Datadog vs Prometheus

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

Feature	Datadog	Prometheus
Pricing	Free / $15-$34/host/mo	Free
Rating	⭐ 4.5/5	⭐ 4.5/5
Categories	monitoring-observability, security-scanning	monitoring-observability
APM & tracing	✅	❌
Infrastructure monitoring	✅	❌
Log management	✅	❌
Real User Monitoring	✅	❌
Synthetics	✅	❌
Security monitoring	✅	❌
Time-series DB	❌	✅
PromQL	❌	✅
Alerting	❌	✅
Service discovery	❌	✅
Pull model	❌	✅
Exporters	❌	✅

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