Datadog vs. IBM Instana

Datadog

239 Reviews and Ratings

IBM Instana

83 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
IBM Instana	Score8 out of 10	N/A	Instana, an IBM company since the December 2020 acquisition, provides APM services for SOA, microservices, containerized applications and Kubernetes, and cloud native applications, as well as discovery and monitoring for IT assets.	$75 per month per Managed Virtual Server (MVS)

Pricing

Datadog

IBM Instana

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

Essentials: $18
per month per Managed Virtual Server (MVS)
Standard: $75
per month per Managed Virtual Server (MVS)
Self-Hosted: $93.80
per month per Managed Virtual Server (MVS)

Pricing Offerings
Datadog	IBM Instana
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
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	IBM Instana
Considered Both Products	Datadog No answer on this topic	IBM Verified User Chose IBM Instana As a DevOps engineer, I've explored various Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools, including New Relic for real-time insights, AppDynamics for code-level visibility, Dynatrace for AI-driven monitoring, Datadog for comprehensive observability, Splunk for log management, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Instana We selected IBM Instana because it is more accurate than Datadog. Incentivized Helpful? Nikhil Singh Associate Software Engineer in Information Technology at Maersk (Logistics & Supply Chain, 10,001+ employees) Chose IBM Instana Datadog provides a more comprehensive platform, including APM, infrastructure monitoring, and log management. AppDynamics like IBM Instana offers end-to-end visibility, APM and business performance monitoring. IBM Instana competitive advantage might lie in its automatic … Incentivized Helpful? Rahul Paspola Software Developer in Engineering at Chetu (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees) Chose IBM Instana The primary reason we choose IBM Instana was that is was compatible with nearly all of our apps without requiring any modifications to our code. We are really happy that we decided to adopt IBM Instana. Incentivized Helpful? Jose Hernandez computer technician at BGS (Education Management, 11-50 employees) Chose IBM Instana We have used them and for the moment we have chosen IBM Instana first of all because of the price because it is accessible and it works in terms of the results we have obtained, also the way of presenting the schemes and the performance of the systems is very good. Incentivized Helpful?
	Would buy again
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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User Ratings
	Datadog	IBM Instana
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (22 ratings)	8.5 (30 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (1 ratings)	8.3 (3 ratings)
Support Rating	8.9 (6 ratings)	4.5 (1 ratings)