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Datadog vs Keep
Short answer: Pick Datadog if you want unified observability and security for cloud apps; pick Keep if you want unified alert management with AI-driven correlation. Datadog has a free plan; Keep has a free plan, paid from $199/month.
Which to pick
Pick Datadog if you want…
- Unified observability and security for cloud apps
- Monitoring and security platform
- Integrations with Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes or OpenTelemetry (on Datadog's list, not Keep's)
Pick Keep if you want…
- Unified alert management with AI-driven correlation
- Open-source code (keephq/keep on GitHub)
- Integrations with AppDynamics, Datadog or Jira (on Keep's list, not Datadog's)
Side by side
- What it is
- Datadog:Datadog is a cloud monitoring and security platform that provides observability across infrastructure, applications, logs, and security.
- Keep:Keep is an open-source platform to create, manage, query and automate alerts across many systems.
- Best for
- Datadog:Unified observability and security for cloud apps
- Keep:Unified alert management with AI-driven correlation
- Who it’s for
- Datadog:Developers, IT ops, and security teams managing cloud-native workloads.
- Keep:SREs, operators, engineers and teams that need centralized alert management.
- Pricing
- Datadog:Freemium
- Keep:Freemium
- Starting price
- Datadog:—
- Keep:$199/month (Growth)
- Free plan or trial
- Datadog:Free trial
- Keep:Free plan (Startup)
- Plans
- Datadog:AI Credits $500 per 500 credits per month · Code Coverage $8 per committer per month · Log Management $0.10 per GB ingested per month
- Keep:Startup $0 / month · Growth $199 / month
- Open source
- Datadog:—
- Keep:Yes, 12,375 GitHub stars
- Works with
- Datadog:Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps
- Keep:AppDynamics, Datadog, Jira, PagerDuty, GitHub, CloudWatch, Grafana, GCP Monitoring
Datadog features
- Infrastructure Monitoring. Collects metrics, custom metrics, and alerts from servers, containers, and cloud services.
- Application Performance Monitoring. Tracks request latency, traces, and provides continuous profiling.
- Log Management. Ingests, parses, enriches and stores logs with flexible retention and alerting.
- Security Suite. Offers code security, vulnerability management, cloud security posture and SIEM.
- Synthetic & Real User Monitoring. Proactively tests user journeys and captures real-user performance data.
- AI-powered Bits Suite. AI agents for chat, investigation, code fixes, and custom workflow automation.
Keep features
- Bi-directional integrations. Connect to over 90 providers such as Datadog, Jira, PagerDuty and custom sources, keeping alerts in sync.
- Single pane of glass. Query, slice and analyze alerts with a common expression language and rule-based grouping.
- Workflow engine. Build YAML-based or UI workflows to enrich alerts, run Python scripts or update tickets.
- AI-driven AIOps (Enterprise). Correlate alerts using past incidents and a continuous feedback loop to reduce noise.
- Self-hosted or cloud deployment. Choose open-source self-hosting or a managed cloud service with optional enterprise features.
- RBAC & SSO (Enterprise). Control access with role-based permissions and SAML/SSO integration.
Datadog vs Keep FAQ
What is the difference between Datadog and Keep?+
Datadog is a full monitoring platform, while Keep focuses on alert aggregation and automation.
Should I use Datadog or Keep?+
Pick Datadog if you want unified observability and security for cloud apps, monitoring and security platform or integrations with Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes or OpenTelemetry (on Datadog's list, not Keep's). Pick Keep if you want unified alert management with AI-driven correlation, open-source code (keephq/keep on GitHub) or integrations with AppDynamics, Datadog or Jira (on Keep's list, not Datadog's).
Is Datadog or Keep free?+
Datadog has a free plan and paid plans. Keep has a free plan (Startup); paid plans start at $199/month (Growth).
Is Datadog or Keep open source?+
Keep is open source (keephq/keep on GitHub). DevHunt has no public source repository on record for Datadog.
Do Datadog and Keep integrate with the same tools?+
Partly. Both list GitHub. Datadog also lists Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, GitLab and 1 more; Keep also lists AppDynamics, Datadog, Jira, PagerDuty and 3 more.
On DevHunt
Based on each tool's website and DevHunt data. Details may change; check the official sites.