Datadog vs Grafana Pricing Comparison

Datadog is a monitoring platform known for its ease of use due to built-in dashboards and a large number of integrations with included functionalities. However, a common Datadog complaint is that the pricing structure is difficult to understand and expensive. Grafana is primarily a visualization and observability platform but when paired with Grafana’s other open source tools (Mimir, Loki, and Tempo), it forms a complete observability stack that handles not only metrics but also logs and traces. Grafana also offers Grafana Cloud, a managed service that includes the observability stack and additional features, making it a strong competitor to the monitoring and observability features of Datadog for a fraction of the price.

Datadog is an all-in-one platform with a range of integrated services, such as metric visualization, logs, and Application Performance Monitoring (APM). Its seamlessness across services and number of integrations, each with built-in integration-specific functionality makes it a great option for organizations looking for a unified, out-of-the-box observability solution.

Grafana is highly customizable, and while it specializes in metric visualization, it achieves functionality similar to that of Datadog by integrating it with its full observability stack. One of the most popular Grafana observability stacks is made up of other Grafana tools to form the LGTM stack. It includes:

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