G2 Vendor Directory

Amazon CloudWatch vs. Datadog

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAmazon CloudWatch

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Datadog

by Datadog

Overall rating4.34.4
Review count403746
Ease of use8.48.5
Ease of setup8.78.6
Quality of support8.68.6
Meets requirements8.89.0
NPS54.26997260.136054
Small Business28.9%21.2%
Mid-Market30.1%45.4%
Enterprise41.0%33.4%
Total page views4615,703
Total LLM citations71052,604

Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon CloudWatch is a comprehensive monitoring and observability service designed to provide real-time insights into AWS resources, on-premises servers, hybrid environments, and applications. It enables users to collect and track metrics, monitor log files, set alarms, and automatically react to changes in their AWS resources. By offering a unified view of operational health, CloudWatch helps organizations optimize application performance, manage resource utilization, and maintain system reliability.

Pros

  • Log Management
  • Integrations
  • Alerting Systems
  • Monitoring
  • Real-time Monitoring
  • Alerting System

Datadog

Datadog is the monitoring, security and analytics platform for developers, IT operations teams, security engineers and business users in the cloud age. The SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring and log management to provide unified, real-time observability of our customers' entire technology stack.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Monitoring
  • Real-time Monitoring
  • Features
  • Analytics
  • Integrations