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Datadog
Datadog
Commercial
Cloud / SaaS
Enterprise
Unified monitoring & security for cloud apps.
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New Relic
New Relic
Commercial
Free Tier
Cloud / SaaS
Full-stack observability with usage-based pricing.
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| Attribute | ||
|---|---|---|
| Pricing |
From
$15/host/mo, modular add-ons
|
Free
up to 100 GB/mo data ingest; paid from $0.30/GB after
|
| Free tier / OSS |
14-day
trial, limited free plan
|
Yes
— generous free tier (100 GB/mo + 1 full user)
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| License |
Commercial
(SaaS)
|
Commercial
(SaaS)
|
| Testing type | Monitoring / APM | Monitoring / APM |
| Languages / SDKs | N/A (agent-based) | N/A (agent-based; agents in Java, Python, Node, .NET, Go, Ruby, PHP) |
| Supported platforms | SaaS, agent runs on all major OSes/k8s | SaaS; agents on all major OSes, Kubernetes, serverless |
| Parallel testing | N/A | N/A |
| Speed | N/A | N/A |
| Key integrations | 700+ vendor integrations | 500+ quickstarts including AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry |
| Learning curve | Easy | Easy |
| Community / Support |
Large
enterprise user base
|
Large
— New Relic Explorers Hub
|
| Maintained by | Datadog Inc. | New Relic Inc. |
| First released | 2010 | 2008 |
| Latest version | See website | See website |
| Best suited for | Enterprises wanting a single observability vendor | Teams wanting usage-based full-stack observability |
| Official site | www.datadoghq.com ↗ | newrelic.com ↗ |
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