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Datadog vs. SolarWinds Pingdom

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Datadog

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ADatadog 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

    SolarWinds Pingdom

    Score9.8 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds Pingdom is a website uptime monitoring and alert tool, with additional reporting and Real User Monitoring capabilities. Pingdom is part of SolarWinds’s DevOps package, enabling full-stack monitoring as a service.

    $14.95

    per month

    Pricing
    DatadogSolarWinds Pingdom
    Editions & Modules
    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
    Synthetic Monitoring
    $10
    per month
    Real User Monitoring
    $10
    per month
    Enterprise
    Custom Pricing
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DatadogSolarWinds Pingdom
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing. Multi-Year/Volume discounts available (500+ hosts/mo).
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    Community Pulse
    DatadogSolarWinds Pingdom
    Considered Both Products
    Datadog
    Chose Datadog
    Datadog is an all in one solution. It has everything in one place so you don't have to go from application to application and try to figure out what exactly happened. No more stitching database errors from one third party to backend errors in another to front end errors in …
    Incentivized
    SolarWinds
    Chose SolarWinds Pingdom
    I have used Datadog's testing, and it is far more in-depth but more expensive. Pingdom was simple and easy to set up and very reliable, but Datadog had more advanced features but also cost a lot more and wasn't as simple to set up.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds Pingdom
    Newrelic has some simple uptime monitoring but it has very unclear pricing, which depends on how often you ping. And for our needs the next pricing bracket was way too much, maybe 10x. This could make sense if we were going to use the other monitoring capabilities of NewRelic …
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds Pingdom
    At least during our investigation thus far, all of these companies have a more responsive support organization and are more actively maintaininbg and supporting their products. They are also all significantly more expensive.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds Pingdom
    Pricing and easiness to set up
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds Pingdom
    Some of the products mentioned here are much more "holistic solutions" for monitoring, analyzing, logging, alerting, etc., but for the use case, we use SolarWinds Pingdom. I think that SolorWinds Pingdom is much simpler and friendlier for configuring and maintaining. We …
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds Pingdom
    Pingdom is best at what it does: simple uptime checks.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    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
    DatadogSolarWinds Pingdom
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (22 ratings)
    4.5
    (65 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.9
    (6 ratings)
    4.1
    (54 ratings)