Best Datadog alternatives
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Last updated November 13, 2026
Top Datadog alternatives on usedby: CircleCI, New Relic, and incident.io. Datadog has 60 public customers on usedby. 10 other tools of the same or a competing category, from other vendors, have public customers.Latest check Nov 13, 2026: 453 of 454 public lines checked. Every public proof counts as a customer, from case studies to job posts. The proof level stays visible: confirmed (a case study, a press release), observed (the vendor’s customer page), signal (a job post, the weakest proof).
Ranked by public customers
Tools of the same or a competing category, from another vendor. Open a row for its customers, sources and facts; shared customers never set the order.
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New Relic77customers77 customers: 30 confirmed, 45 observed.
Customers include Verizon, Chegg, and Shutterstock.
1 company is listed on both New Relic and Datadog.
Free trial or free plan available. Source
Latest capture across its sources: Nov 12, 2026.
We made a decision to utilize New Relic to the fullest extent. And we haven't had any regrets.
Tor H. Wiig, IT Service Monitoring Manager, Elmera Group, Elmera Group. Source 3
incident.ioIncident management platform with on-call, status pages and AI agents that investigate root causes.49customers49 customers: 34 confirmed, 15 observed.
Customers include Netflix, Etsy, and Buffer.
2 companies are listed on both incident.io and Datadog.
Pricing: free plan and paid tiers. Source Free trial or free plan available. Source
Source: incident.io, latest capture Nov 11, 2026.
We brought in incident.io for roughly what we were paying for PagerDuty. Except now we had the full incident management lifecycle. That was the big ROI.
Paul Bowden, Director of Engineering, Built. Source 4
HarnessAI software delivery platform with agents for CI/CD pipelines, security testing, runtime protection and cloud cost.45customers45 customers: 37 confirmed, 7 observed, 1 job-post signal.
Customers include Experian, Twilio, and Morningstar.
1 company is listed on both Harness and Datadog.
Free trial or free plan available. Source
Source: harness.io, latest capture Nov 11, 2026.
One of the big selling points of Harness is the fact that we can implement templates that allow us to offer the developer a fully compliant, fully validated, robust set of processes that the teams can just use. They can focus on delivering software and features to our customers.
Kyle Binns, Senior Manager of SRE, Morningstar, Morningstar. Source 5
Sentry43customers43 customers: 25 confirmed, 13 observed.
Customers include Reddit, Anthropic, and Cloudflare.
Largest industry on usedby: Artificial Intelligence, 10 customers.
1 company is listed on both Sentry and Datadog.
Free trial or free plan available. Source
Latest capture across its sources: Nov 12, 2026.
Sentry is the starting point for resolving issues. Rich context about the error keeps the team from digging through logs to diagnose an issue.
Don Brown, Principal Architect, Reciprocity. Source 6
Honeycomb30customers30 customers: 15 confirmed, 15 observed.
Customers include Booking.com, Duolingo, and Intercom.
No company is listed on both Honeycomb and Datadog yet.
Latest capture across its sources: Nov 13, 2026.
It required constant vigilance about what we were sending to ensure our logging wouldn’t stop whenever we hit the ingest tariff limit. We had this persistent feeling that we wouldn’t be able to scale that constant oversight as our company grew.
Josh Parsons, Software Development Engineer II, Amperity. Source 7
ResolveAI IT support platform for faster incident resolution24customers24 customers: 6 confirmed, 18 observed.
Customers include Salesforce, Coinbase, and Doordash.
3 companies are listed on both Resolve and Datadog.
Source: resolve.ai, latest capture Nov 13, 2026.
ResolveAI allowed us to move from hours to minutes for investigations in many incidents. We pull fewer engineers into war rooms, on-call is materially better, and that translates directly to advertiser trust and revenue protection for a billion-dollar ads business.
Shahrooz Ansari, Sr. Director of Engineering, Doordash. Source 8
BigPandaAgentic AI for IT operations that correlates alerts, finds root cause and automates incident triage.21customers21 customers: 9 confirmed, 12 observed.
Customers include Autodesk, Bungie, and Cambia Health Solutions.
2 companies are listed on both BigPanda and Datadog.
Source: bigpanda.io, latest capture Nov 8, 2026.
Integrating BigPanda’s [Alert Intelligence] into our NOC has drastically reduced our reliance on manual monitoring.
John Hamilton, Sr., Director of TechOps at Bungie, Bungie. Source 9
PagerDuty11customers11 customers: 8 confirmed, 2 observed.
