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    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

    New Relic

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/ANew Relic is a SaaS-based web and mobile application performance management provider for the cloud and the datacenter. They provide code-level diagnostics for dedicated infrastructures, the cloud, or hybrid environments and real time monitoring.

    $0

    No credit card required; 100 GB free ingest per month, 1 free full user + unlimited basic users, 8 days retention, 100 Synthetics Checks

    Pricing
    DatadogNew Relic
    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
    Free (Forever)
    $0
    No credit card required; 100 GB free ingest per month, 1 free full user + unlimited basic users, 8 days retention, 100 Synthetics Checks
    Telemetry Data Platform
    $0.25
    per month per extra GB data ingest (after first free 100GB per month)
    Incident Intelligence
    $0.50
    per month per event (after first 1000 free events per month)
    Standard
    $99
    per month per full user (after first free full user - unlimited free basic users)
    Pro
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    Pricing Offerings
    DatadogNew Relic
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    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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    DatadogNew Relic
    Considered Both Products
    Datadog
    Chose Datadog
    We've completely replaced New Relic with Datadog and find it easier to use and more comprehensive. Our AWS and Sentry usage will continue for now. But Datadog gives us a much broader coverage - we can monitor our AWS services and many other services that interact with them. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Datadog
    New Relic was a good tool but had really pushy salespeople. They also released a product called infrastructure recently, and it was worse than their previous product (servers). The previous product was also free! Needless to say, we will not be going back to New Relic any time …
    Incentivized
    Chose Datadog
    Datadog has been harder to setup out-of-the-box compared to its alternatives, although it's graphs and dashboards have been more useful. Other tools handle individual tasks better. For example, Splunk has been the best logging tool I've used, and New Relic is great for CPU and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Datadog
    ease of use and implementation, other than New Relic (which I think is terrible in every possible way), the other two support opentelemetry better, have more manageable costs and comparable basic services, but they do not have the breadt of services dd does.
    Incentivized
    Chose Datadog
    Datadog crushed the competition on price and offering more solutions in one product cutting down on implementation time and effort while ensuring that the "integration" between one of their offerings was completely compatible with any of the others. I'm sure it's not the case …
    Incentivized
    Chose Datadog
    It's a one-stop solution for all our needs whereas in other open-source tools, we have an operational overhead to keep and manage the uptime of these tools as well and also manage their versioning, upgrade, and patching cycle. Also if there are any bugs then we have to raise an …
    Incentivized
    Chose Datadog
    One of the most important reason is single agent configuration for all kinds of monitoring. It also proved an auto upgrade feature of agents that reduces the overhead. It also provides range of options when it comes to data visualization and dashboards. It also provide tagging …
    Incentivized
    Chose Datadog
    It has been easier to work with Datadog for all our business needs and get things on their roadmap if we found it lacking. Currently we use a mix of various tools as they were existing prior to Datadog came. We are evaluating new offering like Datadog's latest log management to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Datadog
    We are still trying other products, but people still like Datadog. After setting up a dashboard, it's great for monitoring instances on Datadog. Also, the DevOps team had a good time setting up Datadog. It means Datadog was way easier to set up compared to those others.
    Incentivized
    Chose Datadog
    I have only used Datadog
    Incentivized
    Chose Datadog
    UI of the Datadog is easy to understand and integration steps are easy to understand. It also provides the troubleshooting steps which are easy to understand. Supports multi cloud integrations which is very important for all the customers to know about the cloud service's …
    Incentivized
    Chose Datadog
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose Datadog
    1. Grafana is good, but a lot of integration is required for it to work. .that not the case of Datadog
    2. Faster to set up Datadog instead of Grafana
    3. Alerting in Datadog feels much easier thanin Grafana.
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    New Relic
    Chose New Relic
    Less expensive than Datadog and Sentry with almost everything we need. Less effort to set up and maintain than elastic search and kibana so saved a ton on engineering bandwidth which would have otherwise been lost.
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    New Relic in my opinion is a lot better than a tool like Datadog and Splunk. Cost in my opinion is the biggest concern.
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    10 years ago we used AppDynamics onpremise but the cost was too high and we migrated to New Relic, more economical and modern

