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At a Glance
Market Segments
Mid-Market (46.7% of reviews)
Mid-Market (53.3% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
$0 Per host, per month
No pricing available
Datadog
Star Rating
(630)4.4 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (46.7% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
$0 Per host, per month
Free Trial is available
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Star Rating
(15)4.7 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (53.3% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
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AI Generated Summary
AI-generated. Powered by real user reviews.
- Users report that Datadog excels in its alerting capabilities, with a score of 9.2, making it a preferred choice for teams needing robust multi-channel alerting. In contrast, Honeycomb's alerting functionality, while still strong at 9.1, does not quite match the breadth of Datadog's offerings.
- Reviewers mention that Honeycomb shines in its quality of support, achieving a remarkable score of 9.4, which is significantly higher than Datadog's 8.3. This indicates that users may find more responsive and helpful support when using Honeycomb.
- G2 users highlight Datadog's superior performance monitoring features, scoring 9.2, which includes comprehensive real-time monitoring and performance baselines. Honeycomb, while competitive, scores slightly lower in this area, indicating that Datadog may provide a more thorough monitoring experience.
- Users on G2 report that Honeycomb's data visualization capabilities are impressive, with a score of 9.3, allowing for better insights and trend tracking. Datadog, while also strong in this area with a score of 8.9, may not offer the same level of intuitive visualizations as Honeycomb.
- Reviewers say that Datadog's automation features, scoring 8.0, are beneficial for teams looking to streamline their monitoring processes. However, Honeycomb's automation capabilities, with a score of 8.6, suggest it may offer more advanced options for users seeking to enhance their operational efficiency.
- Users report that Honeycomb's proactive identification and root cause analysis features are particularly effective, scoring 9.2 and 8.4 respectively. In comparison, Datadog's scores in these areas are lower, indicating that Honeycomb may provide a more robust solution for incident management and troubleshooting.
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Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
Datadog
Free
$0
Per host, per month
Core collection and visualization features
- Discussion Group Supported
- 1-Day Metric Retention
- Up to 5 Hosts
Honeycomb
No pricing availableFree Trial
Datadog
Free Trial is available
Honeycomb
No trial information availableRatings
Meets Requirements
8.7
478
8.9
11
Ease of Use
8.2
558
8.5
14
Ease of Setup
8.3
328
8.3
12
Ease of Admin
8.3
214
Not enough data
Quality of Support
8.3
425
9.5
11
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
8.5
201
Not enough data
Product Direction (% positive)
8.9
463
10.0
10
Features by Category
Operations
7.3
5
Not enough data
8.0
5
Not enough data
6.7
7
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Cost Optimization
7.6
7
Not enough data
7.3
5
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Administration
8.0
5
Not enough data
7.8
6
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Cloud Cost Management
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Functionality
8.7
48
Not enough data
9.3
62
Not enough data
9.0
56
Not enough data
8.8
49
Not enough data
8.9
51
Not enough data
8.9
44
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Website Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Functionality
9.2
99
Not enough data
9.0
100
Not enough data
9.3
85
Not enough data
8.9
100
Not enough data
8.8
84
Not enough data
8.9
89
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Database Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Functionality
9.2
48
Not enough data
9.2
53
Not enough data
8.1
39
Not enough data
8.5
41
Not enough data
Monitoring - Network Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Management
8.6
45
Not enough data
9.0
46
Not enough data
8.8
43
Not enough data
Analytics - Network Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Security - Network Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Network Performance - Network Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
AI Automation - Network Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Network Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Monitoring
8.9
114
Not enough data
8.6
110
Not enough data
8.8
105
Not enough data
8.7
124
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Administration
8.5
109
Not enough data
8.5
89
Not enough data
8.3
88
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Analysis
8.5
107
Not enough data
8.8
112
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
AI Automation - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Automation
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
8.1
6
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
8.5
8
Not enough data
Functionality
8.7
9
Not enough data
7.8
9
Not enough data
7.7
8
Not enough data
9.1
9
Not enough data
Incident Management
8.5
11
Not enough data
9.1
11
Not enough data
8.9
11
Not enough data
Functionality
9.0
15
Not enough data
8.4
16
Not enough data
9.3
20
Not enough data
Issue Resolution
9.0
18
Not enough data
9.0
15
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Management
8.6
18
Not enough data
9.5
18
Not enough data
8.9
18
Not enough data
Generative AI
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - AIOps Platforms
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Visibility
8.8
80
Not enough data
9.0
79
Not enough data
8.8
73
Not enough data
Monitoring and Management
8.3
75
Not enough data
8.7
77
Not enough data
9.0
81
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Log Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Visibility
8.8
71
Not enough data
8.6
65
Not enough data
8.2
63
Not enough data
Monitoring and Management
8.4
64
Not enough data
7.6
59
Not enough data
8.3
61
Not enough data
9.0
64
Not enough data
8.7
60
Not enough data
8.3
65
Not enough data
Cloud environment support
8.1
57
Not enough data
7.9
54
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Server Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Functionality
8.4
36
Not enough data
8.6
36
Not enough data
8.8
38
Not enough data
7.8
32
Not enough data
Management
8.4
35
Not enough data
8.6
38
Not enough data
8.1
35
Not enough data
9.0
40
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Enterprise Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Data Sources
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Analytics
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Metrics
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Device Recognition
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Provisioning
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Data Preparation
8.5
58
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Verified
