Alternatives to Datadog
Who this is for
If you're comparing Datadog with other companies in Observability, start here. These are the 19 other active companies Techarda tracks in the same categories, ordered by their activity score: recent stories, follows and discussion on Techarda. It shows where attention is, not which company is better or right for you.
The score is worked out the same way as “Most active” in the company directory; how we rank sets out the maths. Vendors can't pay to move up. Back to the Datadog profile.
Observability: Datadog's main category
19 companies sit alongside Datadog here, busiest first.
- New Relic#4 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Datadog
New Relic is an observability company that provides a SaaS platform for monitoring applications, infrastructure, logs, browsers, mobile apps and AI workloads. Its all-in-one…
- 31 stories in the last 90 days
- Microsoft#20 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Datadog
Microsoft is a global technology company whose enterprise portfolio spans the Azure cloud platform, Microsoft 365 productivity software, Dynamics 365 business applications…
- 20 stories in the last 90 days
- Elastic#6 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Datadog
Elastic is the company behind Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash and Beats, collectively known as the Elastic Stack. Founded in 2012 by Shay Banon and others, it is incorporated in…
- 33 stories in the last 90 days
- Dynatrace#2 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Datadog
Dynatrace is an observability and application security company founded in Linz, Austria, in 2005 and headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. Its AI-powered platform covers…
- 32 stories in the last 90 days
- Cribl#19 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Datadog
Cribl is a telemetry data management company founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco. Its products, including Cribl Stream, Cribl Edge, Cribl Search and Cribl Lake, let…
- 28 stories in the last 90 days
- LogicMonitor#12 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Datadog
LogicMonitor is a SaaS observability company whose LM Envision platform monitors hybrid IT infrastructure, including networks, servers, cloud services, containers, applications…
- 22 stories in the last 90 days
- SolarWinds#13 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Datadog
SolarWinds is an IT management and observability software company headquartered in Austin, Texas, founded in 1999. It sells SolarWinds Observability for SaaS and self-hosted…
- 27 stories in the last 90 days
- Grafana Labs#5 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Datadog
Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana, the open source visualisation and dashboarding tool, and the LGTM observability stack of Loki, Grafana, Tempo and Mimir. It sells…
- 18 stories in the last 90 days
- 1 community thread
- Honeycomb#7 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Datadog
Honeycomb is a US observability company whose platform lets engineering teams query high-cardinality, high-dimensionality event and trace data to debug production systems. It is…
- 25 stories in the last 90 days
- PagerDuty#15 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Datadog
PagerDuty is a digital operations management company whose PagerDuty Operations Cloud provides incident management, on-call scheduling and alerting, AIOps event correlation…
- 13 stories in the last 90 days
- Coralogix#14 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Datadog
Coralogix is an observability platform company founded in 2014 by Ariel Assaraf. It provides a SaaS platform for logs, metrics, traces, real user monitoring and security data…
- 14 stories in the last 90 days
- BigPanda#16 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Datadog
BigPanda is a US AIOps company founded in 2012. Its platform uses machine learning and AI to correlate alerts from monitoring, observability and change tools into incidents…
- 12 stories in the last 90 days
- ServiceNow#9 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Datadog
ServiceNow is a US enterprise software company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, founded in 2004 by Fred Luddy. Its ServiceNow AI Platform automates workflows across IT…
Evidence is still building for ServiceNow.
- Sumo Logic#11 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Datadog
Sumo Logic is a US cloud-native log analytics company founded in 2010 and headquartered in Redwood City, California. It provides a SaaS platform for log management, observability…
Evidence is still building for Sumo Logic.
- Checkly#18 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Datadog
Checkly is a synthetic monitoring and API monitoring company founded in 2018 and based in Berlin, Germany. Its platform uses Playwright-based browser checks and API checks defined…
- 3 stories in the last 90 days
- Chronosphere#8 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Datadog
Chronosphere is a cloud native observability company founded in 2019 by Martin Mao and Rob Skillington, creators of the M3 metrics platform at Uber. It offers the Chronosphere…
Evidence is still building for Chronosphere.
- IBM#10 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Datadog
IBM is a US technology company providing hybrid cloud and AI software, infrastructure and consulting. Its portfolio includes Red Hat OpenShift, the watsonx AI and data platform…
Evidence is still building for IBM.
- Kentik#17 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Datadog
Kentik is a US network observability company whose SaaS platform analyses flow data, device metrics, cloud flow logs, routing and synthetic test results to help teams monitor…
Evidence is still building for Kentik.
- Splunk#3 leader in ObservabilityCompare with Datadog
Splunk is a US software company, founded in 2003 in San Francisco, that makes data platforms for security and observability. Its products include Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud…
Evidence is still building for Splunk.
How this list is put together
Every company here shares at least one category with Datadog. Each one appears once, under the first shared category, with Datadog's main category first. The counts are published, moderated material anyone can read on Techarda: published solutions, stories from the last 90 days, community threads that name the company and published reviews. A count of zero is left out rather than shown.
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