    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    New Relic's APM is better than Datadog's. It has better traces and dashboards. The Apdex-based alerts are accurate and work predictably even at a large scale. However, New Relic can become expensive as the volume of data ingested grows. Datadog has better dashboards and …
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    There's nothing like New Relic. pingdom has an APM module but it lacks the detail of New Relic. Datadog's strength is measuring the hosting infrastructure rather than the app itself. Sometime you need APM to see what your app is doing.
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    They all have pros and cons. We actually do use both Sentry Datadog and NewRelic depending on the service / need.
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    New Relic stood out to us primarily because of its all-in one approach, combining APM, infra monitoring, logs and alerts in single platform. Compared to other tools we evaluated, if offered a smoother on boarding experience and required less stitching together of different …
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    The New Relic Platform addresses this challenge with the new plugin architecture. Plugins provide a way to monitor each of these technologies, extending the New Relic interface with custom-made dashboards specific to each. They pair the reporting of metrics specific to the …
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    every one is using New Relic
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    New Relic is the most full-featured offering that we've found, and is incredibly easy to start using with a PHP app. The New Relic agent is installed as a PHP extension so it is able to monitor and track the performance of any PHP app being run by the web server. Other tools …
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    At the time, we selected New Relic for the broad coverage it could provide over our landscape.
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    Similar features, the New Relic data ingestion costs are better and UI better as well
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    New Relic has been DevOps and Developer friendly to onboard and use. Also pricing-wise, it is one of the best in terms of ROI. There are few features better in other APM solutions but New Relic is working on new features faster recently.
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
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    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    New Relic has a native integration with the IaaS service that the company utilizes which made it very easy to set up, integrate, and it also has consolidated billing with that IaaS service which is a big plus for the organization. After evaluating, I also thought it had the …
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    We selected New Relic since it was very dynamic and versatile to use. It works well in all aspects of monitoring, and observability and would allow having a focus on collaboration with different repeatable processes. Also, New Relic has a good focus on working well with CLI, …
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    The flexibility of developing custom dashboards, NRQL features over smarted other competitors for us.
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    The differentiating feature, in my opinion, is the support given by New Relic, in our org, there is a slack channel dedicated for New Relic which allows us to have a quicker response and more convenience.
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    We like the support provided by New Relic , they were able to solve the queries with limited interactions and they help us a lot to integrate our application with New Relic.
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    We've found the feature set and usability of New Relic to be superior to similar competing products.
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    New Relic One's new billing model is attractive and allows us to focus on using the correct tools, not counting how many places we would like to use a tool.
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    I find each of them has particular strengths and perhaps they deserve their own space in their particular speciality sector. I find New Relic to be exceptionally good and powerful to aggregate all sorts of meaningful data into Dashboards or Monitoring. So basically the same …
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    New Relic has a lot of benefits comparing to other solutions.

    The main one is usability, compared to other solutions on the market, the interface and usability beats everything else and without good user experience, the user tends to ignore the solution.
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    I've found that New Relic seems to be more focused on the application level vs the infrastructure level. For us, where we have product software engineers in NR using it, this approach works better.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
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    92%
    Would buy again
    61 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
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    97%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    58 Answers
    TrustRadius Insights
    DatadogNew Relic
    Highlights

    TrustRadius
    Research Team Insight
    Published

    Datadog and New Relic both provide businesses with application monitoring tools to gauge performance and troubleshoot performance issues. Datadog is an IT infrastructure monitoring tool that gives IT and DevOps teams insight into their hardware and software stacks. New Relic is an application performance monitoring tool that offers detailed performance analytics for desktop, web, and mobile applications. Since Datadog is aimed at monitoring infrastructure at scale, it’s used primarily by mid-sized companies and large enterprises. New Relic, on the other hand, is used by businesses of all sizes, likely because its pricing tiers and functionality are relevant to a wide variety of team sizes and applications.

    Features

    While Datadog and New Relic both provide businesses with key information about their applications or infrastructure, they have a few unique features that set them apart from each other.

    Datadog has a streamlined user interface that provides a centralized location for performance monitoring, alert management, and data analysis. Additionally, Datadog supports many community-built APIs and extensions, which are freely accessible to users of the platform. These extensions can help newcomers integrate Datadog into their existing IT infrastructure. Recent additions to the Datadog platform include a mobile app, a new UI for incident management, and out-of-the-box dashboards for investigating and analyzing infrastructure security.

    New Relic is generally simple to install and implement, requiring no command-line scripting for Windows and Mac users. New Relic also includes strong data security features that ensure applications are as protected as possible from data breaches, which is particularly important for businesses monitoring applications with sensitive data. New Relic provides a wide variety of community resources for learning the application, helping users train themselves and troubleshoot issues without needing to contact support. Recently, New Relic overhauled their error dashboard, collecting stack traces and error metrics into a single overview for analysis and resolution. They’ve also added one-click permalinks for dashboards and curated views to help teams quickly share insights and analyses. 

    Limitations

    Though Datadog and New Relic both monitor applications well, they do have a few limitations that are important to consider.

    Datadog has a well-designed UI, but can be challenging for new users due to the sheer magnitude of options and data offered by the platform. Datadog can also be difficult to install, requiring command-line scripting on Windows and Mac environments, which can be a problem for businesses without technical staff. Although Datadog offers security measures, it scores worse than New Relic with most security analysts. Businesses looking for high-security monitoring may prefer New Relic.

    New Relic offers simple installation and community learning resources, but its users may struggle with its interface. Additionally, while New Relic does offer many APIs, it does not support community development in the same way Datadog does. Some users may find that New Relic is missing an API they require, and will have to either develop the extension on their own or explore other options.

    Pricing

    Datadog offers several per-month pricing models designed to adapt to different data requirements and infrastructure scales. Their price models include per-host pricing, pricing per million events, and pricing per GB of analyzed log files. For more details on available plans and pricing, refer to the Datadog pricing page. 

