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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

    IBM Instana

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AInstana, 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
    DatadogIBM Instana
    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
    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)
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DatadogIBM Instana
    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
    DatadogIBM Instana
    Considered Both Products
    Datadog
    No answer on this topic
    IBM
    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
    Chose IBM Instana
    We selected IBM Instana because it is more accurate than Datadog.
    Incentivized
    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
    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
    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
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    19 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    22 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
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    User Ratings
    DatadogIBM 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)
    User Testimonials
    DatadogIBM Instana
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Datadog
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    IBM
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    Pros
    Datadog
    • 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.
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    • Can monitor application(s) and system(s) with very large throughput of transactions by the second ( it gets everything !!!)
    • Provide strong drill down for your applications and will tell you where the points of failure of an application's is ( servers , network , Databases , etc you name it )
    • Very easy to set up and have it up and running when using the SaaS solution. There's an on premise solution which works just as well but requires more effort and preparation from an infrastructure point of view for your teams to implement.
    • Continuously improve their features and their agents auto-update and keep up. All while not interfering with your applications.
    • Let's you create your own dashboards and visualizations that can be tailored for different kind of users with the data collected.
    • Create your own events and smart alerts so you can know on the spot if something is happening or is likely to happen that needs addressing on your applications / systems
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Datadog
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Likelihood to Renew
    Datadog
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    IBM
    Instana has been able to fulfill our all requirement and provide out of box solution for multiple component like AWS RDS Monitoring and real time alerting setup on basis of that. it is also easy to integrate with other open-source alerting and monitoring tools which makes it easier to incorporate into our solutions
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    Usability
    Datadog
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
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    Support Rating
    Datadog
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    IBM instana support team is good but when we ask them for support, they keep asking same thing again and again and mostly there is no solution
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    Alternatives Considered
    Datadog
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Datadog
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    • Increase up time by early failure identification and performance optimization based on findings in Instana.
    • Enhance user experience by mapping user issues with backend failures
    • Automated actions help fixing known issues without human intervention
    • increase support team efficiency by root cause analysis which decrease the incident solving time
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Datadog Screenshots

    Screenshot of the out-of-the-box and customizable monitoring dashboards.Screenshot of Datadog's collaboration features, where users can discuss issues in-context with production data, annotate changes and notify their teams, see who responded to that alert before, and discover what was done to fix it.Screenshot of where Datadog unifies traces, metrics, and logs—the three pillars of observability.Screenshot of some of Datadog's 400+ built-in integrations.Screenshot of Datadog's Service Map, which decomposes an application into all its component services and draws the observed dependencies between these services in real timeScreenshot of centralized log data, pulled from any source.