Not enough data
8.5
57
|
Verified
Not enough data
7.8
55
|
Verified
Not enough data
7.8
55
|
Verified
Not enough data
Analysis
8.6
53
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.4
60
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.7
61
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.5
64
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.6
54
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.7
52
|
Verified
Not enough data
Visualization
8.9
66
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.7
56
|
Verified
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Log Analysis
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Monitoring
8.6
102
Not enough data
8.9
94
Not enough data
8.9
104
Not enough data
7.3
89
Not enough data
8.5
95
Not enough data
Response
8.8
112
Not enough data
8.8
99
Not enough data
8.0
92
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Performance
8.5
106
Not enough data
8.2
92
Not enough data
Functionality
8.5
94
Not enough data
8.0
86
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
8.5
101
Not enough data
Alerts management
8.7
39
Not enough data
8.0
41
Not enough data
8.6
43
Not enough data
Monitoring
8.6
34
Not enough data
9.1
37
Not enough data
8.7
39
Not enough data
9.1
34
Not enough data
Automation
8.4
34
Not enough data
8.6
32
Not enough data
Analysis
8.2
37
Not enough data
8.4
40
Not enough data
9.2
39
Not enough data
8.5
38
Not enough data
Issue Resolution
8.3
33
Not enough data
7.6
36
Not enough data
8.5
31
Not enough data
Generative AI
7.3
11
Not enough data
Agentic AI - IT Alerting
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Data Management - Observability Pipeline
Not enough data
Not enough data
7.4
7
Not enough data
6.7
5
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
6.4
7
Not enough data
Performance - Observability Pipeline
5.8
6
Not enough data
8.1
7
Not enough data
6.9
7
Not enough data
AI - Observability Pipeline
6.0
5
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Compliance - Observability Pipeline
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Observability Pipeline
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Telemetry Collection & Ingestion - Observability
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Observability Software
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Visualization & Dashboards - Observability
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Correlation & Root Cause Analysis - Observability
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Scalability & Ecosystem Integration - Observability
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
AI Features - Observability
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - AWS Marketplace
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Response
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
7.9
42
Not enough data
Records
9.2
49
Not enough data
8.9
47
Not enough data
8.5
54
Not enough data
Management
9.2
50
Not enough data
8.4
46
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Generative AI
7.2
9
Not enough data
7.8
9
Not enough data
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)Hide 14 FeaturesShow 14 Features
8.9
13
Not enough data
Network Management
9.2
10
Not enough data
8.7
10
Not enough data
9.4
11
Not enough data
Incident Management
9.2
11
Not enough data
9.2
10
Not enough data
9.1
11
Not enough data
Security Intelligence
8.2
11
Not enough data
8.3
9
Not enough data
9.2
10
Not enough data
8.8
12
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
Datadog and Honeycomb are categorized as Observability Software, Enterprise Monitoring, Log Monitoring, Website Monitoring, Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring, Container Monitoring, Log Analysis, and Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Unique Categories
Datadog is categorized as Observability Pipeline, Server Monitoring, AIOps Platforms, Network Traffic Analysis (NTA), Database Monitoring, IoT Device Management Platforms, IoT Analytics Platforms, IT Alerting, Incident Response, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), API Marketplace, Network Monitoring, and Cloud Cost Management
Honeycomb is categorized as AWS Marketplace
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
Datadog
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Honeycomb
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Small-Business
(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market
(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise
(> 1000 emp.)
Reviewers' Industry
Information Technology and Services
19.1%
Computer Software
16.8%
Financial Services
8.9%
Internet
4.5%
Retail
3.1%
Other
47.7%
Information Technology and Services
20.0%
Financial Services
20.0%
Computer Software
13.3%
Research
6.7%
Marketing and Advertising
6.7%
Other
33.3%
Most Helpful Reviews
Datadog
Most Helpful Favorable Review
Debabrata P.
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
With datadog you can quickly get up and running. May be the easiest among all out there. Since it enables you to put everything into one dashboard irrespective of their zone,VPC or environment type we can have one bookmarked place to look at for the first...
Most Helpful Critical Review
Verified User in Computer Software
As described in the previous section, the lack of support resulting in us not being able to resolve a deployment mistake and resulting billing issue.
Honeycomb
Most Helpful Favorable Review
Josh S.
Verified User in Banking
I like that Honeycomb is an event-driven observability platform for debugging systems, application code, and databases. Honeycomb ingests structured data and performs read-time query aggregation to support speedy analytics over ultra-rich datasets without...
Most Helpful Critical Review
Debabrata P.
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
With datadog you can quickly get up and running. May be the easiest among all out there. Since it enables you to put everything into one dashboard irrespective of their zone,VPC or environment type we can have one bookmarked place to look at for the first...
Josh S.
Verified User in Banking
I like that Honeycomb is an event-driven observability platform for debugging systems, application code, and databases. Honeycomb ingests structured data and performs read-time query aggregation to support speedy analytics over ultra-rich datasets without...
Verified User in Computer Software
As described in the previous section, the lack of support resulting in us not being able to resolve a deployment mistake and resulting billing issue.
Discussions
Does Datadog use AWS?
2 comments
IG
Yes, the backbone of Datadog infrastructure is sitting within AWS.Read more
What is the use of Datadog?
2 comments
CJ
Datadog is a software platform that facilitates data sharing across various teams within an organization, thereby breaking down silos between development,...Read more
Does it preserves history of logs?
1 comment
AN
Depends on your plan, log retention can be 7,15, 30 days etc, for long term you need to setup s3 archivingRead more
Honeycomb has no discussions with answers
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