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Comparison

Datadog vs Last9

On the evidence we track, Datadog leads this comparison with a composite score of 55/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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★Datadog55
Last948
Score
vioscaleAI score
Datadog55 / 100medium · 59%
Last948 / 100medium · 72%
Pricing
Free tier
Datadog✓
Last9✓
Model
Datadogcommercial
Last9free
Price level
Datadogunknown
Last9free
Transparent
Datadog✗
Last9✗
Integrations
Count
Datadog7
Last9100
Security
Disclosure policy
Datadog✓
Last9–
Gdpr
Datadog✓
Last9✓
Hipaa
Datadog–
Last9✓
Iso27001
Datadog✓
Last9–
Soc2
Datadog✓
Last9–
Reliability
Status page
Datadog✓
Last9✓
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Datadog6 items
Last97 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for observability tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Signals
Metrics
Datadog✓
Last9✓
Log management
Datadog✓
Last9✓
Distributed tracing
Datadog✓
Last9✓
Application performance monitoring
Datadog✓
Last9✓
Real-user monitoring
Datadog✓
Last9✓
Response
Alerting
Datadog✓
Last9✓
On-call / incident management
Datadog✓
Last9✓
Insight
Dashboards
Datadog✓
Last9✓
Standards
OpenTelemetry-native
Datadog✓
Last9✓
Deployment
Hosting
DatadogCloud only
Last9Cloud only

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Datadog

Leader

A cloud-based platform for monitoring application performance, logs, network activity, and user behavior, combined with security capabilities for threat detection and remediation.

Independently observed

Last9

Last9 enables teams to monitor applications and infrastructure through metrics, logs, and traces collected via OpenTelemetry and Prometheus. It offers service discovery, real-user performance monitoring, threshold-based and anomaly detection alerting, service-level objective tracking, and dashboarding for visibility across cloud infrastructure and applications.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Datadog

Leader
Subscription14-day trial
as of verify ↗

Last9

FreeFree tier
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Datadog✓
Last9✓
iOS
Datadog✓
Last9✓
Android
Datadog✓
Last9✓
CLI
Datadog✗
Last9✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Datadog✓
Last9✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

In common (1)
  • OpenTelemetry

Datadog

Leader
7 total - 6 not shared
  • Google Vertex AI
  • Google Cloud Security Command Center
  • Google Cloud SQL
  • Google Cloud Run
  • Dataflow
  • OpenLineage
Independently observed

Last9

76 total - 75 not shared
  • Slack
  • PagerDuty
  • Opsgenie
  • Jira
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Telegram
  • Zenduty
  • Google Chat
  • Flock
  • Webhook
  • GitHub Actions
  • ArgoCD
  • Buildkite
  • Jenkins
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • ECS
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • +51 more
Independently observed
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Datadog or Last9: which one depends on you

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Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.