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At a Glance
Market Segments
Small-Business (47.9% of reviews)
Mid-Market (47.1% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
$0.00 Per Month
$0 Per host, per month
Airbrake
Star Rating
(73)4.4 out of 5
Market Segments
Small-Business (47.9% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
$0.00 Per Month
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Star Rating
(689)4.4 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (47.1% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
$0 Per host, per month
Free Trial is available
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AI Generated Summary
AI-generated. Powered by real user reviews.
- G2 reviewers report that Datadog excels in providing a comprehensive view of application performance, integrating infrastructure, applications, logs, and security signals into one platform. Users appreciate the detailed log traces and the ease of searching for specific logs, which enhances their ability to quickly identify issues.
- Users say that Airbrake shines in its simplicity and ease of setup, making it a great choice for teams looking for a straightforward error monitoring solution. Reviewers highlight the real-time error notifications and the ability to access detailed stack traces, which help teams respond to issues promptly.
- According to verified reviews, Datadog's user interface is praised for its intuitiveness, allowing users to gain insights from data effortlessly. The multiple integrations available make it easy to get started, with one user noting that it was ready to use in just a few clicks.
- Reviewers mention that while Airbrake is effective for small businesses, it may not offer the same depth of features as Datadog, particularly for mid-market users. Datadog's robust performance monitoring capabilities, including performance baselines and analysis, are seen as critical for larger teams managing complex environments.
- Users highlight that Datadog's support is responsive and helpful, which is crucial for teams that rely on timely assistance. In contrast, while Airbrake also receives positive feedback for its support, the overall volume of recent reviews suggests that Datadog's support may be more consistently available to a larger user base.
- G2 reviewers indicate that both products have similar star ratings, but Datadog's significantly higher G2 Score reflects a broader satisfaction among users. This is particularly evident in the volume of recent reviews, where Datadog has a clear advantage, suggesting it is currently more favored in the market.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
Airbrake
Dev
$0.00
Per Month
Get started with Free Forever Error and Performance Monitoring - no credit card required!
- Users: 1
- Teams: 1
- Projects: 2
Datadog
Free
$0
Per host, per month
Core collection and visualization features
- Discussion Group Supported
- 1-Day Metric Retention
- Up to 5 Hosts
Free Trial
Airbrake
Free Trial is available
Datadog
Free Trial is available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
8.8
55
8.8
511
Ease of Use
8.5
55
8.2
612
Ease of Setup
8.0
17
8.3
378
Ease of Admin
8.7
15
8.3
231
Quality of Support
8.7
36
8.3
455
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
9.0
14
8.5
218
Product Direction (% positive)
7.5
47
9.0
496
Features by Category
Operations
Not enough data
7.8
6
Not enough data
8.1
6
Not enough data
7.1
8
Not enough data
8.0
5
Cost Optimization
Not enough data
7.7
8
Not enough data
7.5
6
Not enough data
7.7
5
Administration
Not enough data
8.3
6
Not enough data
8.1
7
Not enough data
7.3
5
Agentic AI - Cloud Cost Management
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Functionality
Not enough data
8.7
55
Not enough data
9.3
71
Not enough data
9.1
63
Not enough data
8.8
57
Not enough data
8.9
57
Not enough data
9.0
50
Agentic AI - Website Monitoring
Not enough data
7.3
5
Not enough data
7.3
5
Not enough data
8.3
5
Not enough data
7.3
5
Not enough data
7.3
5
Not enough data
7.3
5
Not enough data
7.3
5
Experience
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Management
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Performance
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Functionality
Not enough data
9.2
104
Not enough data
9.1
105
Not enough data
9.3
89
Not enough data
8.9
104
Not enough data
8.8
88
Not enough data
8.9
93
Agentic AI - Database Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Functionality
Not enough data
9.2
52
Not enough data
9.3
57
Not enough data
8.2
43
Not enough data
8.5
45
Monitoring - Network Monitoring
Not enough data
9.3
5
Not enough data
9.0
5
Not enough data
9.3
5
Management
Not enough data
8.7
49
Not enough data
9.0
50