    Similarly, New Relic offers multiple service packages with varying pricing structures. Their core offering, the Full-Stack Observability package, includes infrastructure monitoring, APM, and other services. This package is free for the first user at the Standard tier and $99 per additional user per month. For information on pricing for the Pro and Enterprise tier, as well as pricing information for their telemetry data and machine-learning services, refer to the New Relic pricing page.

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    User Ratings
    DatadogNew Relic
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (22 ratings)
    6.6
    (128 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (17 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.9
    (9 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.9
    (6 ratings)
    7.5
    (8 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    8.0
    (10 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DatadogNew Relic
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Datadog
    Datadog works really well with complex microservices architecture like any E-commerce platform which will be having multiple services but they all are interdependent to others so in this scenario Datadog will be best to monitor these as it will show the transactions also between those microservices. If you are using multiple services in your architecture whether it will be cloud services or on prem services Datadog will be the best choice to monitor all those service with in Datadog so that you can see everything in a single place. But if you are having small architecture and few services in that then in that scenario you can use Datadog but it will be little costly as compared to other but obviously the features are very well.
    Incentivized
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    New Relic
    I have used New Relic in different scenarios like monitoring my production infrastructure and applications which helps us to reduce the downtime of my applications and websites and also I have used the synthetic monitoring feature which helps to proactively monitor our websites availability. Along with this I have also used New Relic for cloud resources cost monitoring which helps to reduce my cloud cost. Also I have used mobile application monitoring which helps me to trace the sessions easily and I can easily reduce my RCA through the help of that.
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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.
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    New Relic
    • New Relic APM allows us to follow up transactions across services and trace performance bottlenecks in real-time, crucial when monitoring the processing of energy loads or predictive maintenance algorithms.
    • It gives us deep visibility into our cloud servers, containers and IOT gateways, so we can catch CPU spikes or memory leaks which can impact the data we ingest from the field devices.
    • We develop custom dashboards for monitoring trends of power consumption, abnormality in sensors and API health. In conjunction with alerting, it makes sure we are fixing issues before customers even see them.
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    Cons
    Datadog
    • 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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    New Relic
    • Support for SQL like query with more functional features of analysis while viewing distributed tracing.
    • support for very low level specific integration from APIs to classes to functions to piece of code
    • More detailed documentation, as we faced issues while integrating for the first time.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Datadog
    No answers on this topic
    New Relic
    The only issue that we have had with New Relic is that the price might be a little expensive for smaller companies. The amount of data you store in New Relic impacts the cost, and can get away from you if you don't work closely with the vendor. Overall though the application is top notch.
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    Usability
    Datadog
    There is some room for improvement, but the Datadog team sends out updates frequently, and the UI is user-friendly for engineers, with no significant loading issues or region-specific problems. That was one of the key reasons we preferred Datadog; our company has employees worldwide, and it wasn't difficult to transition to the tool.
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    New Relic
    New Relic helps in observability setup for the critical environments and getting known about the issues and troubleshoot the applications and services. Alerts helps in knowing the abnormal state of the system and services, Dashboards are used for visualizing the key metrics and muting the unwanted notifications and dropping the extra data from the source.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Datadog
    No answers on this topic
    New Relic
    Never observed an outage
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    Performance
    Datadog
    No answers on this topic
    New Relic
    there are times where browser cache will cause issues that require you to clear your browser before continuing.
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    Support Rating
    Datadog
    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.
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    New Relic
    The support team has been really helpful and resolved most of the issues on time. However, for a couple of issues, several follow-ups were needed to elicit a reasonable response. The issue was deeply technical and could have been investigated only by their Architects, and bringing them into the ticket took longer than needed
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    Implementation Rating
    Datadog
    No answers on this topic
    New Relic
    It's better to start by implementing New Relic in one project and test everything. Try to follow best recommended practices and read all the official documentation. Everything seems well tested. Then, start by installing agents to the rest of your projects and keep a close look to all logs and metrics New Relic gives you.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Datadog
    We are still trying other products, but people still like Datadog. After setting up a dashboard, it's great for monitoring instances on Datadog. Also, the DevOps team had a good time setting up Datadog. It means Datadog was way easier to set up compared to those others.
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    New Relic
    New Relic has full stack visibility and gives us all options for observability like one stop shop. It gives you front end, backend as well synthetic monitoring capabilities. Every other feature built into one cost model (usually) which ties to data that you send, it helps you leverage all features without having to pay additional charge for feature
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    Scalability
    Datadog
    No answers on this topic
    New Relic
    Agent deployment is easily integrated into our workflow. Adding the agent to new servers is quick and painless
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    Return on Investment
    Datadog
    • 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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    New Relic
    • We were able to quickly identify our most time consuming APIs. In some cases we were able to bring down times for some apis from 4s to 200ms.
    • We were able to identify our slowest database queries and optimize them for quicker response times.
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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.