# Datadog vs Middleware

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Middleware

| Attribute | Datadog | Middleware |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 55.2 (63% (medium)) | 71.2 (74% (medium)) |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | A cloud-based observability and security service that integrates infrastructure monitoring, application performance tracking, log analysis, and real-user session monitoring. Designed to help teams detect issues, troubleshoot problems, and secure applications by providing a single view across metrics, traces, logs, and user interactions. | A unified monitoring solution that ingests logs, metrics, and traces from infrastructure and applications, then uses artificial intelligence to identify problems and suggest automated fixes. |
| features.capabilities | `{"apm":true,"rum":true,"logs":true,"hosting":"cloud","metrics":true,"on_call":true,"tracing":true,"alerting":true,"dashboards":true,"otel_native":true}` | `{"apm":true,"rum":true,"logs":true,"hosting":"cloud","metrics":true,"tracing":true,"alerting":true,"dashboards":true,"otel_native":true}` |
| integrations.count | 7 | 450 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Google Vertex AI"},{"name":"Google Cloud Security Command Center"},{"name":"Google Cloud SQL"},{"name":"Google Cloud Run"},{"name":"Dataflow"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry"},{"name":"OpenLineage"}]` | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"Google Cloud"},{"name":"Stripe"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry"},{"name":"Amazon S3"},{"name":"Azure Blob Storage"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"ios":true,"web":true,"android":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","currency":"USD","sourceUrl":"https://www.datadoghq.com","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T11:06:35.140Z","freeTrialDays":14}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free Trial","summary":"Free 14-day trial with unlimited data ingestion","features":["Unlimited data ingestion","Unlimited RUM sessions","Unlimited synthetic checks","10 browser test runs","Unlimited users","Community support"],"components":[{"kind":"one_time","amount":0,"currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"retention":"14 days","rum_sessions":"unlimited","browser_tests":"10","data_ingestion":"unlimited","synthetic_checks":"unlimited"}},{"free":false,"name":"Pay As You Go","summary":"$0.30/GB for logs/metrics/traces, $1 per 1K RUM sessions, $1 per 5K synthetic checks, $10 per 1K browser test runs","features":["Error detection and solving with OpsAI","Ingestion control and data pipeline management","SSO and security features","Dedicated Slack/MS Teams support channel","Logs aggregation and analysis","Infrastructure monitoring","Application performance monitoring","Synthetic testing","Browser testing","Real user monitoring","Live alerting","Custom dashboards","User-facing status page"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"gb"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.3,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1000,"unit":"rum_sessions"},"kind":"metered","amount":1,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":5000,"unit":"synthetic_checks"},"kind":"metered","amount":1,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1000,"unit":"browser_test_runs"},"kind":"metered","amount":10,"currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"retention":"30 days"}},{"free":false,"name":"Custom","summary":"Custom pricing with volume discounts and enterprise support","features":["All Pay As You Go features","Volume discounts","Multi-year contract options","Custom data retention policies","Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) deployment","24/7 premium support","Dedicated account team","OpsAI root cause analysis","Automatic issue detection and fix suggestions","Automatic PR generation"],"contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"retention":"custom"}}],"summary":"From $0.30/GB for logs. Free 14-day trial available. Pay-as-you-go or custom enterprise plans.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://middleware.io/pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T23:02:15.448Z","freeTrialDays":14,"startingPrice":{"amount":0.3,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | unknown | low |
| pricing.transparent | no | yes |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.iso27001 | yes | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |

## Capabilities (Observability Tools)

| Capability | Datadog | Middleware |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Signals** |  |  |
| Metrics | ✓ | ✓ |
| Log management | ✓ | ✓ |
| Distributed tracing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Application performance monitoring | ✓ | ✓ |
| Real-user monitoring | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Response** |  |  |
| Alerting | ✓ | ✓ |
| On-call / incident management | ✓ | - |
| **Insight** |  |  |
| Dashboards | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Standards** |  |  |
| OpenTelemetry-native | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud only | Cloud only |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T17:49:22.920Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*