Datadog alternatives

4 tools to consider instead of Datadog, shown against it.

Datadog New Relic Dynatrace Honeycomb Chronosphere
Vendor Datadog, Inc. New Relic, Inc. Dynatrace, Inc. Honeycomb.io Chronosphere
Pricing model Usage-based Usage-based Usage-based Free tier + paid plans Quote only
Free tier Yes Yes No Yes No
Deployment Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud
Open source No No No No No
Best for Platform and SRE teams that want a single managed SaaS covering infra, APM, logs and RUM without operating their own backend. Teams that want a single ingest-priced data platform across APM, infra and logs without per-host math. Large enterprises wanting automated topology discovery and AI root-cause analysis across a complex, heterogeneous estate. Engineering teams debugging live production issues by slicing high-cardinality request data rather than watching fixed dashboards. Platform teams at scale trying to bring runaway metrics/log cardinality costs under control.
Pricing

Billed per product (infra hosts, APM hosts, log GB ingested plus indexed events, custom metrics) — costs compound as you enable more modules.

Infrastructure Pro $15/host/month
Infrastructure Enterprise $23/host/month
APM $31/host/month
Log Management ingest $0.10/GB

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Free up to 100GB/month and one full user; beyond that, priced per full-platform user seat plus per-GB data ingest overage.

Free $0
Standard - full user $99/user/month
Pro - full user $349/user/month
Data overage $0.40/GB

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Consumption pricing per hour for compute (hosts, pods, containers) plus per-GiB for logs/traces and per-1,000 for RUM sessions and synthetic actions.

Infrastructure Monitoring $0.04/host-hour
Full-Stack Monitoring $0.01/memory-GiB-hour
Log Management (pay-per-query) $0.20/GiB ingest
Real User Monitoring $2.25 per 1,000 sessions

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Free up to 20M events/month; paid plans meter by monthly event and metrics-datapoint volume, with unlimited seats on every tier.

Free $0
Pro from $150/month
Enterprise custom

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Custom-quoted based on metrics cardinality and log/trace ingest volume; no published self-serve tiers.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Features
  • Infrastructure and container monitoring with 800+ vendor integrations
  • Distributed tracing and APM with code-level flame graphs
  • Log management with unified tagging across metrics, traces and logs
  • Real user monitoring and session replay
  • Synthetic monitoring for API and browser checks
  • Custom dashboards and Watchdog anomaly detection
  • Cloud Security Management for posture and workload signals
  • APM with distributed tracing across 15+ languages
  • Infrastructure monitoring and Kubernetes visibility
  • Log management unified with traces and metrics in one query language (NRQL)
  • Browser and mobile real user monitoring
  • AI-assisted anomaly detection and incident correlation
  • Custom dashboards and alerting workflows
  • Serverless and OpenTelemetry-native ingestion
  • OneAgent auto-instrumentation with zero manual config
  • Smartscape topology mapping across the full stack
  • Davis AI for automated root-cause analysis
  • Unified log, metric, trace and RUM ingestion (OpenTelemetry-native)
  • Runtime application security and vulnerability analytics
  • Synthetic browser and HTTP monitoring
  • Kubernetes and cloud-native platform observability
  • Wide-event, high-cardinality query model (BubbleUp)
  • OpenTelemetry-native trace and event ingestion
  • Service Level Objectives with burn-alerts
  • Unlimited seats on every plan
  • Query-time correlation without predefined dashboards
  • Honeycomb telemetry pipeline for routing/filtering before storage
  • Cardinality analysis and control before data is stored
  • Prometheus-compatible metrics with long-term storage
  • Log and trace ingestion with cost attribution by team/service
  • Alerting and on-call routing integrations
  • Bring-your-own-cloud deployment option for regulated environments
  • Migration tooling from self-hosted Prometheus/Cortex/Thanos

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