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Datadog

The broad, all-in-one monitoring platform.

signals
  • Traces
  • Metrics
  • Logs
  • Profiles
otlp ingest
via Collector / agent
storage
Managed
website
datadoghq.com ↗

Datadog covers infrastructure, APM, logs, RUM, security and more in one SaaS product. OpenTelemetry data can be sent through the Datadog Agent’s OTLP intake or the Collector’s Datadog exporter.

Best for

Organisations that want breadth and minimal operations.

Strengths

  • +Enormous integration catalogue
  • +Polished, unified UI across products
  • +Little to operate yourself

Consider

  • −Costs can climb with hosts, custom metrics and log volume
  • −Some features work best with the proprietary agent

Also handles these signals