# Datadog vs Netdata

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Netdata

| Attribute | Datadog | Netdata |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 55.7 (64% (medium)) | 75.6 (73% (medium)) |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"air_gapped":true,"self_hosted":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. | Real-time infrastructure monitoring platform with zero-config observability and per-second metrics. Includes AI-driven investigation, root cause analysis, and transparent per-node pricing. |
| 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,"logs":true,"hosting":"both","metrics":true,"alerting":true,"dashboards":true}` |
| integrations.count | 7 | 800 |
| 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":"AWS"},{"name":"Azure"},{"name":"GCP"},{"name":"HashiCorp Vault"},{"name":"SNMP"},{"name":"NetFlow"},{"name":"sFlow"},{"name":"IPFIX"},{"name":"DNS"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"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":"subscription","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Homelabs","summary":"$90/year","features":["Per-second metrics","ML-powered alerts","Unlimited dashboards"],"commitment":"annual","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":90,"period":"year","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Homelab monitoring with per-second metrics, ML-powered alerts, and unlimited dashboards","contactSales":false}],"summary":"$90/year for homelabs, per-node pricing for enterprise, free trial available","currency":"USD","freeTier":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.netdata.cloud/categories/pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T16:57:25.786Z","startingPrice":{"amount":90,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["year"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | no |
| pricing.model | commercial | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | unknown | high |
| pricing.transparent | no | yes |
| reliability.sla_pct | - | 99.9 |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | yes | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |

## Capabilities (Observability Tools)

| Capability | Datadog | Netdata |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **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 + self-hosted |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T17:04:35.218Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*