# Datadog

One observability platform for metrics, logs, traces and security, with dashboards that stay in sync with deploys.

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Website: https://www.datadoghq.com

- Category: [Developer utilities](https://softbests.com/category/developer-tools)
- Pricing: Freemium
- Platforms: Web, CLI

## Best for

Teams running distributed systems who need infrastructure, APM and logs correlated in one place across many services.

## Why it deserves attention

Datadog treats observability as one product line rather than four tools: infrastructure metrics, APM traces, log management, real user monitoring, synthetic checks, database and network monitoring, CI visibility and cloud security all share the same tags and dashboards, so a spike on a dashboard links straight to the trace that caused it. It auto-instruments most frameworks, ships hundreds of integrations, supports OpenTelemetry ingestion and deploys as SaaS with agents plus a CLI and API. Feature flags, incident response and error tracking round out the software delivery loop, and a free plan covers up to five hosts. The caveats: pricing is per host, per custom metric and per log volume, and bills grow quickly — teams routinely call it the most expensive tool in their stack — and the breadth of settings rewards dedicated ownership.

## Can replace

- New Relic

## Related and alternatives

- [Sentry](https://softbests.com/software/sentry)
- [Grafana](https://softbests.com/software/grafana)
- [Grafana](https://softbests.com/software/grafana)