Customers include SAP, Spotify, and Vodafone.
1 company is listed on both PagerDuty and Datadog.
Latest capture across its sources: Nov 13, 2026.
Mean-time-to-action has dropped from multiple minutes to seconds.
Senior Engineering Manager, Cloudflare, Senior Engineering Manager, Cloudflare. Source 10
TraversalAI SRE that triages alerts, finds root causes and helps prevent incidents across enterprise production systems.10customers10 customers: 7 confirmed, 3 observed.
Customers include PepsiCo, DigitalOcean, and ClikIT.
No company is listed on both Traversal and Datadog yet.
Source: traversal.com, latest capture Nov 12, 2026.
We took real customer incidents that used to take our engineers an hour or more to resolve — and Traversal’s agents were identifying root causes in under a minute.
Bratin Saha, Ex. CTO & CPO, DigitalOcean, DigitalOcean. Source
For us, CircleCI is the most important piece that bridges development and deployment; we couldn’t live without it.Datadog and its top alternatives, side by side
Public customers at every proof level, and what each vendor states on its own pages. “Not checked yet” means usedby has no verified value; the vendor may publish it.
| Tool | Customers | Largest industry | Pricing | Free trial | Security |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Datadog | 60 | No clear lead | published paid tiers Source | Yes Source | ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018 and 5 more Source |
 CircleCI | 84 | No clear lead | free plan and paid tiers Source | Yes Source | FedRAMP Tailored, SOC 2 Type II Source |
| New Relic | 77 | No clear lead | Not checked yet | Yes Source | Observability Platform on AWS, Azure and first-party infrastructure. Excludes Pixie Community Cloud and Pixie Auto-telemetry on GCP · SOC 2 Type II Source |
| incident.io | 49 | No clear lead | free plan and paid tiers Source | Yes Source | SOC 2 Type II Source |
| Harness | 45 | No clear lead | Not checked yet | Yes Source | ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018 Source |
| Sentry | 43 | Artificial Intelligence | Not checked yet | Yes Source | SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 Source |
Best Datadog alternative by industry
In the industries where Datadog has the most customers, the alternative with the most customers of its own there (at least three).
- Artificial IntelligenceSentry10 customersDatadog: 11
- DevTools & InfrastructureCircleCI10 customersDatadog: 3
- Media & PublishingNew Relic7 customersDatadog: 3
- Fintech & Paymentsincident.io7 customersDatadog: 2
Often used with Datadog
Tools of other categories that Datadog customers also use. They do another job: they are not alternatives.
DatabricksData platforms & analytics8 shared customers
CursorAI coding assistants & agents7 shared customers
ClaudeAI assistants5 shared customers
ElevenLabsVoice & audio generation5 shared customers
hireEZRecruiting5 shared customers
IntercomHelp desks5 shared customers
Questions about Datadog alternatives
What are the best Datadog alternatives?
Ranked by their public customers on usedby: CircleCI (84 customers), New Relic (77 customers), and incident.io (49 customers). See who uses CircleCI.
Which Datadog alternatives offer a free trial?
CircleCI, New Relic, and incident.io offer a free trial or a free plan, according to their own pricing pages.
What is the best Datadog alternative for Artificial Intelligence companies?
Sentry, with 10 customers in Artificial Intelligence on usedby. Datadog has 11 there. Artificial Intelligence companies on usedby.
What is the best Datadog alternative for DevTools & Infrastructure companies?
CircleCI, with 10 customers in DevTools & Infrastructure on usedby. Datadog has 3 there. DevTools & Infrastructure companies on usedby.
Which tools are used with Datadog?
Companies that use Datadog also use Databricks (8 shared), Cursor (7 shared), Claude (5 shared), ElevenLabs (5 shared), hireEZ (5 shared), and Intercom (5 shared). These tools do another job: they are not alternatives.
How does usedby rank Datadog alternatives?
Only tools of the same or a competing category, from another vendor, count. They are ranked by their public customers at every proof level, job posts included; a tie goes to the stronger proofs (more confirmed, then more observed). Each tool shows its mix: confirmed (a case study, a press release), observed (the vendor’s customer page), signal (a job post, the weakest proof). Shared customers are shown for information and never set the order. Tools of other categories that the same companies use are listed apart, as tools used with Datadog. usedby does not publish departures, so no company is shown switching from Datadog to another tool.