# Azure Application Insights vs Datadog APM

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Datadog APM

| Attribute | Azure Application Insights | Datadog APM |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 69.1 (27% (low)) | 70.4 (46% (low)) |
| deployment.options | - | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | - | Application Performance Monitoring that provides end-to-end visibility into your stack's health and performance, integrated with comprehensive observability and security capabilities. |
| features.capabilities | - | `{"rum":true,"hosting":"cloud","otel_support":"native","slo_tracking":true,"db_monitoring":true,"code_profiling":true,"error_analytics":true,"anomaly_detection":true,"distributed_tracing":true,"auto_instrumentation":true}` |
| integrations.count | - | 1,000 |
| integrations.list | - | `[{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"Azure"},{"name":"Google Cloud"},{"name":"Oracle Cloud"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"Red Hat OpenShift"},{"name":"Pivotal Platform"},{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"SAP"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry"}]` |
| market.availability | - | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | - | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing.model | commercial | commercial |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | - | yes |
| security.fedramp | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | yes | yes |
| security.pci | yes | - |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |

## Capabilities (APM Tools)

| Capability | Azure Application Insights | Datadog APM |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Instrumentation** |  |  |
| Auto-instrumentation | - | ✓ |
| Distributed tracing | - | ✓ |
| **Insight** |  |  |
| Service map | - | - |
| Code / continuous profiling | - | ✓ |
| Database monitoring | - | ✓ |
| Error analytics | - | ✓ |
| Real-user monitoring | - | ✓ |
| SLO / error-budget tracking | - | ✓ |
| **Intelligence** |  |  |
| Anomaly / root-cause AI | - | ✓ |
| **Standards** |  |  |
| OpenTelemetry support | - | OTel-native |
| **Core** |  |  |
| Language agents | - | - |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | - | Cloud only |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-08-07T00:02:17.868Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*