Compare Dash0 and Datadog 
At a Glance
Market Segments
Small-Business (53.8% of reviews)
Mid-Market (47.2% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
$0.60 1 Million Log Records Per Month
$0 Per host, per month
Dash0
Star Rating
(42)4.8 out of 5
Market Segments
Small-Business (53.8% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
$0.60 1 Million Log Records Per Month
Free Trial is available
Browse all 5 pricing plansDatadog
Star Rating
(699)4.4 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (47.2% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
$0 Per host, per month
Free Trial is available
Browse all 3 pricing plansSummary
AI Generated Summary
AI-generated. Powered by real user reviews.
- G2 reviewers report that Datadog excels in providing a comprehensive view of infrastructure and application performance, acting as a single source of truth. Users appreciate its ability to integrate metrics, APM, and log management seamlessly, which is particularly beneficial during incidents.
- Users say that Dash0 stands out for its user-friendly interface and efficient setup process. Reviewers highlight the platform's OTel-native design, which simplifies data integration and avoids vendor lock-in, making it a strong choice for teams looking for flexibility.
- According to verified reviews, Datadog's robust monitoring capabilities are praised, especially for its real-time insights into critical systems on platforms like AWS and GCP. Users find it "very functional," which enhances their operational efficiency.
- Reviewers mention that Dash0's support is a significant advantage, with many noting the team's quick response times and friendly assistance. This level of support contributes to a smoother user experience, especially for those new to observability tools.
- G2 reviewers highlight that while Datadog has a higher overall satisfaction score, Dash0's ease of use and setup scores are notably better. Users appreciate how Dash0 simplifies the onboarding process, making it accessible for small businesses and teams with limited technical resources.
- Users report that Datadog's extensive feature set, including advanced alerting and multi-site monitoring, provides significant value for mid-market companies. However, some users feel that the complexity of its features can be overwhelming for smaller teams, contrasting with Dash0's straightforward approach.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
Dash0
Logs
$0.60
1 Million Log Records Per Month
- Instant Log Filtering and Search.
- Log AI: Automatically Detect Log Patterns.
- Span Context for Effortless Correlation.
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
Dash0
Free Trial is available
Datadog
Free Trial is available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
8.7
38
8.8
520
Ease of Use
9.2
39
8.2
621
Ease of Setup
9.4
39
8.3
387
Ease of Admin
9.2
23
8.3
233
Quality of Support
9.9
38
8.3
462
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
9.9
23
8.5
219
Product Direction (% positive)
10.0
37
9.0
504
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
9.2
15
8.7
56
9.5
14
9.4
72
9.3
14
9.1
64
8.8
12
8.8
58
9.6
12
8.9
58
8.6
12
9.0
51
Agentic AI - Website Monitoring
8.9
6
7.3
5
8.9
6
7.3
5
9.0
5
8.3
5
9.0
5
7.3
5
9.0
5
7.3
5
9.0
5
7.3
5
9.0
5
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
105
Not enough data
9.1
106
Not enough data
9.3
90
Not enough data
8.9
105
Not enough data
8.8
89
Not enough data
8.9
94
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
7.0
5
Functionality
Not enough data
9.2
53
Not enough data
9.3
58
Not enough data
8.2
44
Not enough data
8.5
46
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
50
Not enough data
9.0
51
Not enough data
8.8
48
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
8.6
20
8.9
121
8.0
19
8.6
117
9.0
19
8.8
111
9.3
20
8.8
130
7.1
8
8.3
8
Administration
7.9
17
8.5
115
Feature Not Available
8.5
97
7.4
17
8.3
94
7.3
8
8.5
8
Analysis
7.4
16
8.5
113
9.1
20
8.9
122
8.6
18
Feature Not Available
Agentic AI - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
9.0
5
7.9
8
9.0
5
8.8
8
9.0
5
7.3
8
9.0
5
7.5
8
9.0
5
7.9
8
9.3
5
7.9
7
AI Automation - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
9.3
5
8.1
8
Not enough data
7.5
8
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
20
Not enough data
9.0
20
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
95
Not enough data
8.9
92
Not enough data
8.8
83
Monitoring and Management
Not enough data
8.2
84
Not enough data
8.7
86
Not enough data
9.0
92
Agentic AI - Log Monitoring
Not enough data
7.6
9
Not enough data
7.2
9
Not enough data
8.1
9
Not enough data
7.2
9
Not enough data
8.0
9
Not enough data
7.6
9
Not enough data