Not enough data
8.8
47
Analytics - Network Monitoring
Not enough data
9.0
5
Not enough data
9.0
5
Security - Network Monitoring
Not enough data
9.0
5
Not enough data
9.0
5
Not enough data
9.0
5
Network Performance - Network Monitoring
Not enough data
9.0
5
Not enough data
9.0
5
AI Automation - Network Monitoring
Not enough data
8.3
5
Not enough data
8.7
5
Not enough data
8.7
5
Agentic AI - Network Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Monitoring
Not enough data
8.9
120
Not enough data
8.6
116
Not enough data
8.8
110
Not enough data
8.8
130
Not enough data
8.3
7
Administration
Not enough data
8.5
114
Not enough data
8.5
96
Not enough data
8.3
93
Not enough data
8.6
7
Analysis
Not enough data
8.5
112
Not enough data
8.9
121
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Agentic AI - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
Not enough data
7.9
8
Not enough data
8.8
8
Not enough data
7.3
8
Not enough data
7.5
8
Not enough data
7.9
8
Not enough data
7.9
7
AI Automation - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
Not enough data
8.1
7
Not enough data
7.4
7
Automation
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
8.1
7
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
8.5
9
Functionality
Not enough data
8.7
10
Not enough data
8.0
10
Not enough data
8.0
9
Not enough data
9.2
10
Incident Management
Not enough data
8.6
12
Not enough data
9.2
12
Not enough data
9.0
12
Bug Reporting
8.4
17
Not enough data
8.3
13
Not enough data
8.7
13
Not enough data
Bug Monitoring
8.7
21
Not enough data
8.8
23
Not enough data
8.4
19
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Bug Tracking
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Functionality
Not enough data
9.1
16
Not enough data
8.5
17
Not enough data
9.4
21
Issue Resolution
Not enough data
9.0
19
Not enough data
9.1
16
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Management
Not enough data
8.7
19
Not enough data
9.6
19
Not enough data
8.9
19
Generative AI
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - AIOps Platforms
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Visibility
Not enough data
8.8
92
Not enough data
9.0
90
Not enough data
8.8
81
Monitoring and Management
Not enough data
8.2
83
Not enough data
8.6
85
Not enough data
9.0
90
Agentic AI - Log Monitoring
Not enough data
7.3
8
Not enough data
7.1
8
Not enough data
8.1
8
Not enough data
7.3
8
Not enough data
7.9
8
Not enough data
7.3
8
Not enough data
7.5
8
Visibility
Not enough data
8.9
77
Not enough data
8.6
72
Not enough data
8.2
70
Monitoring and Management
Not enough data
8.4
70
Not enough data
7.6
65
Not enough data
8.4
67
Not enough data
9.0
71
Not enough data
8.8
66
Not enough data
8.3
71
Cloud environment support
Not enough data
8.1
62
Not enough data
8.0
59
Agentic AI - Server Monitoring
Not enough data
7.7
5
Not enough data
8.0
5
Not enough data
9.0
5
Not enough data
7.0
5
Not enough data
7.3
5
Not enough data
7.0
5
Not enough data
7.7
5
Functionality
Not enough data
8.7
47
Not enough data
8.8
48
Not enough data
9.0
52
Not enough data
7.9
42
Management
Not enough data
8.6
46
Not enough data
8.6
51
Not enough data
8.2
44
Not enough data
9.0
51
Agentic AI - Enterprise Monitoring
Not enough data
7.8
9
Not enough data
8.3
9
Not enough data
7.8
9
Not enough data
8.1
9
Not enough data
7.5
10
Not enough data
8.1
9
Not enough data
8.1
9
Data Sources
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Analytics
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Metrics
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Device Recognition
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Provisioning
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Data Preparation
Not enough data
8.6
65
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.4
63
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.0
61
|
Verified
Not enough data
7.9
62
|
Verified
Analysis
Not enough data
8.6
60
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.4
67
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.8
68
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.5
71
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.6
62
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.7
59
|
Verified
Visualization
Not enough data
8.9
75
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.7
63
|
Verified
Agentic AI - Log Analysis
Not enough data
7.8
6
Not enough data
7.8
6
Not enough data
8.9
6
Not enough data
7.8
6
Not enough data
8.1
6
Not enough data
7.5
6
Not enough data
7.8
6
Monitoring
8.5
9
8.6
113
8.2
10
8.9
106
8.8
10
8.9
118
Feature Not Available
7.3
99
7.9
8
8.4
105
Response
8.1
9
8.9
123
8.7
10
8.8
110
8.6
7
8.0
107
Agentic AI - Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Not enough data
