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| Data Collection | Collects data with 1-second granularity, offering immediate and precise visibility into performance. | Typically collects data at 10-second granularity, offering less granularity for short-lived issues. |
| Integrations | 800+ integrations enable you to monitor practically everything | 200+ (mostly apps and cloud services). Custom integrations are possible but may require more effort and specialized knowledge to implement effectively. |
| Architecture | Decentralized architecture enables exceptional vertical and horizontal scalability while handling high data volume and velocity. Minimal traffic egress costs. | Primarily centralized, which means all data is sent to a central location for analysis. Leads to high egress costs. |
| Machine Learning | Unsupervised ML and anomaly detection for every single metric. By default. | Utilizes machine learning but often requires additional setup and configuration. |
| Alerts | Hundreds of out-of-the-box alerts that enable users to get immediate value and minimizes configuration burden. | Customizable, rule-based alerts. highly customizable but require manual setup, making it more labor-intensive to create alerts for specific conditions or metrics. |
| Cost of Ownership | Cost effective and transparent pricing. Zero hidden costs. | High cost and ambigious pricing often leads to a skewed cost to value ratio. Difficult to predict the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) over time. |
Netdata offers 1-second granularity for all metrics that allow it, enabling the capture of high-fidelity data. This is crucial for troubleshooting real-time issues and quickly identifying emerging anomalies, ensuring more precise monitoring and faster response times. This fine level of detail is crucial for detecting and resolving short-lived issues, a significant advantage over Datadog’s typical 10-second data granularity.
Netdata’s decentralized architecture facilitates exceptional scalability, both vertically and horizontally. It efficiently handles high volumes of data with minimal traffic egress costs, a notable advantage over Datadog’s primarily centralized model where the egress costs can quickly add up.
Unsupervised machine learning and anomaly detection are applied to every single metric in Netdata, out of the box . This provides a more streamlined experience compared to Datadog, where machine learning capabilities often require configuration.
Netdata provides a suite of out-of-the-box alerts tailored to immediate monitoring needs, along with multiple notification methods. This feature stands out against Datadog’s powerful but configuration-intensive alerting system.
Netdata offers transparent pricing for SaaS and on-prem and comes with zero hidden costs. This contrasts with Datadog’s variable pricing, which can fluctuate based on factors like number of hosts and volume of events. In practise Netdata is often an order of magnitude or more cost effective than Datadog.
Netdata offers a significantly more cost-effective solution, especially for large-scale monitoring. It provides transparent pricing with unlimited metrics monitoring, without differentiation in metric types. Datadog, on the other hand, has varied pricing tiers based on the volume of data, the category of metrics, the number of hosts, and many hidden factors which can add up to become significant for extensive monitoring needs.
Netdata excels in providing real-time, high-resolution monitoring, delivering metrics updates every second. Datadog also offers real-time monitoring but with a focus on aggregated data over slightly longer intervals, which may not be as granular as Netdata’s offering.
Yes, unlike Datadog, Netdata is capable of monitoring both cloud-based and on-premise environments. Netdata offers extensive out-of-the-box support for various systems.
Netdata is often favored for its ease of setup and user-friendly approach, particularly suitable for beginners. Datadog, while offering powerful features, might require more initial configuration and a steeper learning curve to fully leverage its capabilities.
Yes, please reach out to us and we would be happy to help you migrate your observability needs to Netdata.
