🆚 Azure Monitor vs. Datadog

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Azure Monitor is twice as popular as Datadog.
🌎 Azure Monitor is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
🌎 Datadog is more popular in France, Brazil, and Indonesia.

Azure Monitor

Datadog

Type

Application monitoring tool

About

Azure Monitor is a solution that collects, analyzes, and acts on telemetry from various resources, including Windows Servers and VMs.

Datadog is a SaaS monitoring and security platform for infrastructure and applications.

Headquarters

Redmond, Washington, United States

New York, United States

Website

azure.microsoft.com

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Pricing

Free tier ✔️First 5 GB of analytics logs with 30-31 days of retention + platform metrics ingestion + 1M metric queries per month

Ingested logsAuxiliary$0.10/GB
Basic$0.50/GB
Analytics$2.30/GB

Querying Basic or Auxiliary Logs$0.005 per GB of data scanned

Custom metrics ingestion$0.16/10M samples ingested

Platform and custom metric queries beyond the free 1M$0.01/1K API calls

Free version ✔️1-day metric retention, up to 5 hosts

Pro$18+/host/month

Enterprise$27+/host/month

APM$36+/host/month

APM Pro$42+/host/month

APM Enterprise$48+/host/month

Log ingest$0.10+/GB

RUM$1.50+/1K sessions/month

Synthetic Browser Testing$12+/1K runs/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Azure Monitor application monitoring tool is 2 times more popular than Datadog.

Total websites

Market share

Application Monitoring

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Azure Monitor is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, while Datadog is more popular in France, Brazil, and Indonesia.

United States

United Kingdom

Netherlands

Sweden

Australia

Norway

Germany

Canada

France

Brazil

Awards

🥇 Most popular in Norway in the Application Monitoring category.
🥈 Second most popular in Sweden in the Application Monitoring category.
🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the Application Monitoring category.
🥉 Third most popular in the Netherlands in the Application Monitoring category.
🥉 Third most popular in Finland in the Application Monitoring category.

⭐ 4th most popular in Indonesia in the Application Monitoring category.
⭐ 4th most popular in France in the Application Monitoring category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Japan in the Application Monitoring category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Korea in the Application Monitoring category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Singapore in the Application Monitoring category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Azure Monitor is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference, while Datadog is more commonly used on online shopping, entertainment, and fashion and beauty sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Education/Reference

Finance/Banking

Public Information

Travel

Health

Government/Military

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO