# Datadog vs Sumo Logic

| Attribute | Datadog | Sumo Logic |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 55.7 (64% (medium)) | 53.7 (61% (medium)) |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":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. | A cloud-based monitoring and analytics platform that collects telemetry data from various sources and provides dashboards, real-time alerts, and machine-learning-driven insights to help organizations troubleshoot infrastructure and application issues. |
| 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":false,"logs":true,"hosting":"both","metrics":true,"on_call":false,"tracing":true,"alerting":true,"dashboards":true,"otel_native":true}` |
| integrations.count | 7 | 20 |
| 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 Lambda"},{"name":"Azure"},{"name":"Docker"},{"name":"FluentD"},{"name":"JavaScript"},{"name":"Jenkins"},{"name":"Kinesis"},{"name":"Logback"},{"name":"Logstash"},{"name":"Log4J"},{"name":"Log4j2"},{"name":"Maven"},{"name":".NET"},{"name":"Okta"},{"name":"Scala"},{"name":"CollectD"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"StatsD"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry"},{"name":"Kubernetes"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"ios":true,"web":true,"android":true}` | `{"cli":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":true,"name":"Essentials","description":"Ideal for small-to-medium-sized DevOps and SecOps teams requiring ad-hoc investigation and troubleshooting","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise Suite","description":"Ideal for maturing security teams looking for real-time threat detection and investigation","contactSales":true}],"summary":"30-day free trial. Unlimited users. Predictable pricing.","currency":"USD","sourceUrl":"https://www.sumologic.com","retrievedAt":"2026-08-03T12:17:38.080Z","freeTrialDays":30}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | - |
| pricing.model | commercial | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | unknown | unknown |
| pricing.transparent | no | no |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.fedramp | - | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | yes | yes |
| security.pci | - | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |

## Capabilities (Observability Tools)

| Capability | Datadog | Sumo Logic |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **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 2026-09-01T17:16:58.121Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*