Datadog vs. Prometheus

Datadog

239 Reviews and Ratings

Prometheus

106 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Datadog	Score8.4 out of 10	N/A	Datadog is a monitoring service for IT, Dev and Ops teams who write and run applications at scale, and want to turn the massive amounts of data produced by their apps, tools and services into actionable insight.	$18 per month per host
Prometheus	Score8.2 out of 10	N/A	Prometheus is a service monitoring and time series database, which is open source.	N/A

Pricing

Datadog

Prometheus

Log Management: $1.27
per month (billed annually) per host
Infrastructure: $15.00
per month (billed annually) per host
Standard: $18
per month per host
Enterprise: $27
per month per host
DevSecOps Pro: $27
per month per host
APM: $31.00
per month (billed annually) per host
DevSecOps Enterprise: $41
per month per host

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Pricing Offerings
Datadog	Prometheus
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Optional

No setup fee

Discount available for annual pricing. Multi-Year/Volume discounts available (500+ hosts/mo).

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Datadog	Prometheus
Considered Both Products	Datadog Verified User Chose Datadog Dynatrace was cheaper but, in my opinion, its setup, features, and overall user experience do not come close to what Datadog can offer, making it more of a pain to use and not worth the cheaper cost over Datadog (especially if migrating away from Datadog to Dynatrace). Grafana/… Incentivized Helpful? sai charan Software Engineer in Engineering at Kore.ai (Information Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees) Chose Datadog we primarily use Kubernetes, and Prometheus is great for collecting time series metrics, especially in Kubernetes. and Grafana is used for dashboards. As these are open source, we host them and manage them internally. We choose Datadog because of its logs, traces, and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Datadog Datadog is best for cloud-native and fast-setup. It is more mature for infrastructure and real-time observability. The UI is more user-friendly and provides wide coverage of app insights. Incentivized Helpful?	Open Source Verified User Chose Prometheus We evaluated Datadog and New Relic but cost-wise, these 2 are very expensive. Prometheus does require more leg work to match the feature sets but other than time, the cost is free. Pairing with Grafana, Prometheus can pretty much match features with the big players and still … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Prometheus It is easier to setup, but learning curve is quite moderately steep. Prometheus is a best-in-class tool for engineers and SREs in cloud-native environments. When extended with tools like Thanos or Cortex, it can rival commercial platforms in scale and capability—but requires … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Prometheus As I mentioned earlier, Prometheus had an added advantage that we were able to monitor CPU, RAM, Disk Space, process monitoring which other tools did not provide us Some tools were obsolete, and other were costly when we wanted this good feature , only Prometheus delivered on … Incentivized Helpful? Yatin Garg Product Manager in Product Management at Cars24 (Automotive, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Prometheus Highly customized pricing plans to choose from. Lower pricing for the same features compared to competitors. Easy to reach the support team, which provided detailed documentation and helped set up the Prometheus. Monitoring metrics gets very easy after the integration with … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Prometheus Since Prometheus is free to use and provides all the features we required we went with Prometheus if any feature is missing then we can consider other paid solutions like data dog. Incentivized Helpful? Prashant Chaudhari Head of Engineering & Founding team member in Engineering at Jombay (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Prometheus Prometheus is cheaper, and you can quickly set it up compared to others. It is integrated with most of the open-source monitoring and alerting tools and can help small companies in having a cost-effective solution early in their stage. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Prometheus Prometheus is similar to some of its competitors but delivers with regards to metrics; being used internally by Google and other cloud-native companies like ours gives us the confidence that the alerting industry stakeholders view it as a long-term solution that the community … Incentivized Helpful? Asad Khan Technical CARE Specialist in Engineering at Nokia (Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees) Chose Prometheus Prometheus is best suited for Kubernetes metrics as compared to Zabbix. Incentivized Helpful?
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TrustRadius Insights
	Datadog	Prometheus
Highlights	Research Team Insight Published October 28, 2020 Datadog and Prometheus are IT service monitoring tools designed to give businesses insight into the performance of their hardware and software stacks. Datadog is a single-pane-of-glass solution with monitoring, alerting, data analysis, and visualization capabilities. Prometheus is a free open-source tool focused solely on monitoring and alerting. On TrustRadius, Datadog is used primarily by mid-sized companies, while Prometheus is primarily used by large enterprises. Features Although both Datadog and Prometheus have similar core functionality, their user experience and implementation are significantly different. Datadog is a professionally-supported product with plenty of visual analysis and quality-of-life features. Users on TrustRadius appreciate that it allows them to monitor performance, manage alerts, add and remove monitored resources, and analyze data from a single centralized application. Its data analysis tools in particular give customers multiple ways to view, manipulate, and understand the metrics generated by Datadog. The platform has a wealth of functionality available, and a wide array of officially-supported extensions add helpful features. A professional support team and strong user community help customers resolve any problems they may encounter. Prometheus, on the other hand, is a free open-source tool that focuses exclusively on monitoring and alerting. As a standalone application, Prometheus has a simple initial setup. It stores all scraped metrics in a database that can be searched with a query language to retrieve and evaluate performance data. Prometheus is extremely customizable, with several community-supported integrations and the freedom to create and tweak alerting rules as needed. Limitations Datadog and Prometheus won’t be the right solution for every business, as they have significantly different user experiences. Make sure you consider the limitations of each platform before committing to one or the other. According to reviewers on TrustRadius, Datadog can be overwhelming for new users. Its large array of functionality can be useful, but it can also be intimidating for new users. Overall, the platform requires significant user training and customization. Even experienced users have reported difficulty navigating the platform. Some features and edge cases lack sufficient documentation, necessitating a customer support ticket or a request for help from the community. Although Datadog’s price point is reasonable when compared to licensed competitor software, customers still have to pay per host, per GB of log data, or per log event. For smaller organizations, Datadog may very well be overkill. In comparison, Prometheus offers a classic open-source experience—for better or for worse. Users must be prepared to write code, create configuration files, and operate without a GUI. New users will also have to spend plenty of time learning how to use Prometheus. Since it is an open-source software with no professional support, users will need to rely on community documentation and support, which may be sparse or take time to get results from. Additionally, Prometheus relies on third-party applications for data visualization and analysis, requiring users to manually configure the dataflow from a monitored application to Prometheus, and then from Prometheus to other software. Finally, Prometheus has no built-in authentication or authorization features, relying on other tools to provide access security. Pricing Datadog offers several per-month pricing models designed to adapt to various operation scales and requirements. These models include pricing per host, per million log events, per function, per GB of analyzed log files, and per session. For more details on the available plans and pricing, refer to the Datadog pricing page. Prometheus is open-source and can be downloaded for free.

User Ratings
	Datadog	Prometheus
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (22 ratings)	7.5 (36 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (1 ratings)	6.0 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	8.9 (6 ratings)	5.0 (1 ratings)