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Datadog vs New Relic

Datadog and New Relic 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 New Relic field by field

Datadog, New Relic compared field by field. Values are taken from the DevPages catalog; fields we hold no value for read “Not recorded”.
CategoryObservabilityObservability
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
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
  • Application performance monitoring (APM)
  • Infrastructure monitoring and insights
  • Browser and mobile monitoring
  • Distributed tracing across services
  • Custom dashboards and visualizations
  • AI-powered anomaly detection
  • Alert management and notifications
  • Query builder and data exploration
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
  • Application performance optimization
  • Infrastructure health monitoring
  • User experience tracking
  • Microservices observability
  • DevOps and SRE practices
  • Incident response and troubleshooting
  • Capacity planning and scaling
  • Business intelligence and reporting
Integrations
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Jenkins
  • PagerDuty
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Slack
  • PagerDuty
Tags
  • monitoring
  • observability
  • metrics
  • logging
  • tracing
  • apm
  • apm
  • monitoring
  • observability
  • performance
  • analytics
  • alerts
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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

New Relic

Observability platform for monitoring and analyzing applications

New Relic is a comprehensive observability platform that helps engineers monitor, debug, and improve their entire technology stack. It provides real-time insights into application performance, infrastructure health, and user experience with AI-powered analytics and automated anomaly detection.

Full New Relic listing

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