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At a Glance
Market Segments
Enterprise (65.0% of reviews)
Mid-Market (47.0% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
$0 Per host, per month
Chronosphere
Star Rating
(20)4.5 out of 5
Market Segments
Enterprise (65.0% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Not enough data
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
Learn more about ChronosphereDatadog
Star Rating
(685)4.4 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (47.0% 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.
- Users report that Datadog excels in its alerting capabilities, with a score of 9.2, while Chronosphere also performs well but slightly lower at 9.1. Reviewers mention that Datadog's multi-channel alerting feature is particularly effective for real-time notifications.
- Reviewers mention that Chronosphere shines in its cloud observability, scoring 9.0 compared to Datadog's 8.5. Users on G2 appreciate Chronosphere's ability to provide comprehensive insights into cloud environments, making it a preferred choice for enterprise-level deployments.
- Users say that Datadog's ease of setup is rated at 8.4, which is slightly lower than Chronosphere's 8.6. Reviewers mention that Datadog's setup process can be more complex, especially for users new to monitoring tools.
- G2 users highlight that Chronosphere offers superior quality of support, scoring 9.5 compared to Datadog's 8.3. Reviewers mention that Chronosphere's support team is highly responsive and knowledgeable, which is crucial for enterprises needing quick resolutions.
- Reviewers mention that Datadog's performance monitoring features, particularly its logging capabilities, score 9.3, which is higher than Chronosphere's 8.7. Users report that Datadog's logging functionality is robust and integrates well with other monitoring tools.
- Users on G2 report that Chronosphere's proactive identification and resolution guidance features are rated highly, with scores of 9.2 and 8.6 respectively, compared to Datadog's 9.1 and 8.4. Reviewers mention that these features help in minimizing downtime and improving overall system reliability.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
Chronosphere
No pricing availableDatadog
Free
$0
Per host, per month
Core collection and visualization features
- Discussion Group Supported
- 1-Day Metric Retention
- Up to 5 Hosts
Free Trial
Chronosphere
No trial information availableDatadog
Free Trial is available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
9.0
15
8.8
508
Ease of Use
8.1
15
8.2
609
Ease of Setup
8.6
6
8.3
375
Ease of Admin
9.5
7
8.3
229
Quality of Support
9.5
14
8.3
453
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
9.8
7
8.5
216
Product Direction (% positive)
10.0
14
9.0
493
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
54
Not enough data
9.3
71
Not enough data
9.1
62
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
9.0
10
8.9
119
9.0
7
8.6
115
9.4
8
8.8
110
9.2
8
8.7
129
Not enough data
8.3
7
Administration
Feature Not Available
8.5
114
Feature Not Available
8.5
95
Feature Not Available
8.3
93
Not enough data
8.6
7
Analysis
Feature Not Available
8.5
112
9.0
8
8.9
120
Feature Not Available
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
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
8.9
89
Not enough data
8.9
88
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
89
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
9.4
6
8.9
77
9.0
7
8.6
71
8.3
6
8.2
69
Monitoring and Management
Not enough data
8.4
70
Feature Not Available
7.6
65
9.7
5
8.4
67
8.9
6
9.0
70
9.3
7
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
Feature Not Available
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
64
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.4
63
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.0
61
|
Verified
Not enough data
7.9
61
|
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
61
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.7
59
|
Verified
Visualization
Not enough data
8.9
74
|
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
7.7
5
8.6
113
8.3
5
8.9
106
8.7
5
8.9
118
Feature Not Available
7.3
99
Feature Not Available
8.4
105
Response
9.0
5
8.9
122
9.0
5
8.8
109
Not enough data
8.0
106
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
Not enough data
8.3
103
Functionality
Feature Not Available
8.5
105
Feature Not Available
8.1
96
Feature Not Available
Feature Not Available
9.0
5
8.5
111
Alerts management
Not enough data
8.7
43
Not enough data
8.0
45
9.3
5
8.6
47
Monitoring
9.7
5
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
9.3
5
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
8.9
9
Not enough data
8.8
8
Correlation & Root Cause Analysis - Observability
Not enough data
9.1
9
Not enough data
8.1
8
Not enough data
8.5
9
Scalability & Ecosystem Integration - Observability
Not enough data
9.2
8
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
Development
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Database
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Infrastructure
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
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
9.2
57
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
Chronosphere and Datadog are categorized as Enterprise Monitoring, Server Monitoring, Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring, Container Monitoring, Application Performance Monitoring (APM), and Observability Software
Unique Categories
Chronosphere is categorized as Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Datadog is categorized as Observability Pipeline, Log Monitoring, AIOps Platforms, Network Traffic Analysis (NTA), Database Monitoring, IoT Device Management Platforms, IoT Analytics Platforms, Website Monitoring, IT Alerting, 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
Chronosphere
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
Financial Services
30.0%
Computer Software
20.0%
Information Technology and Services
15.0%
Real Estate
10.0%
Sports
5.0%
Other
20.0%
Information Technology and Services
19.0%
Computer Software
17.5%
Financial Services
8.7%
Internet
4.2%
Computer & Network Security
3.1%
Other
47.6%
Discussions
Chronosphere 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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