Microsoft Azure vs Datadog
What each one’s own pages state, side by side. Every value is a quote AirStack found on that product’s pages; “Not observed” means AirStack has not found it on that product’s pages.
| Microsoft Azure | Datadog | |
|---|---|---|
| What it says it does | Cloud Computing Services | Microsoft Azure azure.microsoft.com | The integrated platform for monitoring & security datadoghq.com |
| Starting at | Not observed | Not observed |
| Platforms | Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu azure.microsoft.com | Android, iOS datadoghq.com |
| Integrations | Not observed | Ably, Abnormal Security, Active Directory, ActiveMQ, ActiveMQ XML, Adaptive Shield, DNSFilter, Docker Daemon, GitHub, Kubernetes, Slack, MongoDB, MySQL, Postgres, Redis, Terraform datadoghq.com |
| Free plan | Yes azure.microsoft.com | Not observed |
| Plans | Azure reservations, Azure savings plan for compute, Azure azure.microsoft.com | Flex, Flex Starter, Ingest, Standard datadoghq.com |
| Models supported | Not observed | Claude datadoghq.com |
| Pricing basis | pay only for the cloud resources you use and scale as you grow. azure.microsoft.com | Per 500 credits, per month* datadoghq.com |
| Customers (their claim) | Not observed | Forbes adopts Datadog to enable observability across its entire technology organization datadoghq.com |
Where they differ
- Microsoft Azure’s pages state a free plan; AirStack has not found that on Datadog’s pages.
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