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Datadog vs New Relic
Short answer: Pick Datadog if you want unified observability and security for cloud apps; pick New Relic if you want AI-aware full-stack observability. Both have a free plan.
DatadogMonitoring and security platform for cloud apps
New RelicObservability platform for apps and infrastructureWhich to pick
Pick Datadog if you want…
- Unified observability and security for cloud apps
- Comprehensive cloud monitoring
- Integrations with Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes or GitHub (on Datadog's list, not New Relic's)
Pick New Relic if you want…
- AI-aware full-stack observability
- Open-source observability platform
- Integrations with Prometheus, StatsD or eBPF (on New Relic's list, not Datadog's)
Datadog focuses on monitoring and security with a larger emphasis on cloud-native metrics, while New Relic adds AI-driven root-cause analysis and AI model monitoring.
Side by side
- What it is
- Datadog:Datadog is a cloud monitoring and security platform that provides observability across infrastructure, applications, logs, and security.
- New Relic:New Relic is an AI-powered observability platform that correlates telemetry across apps, infrastructure, and AI systems.
- Best for
- Datadog:Unified observability and security for cloud apps
- New Relic:AI-aware full-stack observability
- Who it’s for
- Datadog:Developers, IT ops, and security teams managing cloud-native workloads.
- New Relic:Engineering, SRE, DevOps, and product teams needing full-stack monitoring.
- Pricing
- Datadog:Freemium
- New Relic:Freemium
- Free plan or trial
- Datadog:Free trial
- New Relic:Free plan (Free)
- 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
- New Relic:Free $0
- Works with
- Datadog:Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps
- New Relic:OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, StatsD, eBPF, 800+ pre-built integrations
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.
New Relic features
- AI-driven root cause analysis. Automatically identifies the cause of incidents across services and AI agents.
- Unified data layer. Collects logs, metrics, traces, and digital experience data in one place.
- Infrastructure & Kubernetes monitoring. Provides real-time health views for hosts, containers, and K8s clusters.
- Digital experience monitoring. Session replay, browser, mobile, and synthetic checks to track user friction.
- AI model monitoring. Tracks model performance, cost, and hallucinations with agentic tracing.
- Security & compliance. Vulnerability management, FedRAMP/HIPAA eligibility, and log obfuscation.
- OpenTelemetry support. Ingests data via OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, StatsD, eBPF and other standards.
- Extensible integrations. 800+ pre-built integrations for cloud, SaaS, and on-prem services.
Datadog vs New Relic FAQ
What is the difference between Datadog and New Relic?+
New Relic: Focuses on full-stack observability with a strong emphasis on open-source integrations. Datadog focuses on monitoring and security with a larger emphasis on cloud-native metrics, while New Relic adds AI-driven root-cause analysis and AI model monitoring.
Should I use Datadog or New Relic?+
Pick Datadog if you want unified observability and security for cloud apps, comprehensive cloud monitoring or integrations with Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes or GitHub (on Datadog's list, not New Relic's). Pick New Relic if you want AI-aware full-stack observability, open-source observability platform or integrations with Prometheus, StatsD or eBPF (on New Relic's list, not Datadog's).
Is Datadog or New Relic free?+
Datadog has a free plan and paid plans. New Relic has a free plan and paid plans.
Do Datadog and New Relic integrate with the same tools?+
Partly. Both list OpenTelemetry. Datadog also lists Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes, GitHub, GitLab and 1 more; New Relic also lists Prometheus, StatsD, eBPF and 800+ pre-built integrations.
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