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Datadog vs Lightrun
Datadog focuses on monitoring and security dashboards, while Lightrun adds live code-level context without redeployment.
DatadogMonitoring and security platform for cloud apps
LightrunConnecting developers to their live applications Which to pick
Pick Datadog if you want…
- Unified observability and security for cloud apps
- Monitoring & security platform
- Integrations with Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes or OpenTelemetry (on Datadog's list, not Lightrun's)
Pick Lightrun if you want…
- Live observability for enterprise applications
- Integrations with Slack, Bitbucket or Jira (on Lightrun'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.
- Lightrun:Lightrun adds live logs, metrics and traces to running code for real-time observability and AI-agent troubleshooting.
- Best for
- Datadog:Unified observability and security for cloud apps
- Lightrun:Live observability for enterprise applications
- Who it’s for
- Datadog:Developers, IT ops, and security teams managing cloud-native workloads.
- Lightrun:Support, SRE, platform engineering and developers needing live runtime context.
- Pricing
- Datadog:Freemium
- Lightrun:Freemium
- 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
- Lightrun:Free Plan $0
- Works with
- Datadog:Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps
- Lightrun:Slack, GitHub, Bitbucket, Jira, ServiceNow, Azure DevOps, IntelliJ, PyCharm
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.
Lightrun features
- Live runtime evidence. Collect logs, metrics, traces and dumps from code without redeploying.
- AI-driven investigation. Conversational assistant triages incidents and suggests remediations.
- Multi-instance debugging. Debug Kubernetes, serverless and other instances in real time.
- IDE integrations. Plugins for IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm, VS Code and other editors.
- Enterprise system connectors. Integrates with SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Jira, Azure DevOps and more.
- Role-based access & SSO. RBAC, SSO, SCIM and SAML support for secure team collaboration.
- Audit & compliance. Full audit logs, ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR and HIPAA aligned security.
- Custom connector setup. Unlimited APM, telemetry and third-party integrations via custom connectors.
Datadog vs Lightrun FAQ
Is Datadog or Lightrun free?+
Datadog has a free plan and paid plans. Lightrun has a free plan (Free Plan) and paid plans.
Do Datadog and Lightrun integrate with the same tools?+
Partly. Both list GitHub and Azure DevOps. Datadog also lists Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry and GitLab; Lightrun also lists Slack, Bitbucket, Jira, ServiceNow and 6 more.
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