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Datadog vs Terraform: Which is a better fit?

Updated on January 12th, 2025
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Summary
Features in Cloud Management
28
Best performer
40
  • Activity Tracking
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Anomaly Detection
13
40
  • Database Support
User satisfaction
4.6
User reviews301
Ease of use
4.2
Functionality
4.5
Value for money
4.1
Customer support
4.3
4.8
User reviews44
Ease of use
4.3
Functionality
4.6
Value for money
4.8
Customer support
4.2
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Free trial
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Free version
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Datadog is the monitoring, security and analytics platform for developers, IT operations teams, security engineers and business users in the cloud age.

Cloud-based infrastructure automation platform which helps enterprises develop DevOps infrastructure through multi-cloud adoption, efficient application delivery and application security.

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Sawan J
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5.0

Sawan: Hi, I'm Sawan. I'm the Director of Information Security at a privacy business. I would give Datadog a rating five stars. Prior to using Datadog, I've had a lot of experience with different types of observability in monitoring solutions such as Splunk and built-in tools in cloud, such as Azure Sentinel and AWS Security Hub. I find Datadog very easy to use because it is compatible with all of these sources and easy to implement. They often join companies where they need to address gaps and improve their security posture very quickly. Datadog is easy to implement where there is a lack of skills within the organization and easy to scale, also with all of its integrations and very clear billing structure. Integration for Datadog is very easy because it has integrations out of the box from the minute you subscribe to the platform for all leading platforms, including secondary platforms as well. Its integrations are growing all the time. The integrations are quick to implement and done within minutes. The recommendations I have is that you aggregate to correlate and get good insights. When you connect all of these fast integrations into Datadog, you'll get a lot of information. A lot of information becomes noisy, so the key thing to do is to stop at those stages after integrations, and clarify what you want to see and cut out what you do not want to see, so therefore you can move at pace and have a very clean dashboard at the end.

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Datadog

Top Features
28/40
  • Backup and Recovery
  • Change Management
  • Cloud Encryption
  • Configuration Management
  • Database Support
  • Data Integration
  • Inventory Management
  • Multitenancy
  • Patch Management
  • Security Management
  • Self Service Portal
  • Service Catalog
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Tracking
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Anomaly Detection
  • API
  • Application Management
  • Audit Management
  • Capacity Analytics
  • Compliance Management
  • Cost Management
  • Data Import/Export
  • Data Migration
  • Data Storage Management
  • Data Visualization
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Event Logs
  • Monitoring
  • Multi-Cloud Management
  • Network Monitoring
  • Performance Analysis
  • Real-Time Monitoring
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Resource Management
  • Search/Filter
  • Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • User Management
  • Workflow Management
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Terraform

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Datadog

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Terraform

  • Best Value Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
    Software (2022)
Datadog
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Terraform
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Datadog
  • By Datadog
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 2010
Terraform
  • By HashiCorp
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 2012
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