Datadog alternatives
Every error tracking and observability provider this site tracks, ordered by iScore — the same peers Datadog's own score is measured against. The line under each name is where its sourced facts differ from Datadog's; where a full comparison exists, the row links to it.
- Grafana Cloudvs DatadogKind of free offer: Free tier vs Free trial
- Sentryvs DatadogKind of free offer: Free tier vs Free trial
- Axiomvs DatadogKind of free offer: Always free vs Free trial
- GlitchTipvs DatadogKind of free offer: Free tier vs Free trial
- Better Stackvs DatadogKind of free offer: Free tier vs Free trial
- Elastic Cloudvs DatadogEntry paid plan: Elastic Cloud Hosted Standard, cheapest of four subscription tiers: as low as $99 per mon…
- SigNozvs DatadogFree tier: No vs Yes
- OpenObservevs DatadogEntry paid plan: No minimum: Cloud Professional is pay-as-you-go from $0.50 per GB ingested plus $0.01 per…
Where Datadog stands against these 8
Datadog's own sourced figures, placed among the alternatives above that document the same thing in the same unit. A rank here is one criterion, not a verdict; the iScore above weighs all of them.
- Free tier
- Yes. 5 of the 8 alternatives that document it have one: Axiom, Better Stack, GlitchTip, Grafana Cloud, Sentry.
- Regions
- Nine sites: US1, US3, US5, EU1 (Germany), US1-FED, US2-FED, AP1 (Japan), AP2 (Australia) and UK1; each site…3rd highest of the 6 that document it. Highest: Elastic Cloud — Hosted: 60 regions across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud (also Alibaba Cloud and FedRAMP).
- Events included
- None included3rd highest of the 3 that document it. Highest: GlitchTip — 100,000 events a month on the cheapest paid plan; 1,000 on the free hosted plan.
- Retention window
- Chosen per index and priced with it: 3, 7, 15 or 30 days, or greater than 30 by arrangementJoint 4th highest of the 5 that document it. Highest: Axiom — 30 days on the free Personal plan; configurable on Cloud rather than fixed.
- Ingest price per GB
- $0.10 per ingested or scanned GB per month for Log Management, billed annually — the same rate on demand2nd cheapest of the 4 that document it. Cheapest: Grafana Cloud — From $0.050 per GB processed, falling to $0.046 above 10,000 GB and $0.044 above 25,000 with automatic volume…
A rank whose 80% interval overlaps its neighbour's is an ordering, not a finding; the intervals are on each provider's page and in /scores.json.