Datadog vs Sentry

Datadog and Sentry 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, Sentry compared field by field. Values are taken from the DevPages catalog; fields we hold no value for read “Not recorded”.
	Datadog	Sentry
Category	Observability	Observability
Pricing model	Freemium	Freemium
Open source	Not recorded	Yes
GitHub stars	Not tracked	45.7K
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	Real-time error tracking and alerting Performance monitoring and profiling Release health and deployment tracking Source map and stack trace analysis Custom dashboards and metrics Integration with development workflows Team collaboration and issue assignment Mobile and desktop crash reporting
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 error monitoring Performance optimization Release and deployment tracking Developer productivity improvement Customer experience monitoring Bug prioritization and triage Code quality improvement Post-deployment monitoring
Integrations	AWS Azure GCP Kubernetes Docker Jenkins PagerDuty	React Vue Angular Node.js Python Java GitHub Slack
Tags	monitoring observability metrics logging tracing apm	error-tracking performance-monitoring crash-reporting debugging real-time
Links	Website (opens in a new tab) Docs (opens in a new tab)	Website (opens in a new tab) GitHub (opens in a new tab) Docs (opens in a new tab)

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

Sentry

Application monitoring and error tracking platform

Sentry is an error tracking and performance monitoring platform that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. It provides full visibility into your code's health, with rich context and actionable insights to help you identify and resolve issues quickly.

Full Sentry listing

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