G2 Vendor Directory

IBM Instana vs. Datadog

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

MetricIBM Instana

by IBM

Datadog

by Datadog

Overall rating4.44.4
Review count485746
Ease of use8.88.5
Ease of setup9.08.6
Quality of support8.88.6
Meets requirements8.89.0
NPS60.253760.136054
Small Business21.9%21.2%
Mid-Market41.6%45.4%
Enterprise36.5%33.4%
Total page views2,1955,703
Total LLM citations14,43452,604

IBM Instana

IBM Instana, now part of the Concert platform, discovers and maps all services, infrastructure, and their inter-dependencies automatically. Instana ingests all observability metrics, traces each request, profiles every process, and updates application dependency maps in real-time to deliver the context and actionable feedback needed by DevOps to optimize application performance, enable innovation and mitigate risk to help them add value and efficiency to the pipeline. IBM Instana is available on AWS Marketplace.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Monitoring
  • Real-time Monitoring
  • Monitoring Capabilities
  • Easy Setup
  • Insights

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