Datadog vs. SolarWinds Observability
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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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 |
SolarWinds Observability | N/A | N/A | SolarWinds Observability is a SaaS offering purpose-built to enable DevOps teams to have unified and correlated end-to-end visibility across the technology stack, from the infrastructure, database and application to the end-user experience. It helps organizations meet service-level agreements (SLAs) and user satisfaction service-level objectives (SLOs). The observability offering helps make it easy to understand and has holistic oversight into service delivery and the individual component… | $60 per year 1 gb at starting at 1 day retention (more retention options*) |
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| Entry-level Setup Fee | Optional | No setup fee | ||||||||||||||
| Additional Details | Discount available for annual pricing. Multi-Year/Volume discounts available (500+ hosts/mo). | *Log retention available in 1, 7, 15, 30, and 60 days (for more than 60 days retention, talk to sales). | ||||||||||||||
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| Considered Both Products | No answer on this topic | No answer on this topic |
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| Would buy again | ||
95% Would buy again 21 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
| Delivers good value for the price | ||
95% Delivers good value for the price 19 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
| Happy with the feature set | ||
100% Happy with the feature set 22 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
| Lived up to sales and marketing promises | ||
100% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 14 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
| Implementation went as expected | ||
100% Implementation went as expected 14 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
| Datadog | SolarWinds Observability | |
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| Small Businesses | Amazon CloudWatch Score8.2 out of 10 | Amazon CloudWatch Score8.2 out of 10 |
| Medium-sized Companies | Sumo Logic Score9.4 out of 10 | Datadog Score8.4 out of 10 |
| Enterprises | NetBrain Technologies Score9.2 out of 10 | NetBrain Technologies Score9.2 out of 10 |
| All Alternatives | View all alternatives | View all alternatives |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 9.0 | - |
| Usability | 10.0 | - |
| Support Rating | 8.9 | - |
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| ScreenShots | Datadog Screenshots | SolarWinds Observability Screenshots |












