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Datadog vs qryn
Datadog is a hosted SaaS monitoring platform, while qryn is self-hosted open source with OLAP storage.
Which to pick
Pick Datadog if you want…
- Unified observability and security for cloud apps
- Hosted SaaS monitoring
- Integrations with Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes or GitHub (on Datadog's list, not qryn's)
Pick qryn if you want…
- All-in-one polyglot observability
- A free, open-source tool
- Integrations with Loki, Prometheus or Tempo (on qryn'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.
- qryn:qryn is an open-source polyglot observability stack with OLAP storage compatible with Loki, Prometheus, Tempo and more.
- Best for
- Datadog:Unified observability and security for cloud apps
- qryn:All-in-one polyglot observability
- Who it’s for
- Datadog:Developers, IT ops, and security teams managing cloud-native workloads.
- qryn:Developers and engineers needing unified logs, metrics, traces and profiling.
- Pricing
- Datadog:Freemium
- qryn:Open source
- 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
- qryn:—
- Open source
- Datadog:—
- qryn:Yes
- Works with
- Datadog:Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps
- qryn:Loki, Prometheus, Tempo, Pyroscope, OpenTelemetry, InfluxDB, Datadog, Elastic
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.
qryn features
- Polyglot compatibility. Drop-in support for Loki, Prometheus, Tempo, Pyroscope and other observability formats.
- OLAP engine. Powered by ClickHouse for fast, columnar queries across logs, metrics and traces.
- Familiar query languages. Use LogQL, PromQL and TempoQL to query and visualize data.
- Broad ingestion. Ingest data via OpenTelemetry, Loki, Prometheus, Tempo, Influx, Datadog, Elastic and more.
- Built-in Explorer & CLI. Explore data locally or via Grafana datasource compatibility.
- Self-hosted storage options. Store data in ClickHouse, DuckDB or InfluxDB IOx with optional S3 backing.
- Lightweight runtime. Runs on Bun, a fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime.
- Unmetered open source. Unlimited self-hosted deployments with a commercial cloud option for advanced features.
Datadog vs qryn FAQ
Is Datadog or qryn free?+
Datadog has a free plan and paid plans. qryn is free and open source.
Is Datadog or qryn open source?+
qryn is open source (metrico/qryn on GitHub). DevHunt has no public source repository on record for Datadog.
Do Datadog and qryn integrate with the same tools?+
Partly. Both list OpenTelemetry. Datadog also lists Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes, GitHub, GitLab and 1 more; qryn also lists Loki, Prometheus, Tempo, Pyroscope and 7 more.
On DevHunt
Based on each tool's website and DevHunt data. Details may change; check the official sites.