Datadog vs. Grafana OnCall

A one-stop solution for everything you need. Multiple functionalities are tailored to meet specific business needs. Logs are essential for any business, and Datadog manages logs effectively. Rum sessions are something new to me and have given us a new perspective on how to reverse engineer issues that we see for our customers.

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One of the greatest drawback in any big companies is that different teams within an IT departments do not know what the others do. The worst case scenario is than Service Desk doesn't know where the issue resolution is and can not provide business with estimation recovery time as well as any update about the root cause of an issue. Grafana OnCall is the best tool that solved this misscolaboration in our company.

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• Create Dashboards as per application, environments, and Custom metrics in one panel.
• Log aggregation, one-stop Application monitoring tools for the whole infrastructure.
• Playbooks, SLA definition, success and error quotas, request visualizations.
• DB monitoring, Serverless stack monitoring.
• Alerting of Production incidents so we can quickly resolve the issues on time.

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• Interface and information visualization
• Escalations process with useful IF, ELSE alerting logic
• Simple integration with wide list of data sources and using of webhooks for non-supported sources.

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• Alert windows cause lag in notifications (e.g. if the alert window is X errors in 1 hour, we won't get alerted until the end of the 1 hour range)
• I would appreciate more supportive examples for how to filter and view metrics in the explorer
• I would like a more clear interface for metrics that are missing in a time frame, rather than only showing tags/etc. for metrics that were collected within the currently viewed time frame

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• it's a little complex to set up
• landline phone numbers cannot be validated, only mobile numbers
• Documentation is not entirely clear, particularly the section on provisioning with Terraform.

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Datadog's user interface is quite friendly and easy to navigate. With menus clearly categorized, and ability to bookmark important dashboards, one can easily find what they're looking for. For dashboards, ability to move and resize visualizations and group them, is really helpful to organize dashboards. Automatic suggestions from Datadog for important visualizations based on the metrics and logs would provide another level of ease of use.

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setting up the Grafana OnCall functionality is complex but if you setup this and you know how to setup then the rest is easy. IAC is provided with terraform The UI for the alert groups shows the alerts in one view and from there you can go to the relevant alert trigger to solve the problems.

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The support team usually gets it right. We did have a rather complicate issue setting up monitoring on a domain controller. However, they are usually responsive and helpful over chat. The downside would be I don’t think they have any phone support. If that is important to you this might not be a good fit.

Incentivized

I selected Datadog because of its features and the wide range of integration support. As I already told it supports more that 600+ integrations which helps and organization to keep everything in a single place and also its AI feature which is reducing the time for root cause analysis. Its custom dashboards features which helps us to visualize the data in a more attractive way.

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Grafana OnCall is integrated withini Grafana Cloud. We use this from one glass of view perspectief. One system , one UI to easy find the problems and solve them. It is also included in the Grana Cloud license, a single party with whom you do business and can receive discounts. we have switched from OpsGenie

Incentivized

• Saved us (time & money) from developing our own monitoring utilities that would pale in comparison
• Alerts allow us to remedy issues before our customers even know about them
• Tracking resource usage over time allows us to better plan for future needs, before it becomes a pain-point.

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• we have a dedicated duty team to use the oncall-duty alert
• we use the Grafana OnCall for single pane of glass, one internal tool integrated with alerts from the other functionality
• easy creation of the incident rapportage

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