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Datadog vs Grafana

Datadog and Grafana are both listed under Observability in the DevPages directory. This page puts the details we hold for each of them side by side.

It does not score them and does not pick a winner. Fields the catalog has no value for say “Not recorded” rather than being filled in with a guess.

Datadog vs Grafana field by field

Datadog, Grafana compared field by field. Values are taken from the DevPages catalog; fields we hold no value for read “Not recorded”.
Datadog
Grafana
CategoryObservabilityObservability
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Open sourceNot recordedYes
GitHub starsNot tracked77.6K
Key features
  • Infrastructure and application monitoring
  • Real-time metrics and dashboards
  • Distributed tracing and APM
  • Log management and analysis
  • Synthetic monitoring and testing
  • Network performance monitoring
  • Security monitoring and compliance
  • Machine learning-powered insights
  • Rich visualization and dashboard creation
  • Support for multiple data sources
  • Advanced alerting and notification system
  • Templating and variables
  • User and team management
  • Plugin ecosystem and extensibility
  • Annotation and event correlation
  • Mobile-friendly responsive design
Use cases
  • Full-stack application monitoring
  • Infrastructure performance tracking
  • DevOps pipeline monitoring
  • Security and compliance monitoring
  • Business metrics and KPI tracking
  • Incident response and debugging
  • Capacity planning and optimization
  • Multi-cloud environment monitoring
  • Infrastructure and application monitoring
  • Business intelligence dashboards
  • IoT and sensor data visualization
  • DevOps metrics and KPIs
  • Real-time analytics
  • Log analysis and correlation
  • Performance monitoring
  • Custom metrics visualization
Integrations
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Jenkins
  • PagerDuty
  • Prometheus
  • InfluxDB
  • Elasticsearch
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • AWS CloudWatch
Tags
  • monitoring
  • observability
  • metrics
  • logging
  • tracing
  • apm
  • visualization
  • dashboards
  • metrics
  • monitoring
  • alerting
  • analytics
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What each one is

Datadog

Comprehensive monitoring and analytics platform

Datadog is a monitoring and analytics platform for cloud-scale applications. It provides full-stack observability by combining metrics, traces, and logs in a unified platform. Datadog helps teams monitor infrastructure, applications, and logs in real-time with powerful dashboards and alerting capabilities.

Full Datadog listing

Grafana

Open-source analytics and interactive visualization platform

Grafana is the open-source analytics and monitoring solution for every database. It allows you to query, visualize, alert on, and understand your metrics no matter where they are stored. Create, explore, and share dashboards with your team and foster a data-driven culture.

Full Grafana listing

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