, find bottlenecks or errors for individual invocations, trace functions, APIs and queues all in one trace, enrich traces with request and response payloads, and visualize requests with out-of-the-box service map.

$10 per million traced invocations, per month Serverless Application Security

Comprehensive threat detection, detect attackers in real time, investigate attacks with distributed tracing and runtime context, build custom detection rules to detect business logic attacks, and integrate with existing security stack to respond to attacks.

$10 per 100 Workflow Executions, per month Workflow Automation

Build and trigger automated workflows directly from your observability data, get started fast with 40+ pre-built blueprints across DevOps and Security use cases, and stay in control of your automation with humans in the loop.

$15 per host per month Data Streams Monitoring

Track and improve the performance of your streaming data pipelines from end to end, detect slowdowns anywhere in your event-driven applications, localize and resolve pipeline bottlenecks and failures, and remediate floods of backed-up messages.

$20 per host, per month Code Security (IAST)

Detect real vulnerabilities in your production application’s code and fix them faster with observability context, detect vulnerabilities in 1st-party code running in production, eliminate false positives with 100% accuracy in OWASP Benchmark, prioritize vulnerabilities based on threat activity posed in production, fix vulnerabilities faster with source code integration and guided remediation steps, and streamline troubleshooting workflows between DevOps and Security teams.

$5 per million events analyzed, per month Cloud SIEM

More than 350, and growing, out-of-the-box detection rules maintained by Datadog’s detection engineering experts, logs are analyzed in real time for detection within seconds, threat hunt and investigate across 15-months of security data using our easy-to-use log search tools, reduce time to insight in complex cloud environments using our graph-based, entity-focused investigation tools, accelerate mean time to response with automation workflows.

$70 per database host, per month Database Monitoring

Track normalized query performance trends using database-generated metrics, correlate query performance with database infrastructure metrics, access all of your database insights, database hosts, clusters, and applications, and extract valuable data without compromising database security.

$0.05 per host, per hour Data Jobs Monitoring

Observe, troubleshoot, and cost-optimize your Spark and Databricks jobs across data pipelines, detect problematic Spark and Databricks jobs anywhere in your data pipelines, remediate failed and long-running-jobs faster, and optimize overprovisioned compute resources to reduce costs.

$0.25 per 1k error events, per month Error Tracking

Group and triage error events across web, mobile, and backend applications, automatically group similar errors into issues representing bugs, prioritize the most important issues based on count, recency, or impact, resolve errors faster with custom monitors and one-click pivot into Git and IDEs, and investigate anomalistic tags surfaced by Watchdog Insights.

$0.10 per ingested GB per month Observability Pipelines

Aggregate, process, and route log data in your own environment at scale.

$7.50 per host, per month Cloud Cost Management

Take control of your cloud costs, break down and allocate your costs at a granular level, down to an individual resource, quickly identify top cost changes and take action on them, and empower your Engineering teams to include costs on their application dashboards.