Grafana vs Datadog

Side-by-side comparison of Grafana and Datadog to help you choose the right tool.

Feature	Grafana	Datadog
Pricing	Free / $29-$299/mo	Free / $15-$34/host/mo
Rating	⭐ 4.7/5	⭐ 4.5/5
Categories	monitoring-observability	monitoring-observability, security-scanning
Custom dashboards	✅	❌
80+ data sources	✅	❌
Alerting	✅	❌
Grafana Loki	✅	❌
Grafana Tempo	✅	❌
Grafana Cloud	✅	❌
APM & tracing	❌	✅
Infrastructure monitoring	❌	✅
Log management	❌	✅
Real User Monitoring	❌	✅
Synthetics	❌	✅
Security monitoring	❌	✅

Open-source analytics and monitoring dashboards

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Cloud-scale monitoring and security platform

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