7.4
13
Not enough data
8.1
13
Not enough data
7.9
13
Not enough data
8.1
13
Not enough data
7.8
13
Performance
Feature Not Available
8.5
118
Feature Not Available
8.3
103
Functionality
Feature Not Available
8.5
106
Feature Not Available
8.1
96
8.3
6
Feature Not Available
Feature Not Available
8.5
112
Alerts management
Not enough data
8.7
43
Not enough data
8.0
45
Not enough data
8.6
47
Monitoring
Not enough data
8.6
39
Not enough data
9.1
41
Not enough data
8.7
43
Not enough data
9.0
38
Automation
Not enough data
8.2
38
Not enough data
8.4
36
Analysis
Not enough data
8.2
41
Not enough data
8.3
44
Not enough data
9.1
43
Not enough data
8.5
42
Issue Resolution
Not enough data
8.3
37
Not enough data
7.6
39
Not enough data
8.4
35
Generative AI
Not enough data
7.5
17
Agentic AI - IT Alerting
Not enough data
7.4
7
Not enough data
7.9
7
Not enough data
8.8
7
Not enough data
7.9
7
Not enough data
8.1
6
Not enough data
7.9
7
Not enough data
8.3
7
Data Management - Observability Pipeline
Not enough data
7.8
6
Not enough data
8.0
9
Not enough data
7.4
7
Not enough data
7.5
6
Not enough data
7.0
9
Performance - Observability Pipeline
Not enough data
6.7
8
Not enough data
8.1
9
Not enough data
7.0
9
AI - Observability Pipeline
Not enough data
6.4
7
Not enough data
6.1
6
Not enough data
6.7
6
Compliance - Observability Pipeline
Not enough data
6.9
6
Not enough data
6.1
6
Agentic AI - Observability Pipeline
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Telemetry Collection & Ingestion - Observability
Not enough data
8.3
10
Not enough data
8.8
8
Agentic AI - Observability Software
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Visualization & Dashboards - Observability
Not enough data
8.7
9
Not enough data
9.0
10
Not enough data
8.8
8
Correlation & Root Cause Analysis - Observability
Not enough data
9.2
10
Not enough data
8.3
9
Not enough data
8.7
10
Scalability & Ecosystem Integration - Observability
Not enough data
9.3
9
Not enough data
8.5
8
AI Features - Observability
Not enough data
7.9
8
Not enough data
8.8
8
Not enough data
8.3
8
Response
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
7.9
47
Records
Not enough data
9.2
55
Not enough data
8.9
53
Not enough data
8.5
60
Management
Not enough data
9.3
58
Not enough data
8.4
52
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Generative AI
Not enough data
7.1
13
Not enough data
7.9
13
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)Hide 14 FeaturesShow 14 Features
Not enough data
8.8
14
Network Management
Not enough data
8.8
11
Not enough data
8.3
11
Not enough data
9.4
12
Incident Management
Not enough data
9.3
12
Not enough data
9.2
11
Not enough data
9.2
12
Security Intelligence
Not enough data
7.9
12
Not enough data
8.0
10
Not enough data
8.8
11
Not enough data
8.6
13
Agentic AI - Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
Airbrake and Datadog are categorized as Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Unique Categories
Airbrake is categorized as Bug Tracking
Datadog is categorized as Observability Pipeline, Observability Software, Enterprise Monitoring, Server Monitoring, Log Monitoring, AIOps Platforms, Network Traffic Analysis (NTA), Database Monitoring, IoT Device Management Platforms, IoT Analytics Platforms, Website Monitoring, Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring, IT Alerting, Container Monitoring, Log Analysis, Incident Response, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), API Marketplace, Network Monitoring, Cloud Cost Management, and Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
Airbrake
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Datadog
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Small-Business
(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market
(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise
(> 1000 emp.)
Reviewers' Industry
Information Technology and Services
19.2%
Computer Software
16.4%
Internet
15.1%
Food & Beverages
6.8%
Health, Wellness and Fitness
5.5%
Other
37.0%
Information Technology and Services
18.9%
Computer Software
17.5%
Financial Services
8.6%
Internet
4.2%
Computer & Network Security
3.1%
Other
47.7%
Discussions
Airbrake has no discussions with answers
What is the use of Datadog?
3 Comments
CJ
Datadog is a software platform that facilitates data sharing across various teams within an organization, thereby breaking down silos between development,...Read more
Does Datadog use AWS?
2 Comments
IG
Yes, the backbone of Datadog infrastructure is sitting within AWS.Read more
Does it preserves history of logs?
1 Comment
AN
Depends on your plan, log retention can be 7,15, 30 days etc, for long term you need to setup s3 archivingRead more
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