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At a Glance
Market Segments
Mid-Market (46.7% of reviews)
Mid-Market (52.1% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
$0 Per host, per month
Free With One-Time Purchase
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
(195)4.4 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (52.1% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
Free With One-Time Purchase
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AI Generated Summary
AI-generated. Powered by real user reviews.
- Users report that Datadog excels in real-time monitoring with a score of 9.2, while Zabbix scores slightly lower at 8.7. Reviewers mention that Datadog's ability to provide immediate insights into system performance is a significant advantage for proactive management.
- Reviewers mention that Datadog's multi-cloud management capabilities are rated at 8.5, which is competitive, but Zabbix shines with a score of 9.0. Users on G2 appreciate Zabbix's seamless integration across various cloud environments, making it a preferred choice for organizations with diverse cloud strategies.
- Users say that Datadog's alerting functionality is robust, scoring 9.2, compared to Zabbix's 9.1. Reviewers highlight Datadog's multi-channel alerting system as a key feature that ensures critical notifications are not missed, enhancing operational responsiveness.
- Reviewers mention that Zabbix offers superior reporting capabilities with a score of 8.8, while Datadog scores 8.7. Users report that Zabbix's customizable reports allow for deeper insights into system performance, which is crucial for long-term planning and analysis.
- G2 users indicate that Datadog's logging features are highly rated at 9.3, surpassing Zabbix's 8.6. Users appreciate the detailed log management in Datadog, which aids in troubleshooting and performance optimization.
- Users on G2 report that Zabbix's anomaly detection capabilities are rated at 8.8, while Datadog's is lower at 7.7. Reviewers mention that Zabbix's advanced algorithms for identifying unusual patterns in data help in preemptively addressing potential issues.
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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
Zabbix
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Free
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Ratings
Meets Requirements
8.7
478
8.7
164
Ease of Use
8.2
558
7.3
164
Ease of Setup
8.3
328
7.4
96
Ease of Admin
8.3
214
7.9
95
Quality of Support
8.3
425
7.9
119
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
8.5
201
8.1
74
Product Direction (% positive)
8.9
463
8.4
162
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
8.6
21
9.0
100
9.0
21
9.3
85
8.4
20
8.9
100
8.1
21
8.8
84
8.3
21
8.9
89
8.3
21
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
9.2
44
9.2
53
9.2
45
8.1
39
6.8
38
8.5
41
8.9
42
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
8.8
43
9.0
46
8.5
44
8.8
43
7.8
40
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
9.3
30
8.6
110
8.7
26
8.8
105
9.0
27
8.7
124
9.2
30
Not enough data
Not enough data
Administration
8.5
109
8.9
28
8.5
89
9.0
28
8.3
88
9.2
26
Not enough data
Not enough data
Analysis
8.5
107
9.0
29
8.8
112
8.8
30
Feature Not Available
8.1
23
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
Not enough data
8.2
31
Not enough data
8.8
31
Not enough data
8.2
30
Monitoring and Management
Not enough data
9.0
28
Not enough data
8.0
28
Not enough data
8.3
29
Not enough data
8.8
30
Agentic AI - Hardware 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
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
8.8
40
8.6
65
8.8
41
8.2
63
8.5
40
Monitoring and Management
8.4
64
8.8
40
7.6
59
8.0
36
8.3
61
8.4
36
9.0
64
8.8
41
8.7
60
8.9
25
8.3
65
8.6
23
Cloud environment support
8.1
57
8.3
22
7.9
54
8.6
20
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
9.2
14
8.6
36
9.2
15
8.8
38
8.7
14
7.8
32
9.0
5
Management
8.4
35
9.2
15
8.6
38
8.6
16
8.1
35
8.9
15
9.0
40
9.4
16
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
8.6
12
8.9
94
9.0
13
8.9
104
9.0
13
7.3
89
8.8
7
8.5
95
9.0
14
Response
8.8
112
8.9
14
8.8
99
8.8
14
8.0
92
8.2
11
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
Feature Not Available
8.2
92
8.8
11
Functionality
8.5
94
8.5
12
8.0
86
8.2
11
Feature Not Available
Feature Not Available
8.5
101
8.5
13
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
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
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 Zabbix are categorized as Observability Software, Enterprise Monitoring, Server Monitoring, Database Monitoring, Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring, Application Performance Monitoring (APM), and Network Monitoring
Unique Categories
Datadog is categorized as Observability Pipeline, Log Monitoring, AIOps Platforms, Network Traffic Analysis (NTA), IoT Device Management Platforms, IoT Analytics Platforms, Website Monitoring, IT Alerting, Container Monitoring, Log Analysis, Incident Response, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), API Marketplace, and Cloud Cost Management
Zabbix is categorized as Hardware Monitoring
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
Datadog
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Zabbix
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
30.2%
Telecommunications
16.7%
Computer Software
12.5%
Computer & Network Security
5.7%
Internet
4.2%
Other
30.7%
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.
Zabbix
Most Helpful Favorable Review
Juan Fernando V.
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
What I like about Zabbix that it is aimed at providing information infrastructure that monitors and services or processes, when you know that IT resources have and the information from these, you have time where they can best develop strategies and the...
Most Helpful Critical Review
Stavros C.
Verified User in Construction
if very difficult to configure the servers
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...
Juan Fernando V.
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
What I like about Zabbix that it is aimed at providing information infrastructure that monitors and services or processes, when you know that IT resources have and the information from these, you have time where they can best develop strategies and the...
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.
Stavros C.
Verified User in Construction
if very difficult to configure the servers
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
Has a way zabbix to work without agents?
2 comments
JO
Zabbix does not require agents to use, you can setup templates to use SNMP data, however you'll gain more insight by using the appropriate agent on the...Read more
What is Zabbix used for?
2 comments
RP
Overall infrastructure monitoring with lots of additional features like alerting, prediction monitoring.Read more
What can you monitor with Zabbix?
1 comment
LS
Every windows and linux device. You have to install an agent on all the devices you want to monitorRead more
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