7.6
9
Visibility
Not enough data
8.9
78
Not enough data
8.7
73
Not enough data
8.3
71
Monitoring and Management
Not enough data
8.4
71
Not enough data
7.6
66
Not enough data
8.4
68
Not enough data
9.0
72
Not enough data
8.8
67
Not enough data
8.3
72
Cloud environment support
Not enough data
8.1
62
Not enough data
8.0
59
Agentic AI - Server Monitoring
Not enough data
7.5
6
Not enough data
8.3
6
Not enough data
8.9
6
Not enough data
7.2
6
Not enough data
7.8
6
Not enough data
7.2
6
Not enough data
8.1
6
Functionality
Not enough data
8.7
50
Not enough data
8.8
50
Not enough data
9.1
59
Not enough data
7.9
43
Management
Not enough data
8.7
51
Not enough data
8.6
53
Not enough data
8.2
44
Not enough data
9.0
54
Agentic AI - Enterprise Monitoring
Not enough data
7.8
9
Not enough data
8.3
9
Not enough data
8.0
10
Not enough data
8.1
9
Not enough data
7.5
10
Not enough data
8.2
10
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
9.5
22
8.6
66
|
Verified
9.0
21
8.5
64
|
Verified
8.8
22
8.0
62
|
Verified
9.2
20
7.9
63
|
Verified
Analysis
7.9
19
8.6
61
|
Verified
8.1
20
8.4
68
|
Verified
9.5
20
8.8
68
|
Verified
9.1
22
8.5
71
|
Verified
8.9
22
8.6
62
|
Verified
8.9
20
8.8
60
|
Verified
Visualization
9.3
20
8.9
75
|
Verified
9.0
20
8.7
63
|
Verified
Agentic AI - Log Analysis
9.8
7
7.8
6
9.3
5
7.8
6
9.7
5
8.9
6
8.6
6
7.8
6
9.4
6
8.1
6
9.3
5
7.5
6
9.3
5
7.8
6
Monitoring
9.3
23
8.6
113
9.2
24
8.9
106
9.4
24
8.9
118
8.3
18
7.3
99
9.1
23
8.4
105
Response
8.5
25
8.9
123
9.0
24
8.8
110
8.9
21
8.0
107
Agentic AI - Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
7.8
6
7.4
13
10.0
6
8.1
13
9.2
6
7.9
13
9.2
6
8.1
13
9.2
6
7.8
13
Performance
7.3
20
8.5
118
8.2
20
8.3
103
Functionality
Feature Not Available
8.5
106
8.6
17
8.1
96
8.3
17
Feature Not Available
9.4
20
8.5
112
Alerts management
9.0
15
8.7
43
7.8
16
8.0
45
8.8
17
8.6
47
Monitoring
8.5
17
8.6
39
9.4
16
9.1
41
9.2
15
8.7
43
9.2
15
9.0
38
Automation
Feature Not Available
8.2
38
7.6
15
8.4
36
Analysis
9.6
15
8.2
41
8.1
15
8.3
44
9.2
15
9.1
43
8.9
15
8.5
42
Issue Resolution
8.4
15
8.3
37
7.8
15
7.6
39
7.9
15
8.4
35
Functionality
9.5
13
Not enough data
8.2
13
Not enough data
9.0
13
Not enough data
9.7
13
Not enough data
Management
9.1
13
Not enough data
8.6
13
Not enough data
9.4
13
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
9.2
13
Not enough data
Generative AI
7.6
11
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Data Observability
8.8
7
Not enough data
8.8
7
Not enough data
9.3
7
Not enough data
9.4
6
Not enough data
9.4
6
Not enough data
Generative AI
7.4
11
7.5
17
Agentic AI - IT Alerting
9.0
5
7.4
7
9.0
5
7.9
7
9.0
5
8.8
7
9.0
5
7.9
7
9.3
5
8.1
6
9.0
5
7.9
7
9.0
5
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
9.6
14
8.3
10
10.0
16
8.8
8
Agentic AI - Observability Software
9.3
5
Not enough data
9.3
5
Not enough data
9.3
5
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
9.3
5
Not enough data
9.3
5
Not enough data
9.3
5
Not enough data
Visualization & Dashboards - Observability
8.8
15
8.7
9
9.0
13
9.0
10
9.8
14
8.8
8
Correlation & Root Cause Analysis - Observability
9.2
15
9.2
10
8.8
12
8.3
9
8.3
10
8.7
10
Scalability & Ecosystem Integration - Observability
8.6
11
9.3
9
8.5
9
8.5
8
AI Features - Observability
7.8
9
7.9
8
7.1
11
8.8
8
7.6
9
8.3
8
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)Hide 14 FeaturesShow 14 Features
Not enough data
8.8
15
Network Management
Not enough data
8.9
12
Not enough data
8.3
11
Not enough data
9.5
13
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
Dash0 and Datadog are categorized as Observability Software, Application Performance Monitoring (APM), Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring, Log Analysis, Container Monitoring, Website Monitoring, and IT Alerting
Unique Categories
Dash0 is categorized as Data Observability
Datadog is categorized as Observability Pipeline, Enterprise Monitoring, Server Monitoring, Log Monitoring, AIOps Platforms, Network Traffic Analysis (NTA), Database Monitoring, IoT Device Management Platforms, IoT Analytics Platforms, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), API Marketplace, Network Monitoring, Cloud Cost Management, and Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
Dash0
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
Computer Software
25.6%
Information Technology and Services
12.8%
Automotive
7.7%
Human Resources
7.7%
Retail
5.1%
Other
41.0%
Information Technology and Services
18.6%
Computer Software
17.7%
Financial Services
8.5%
Internet
4.1%
Computer & Network Security
3.4%
Other
47.7%
Alternatives
Discussions
Dash0 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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