Looking for an alternative to Datadog? Whether you need better pricing, different features, or a tool that fits your workflow, we've compared 4 recorded observability & monitoring options below. These prices are dated snapshots. Check current vendor offers before buying.
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| Alternative | Starting Price | Free Plan? | Key Differentiator |
|---|---|---|---|
| | $19/mo | Yes | Metrics, logs, traces and profiles recorded |
| | $130/mo | Yes | Distributed tracing and custom fields recorded |
| | $349/mo | Yes | User and ingestion units recorded separately |
| | $26/mo | Yes | Error and tracing functions recorded |
Grafana Cloud records a base tier and separate telemetry, host-hour, session, execution and user charges. Its cloud service and self-hosted components require separate evaluations.
Honeycomb records event-based tracing, custom fields and shared querying with free, Pro and Enterprise tiers. The starting price and maximum listed event capacity do not establish one fixed bundle.
New Relic records user-access tiers alongside data-ingestion charges. Free allowances, Core users, full-platform users and consumption-based options have different scopes.
Sentry records error monitoring, tracing and related event quotas. Paid tiers list shared user access with separate overage and optional AI terms.
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