Datadog vs Elastic

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.

	Datadog	Elastic
What it says it does	The integrated platform for monitoring & security datadoghq.com	Elastic is a technology company. elastic.co
Starting at	Not observed	Not observed
Platforms	Android, iOS datadoghq.com	Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, Windows, macOS, AWS, Alibaba, Azure, GCP, Google Cloud elastic.co
Deployment	Not observed	Elastic Cloud Hosted, Elastic Cloud Serverless, self-managed, on-premises, Self-managed Elasticsearch, Hosted, Serverless elastic.co
Integrations	Ably, Abnormal Security, Active Directory, ActiveMQ, ActiveMQ XML, Adaptive Shield, DNSFilter, Docker Daemon, GitHub, Kubernetes, Slack, MongoDB, MySQL, Postgres, Redis, Terraform datadoghq.com	AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, BigQuery, GKE, applications, cloud-native infrastructure, content repositories, security activity and context elastic.co
Compliance	Not observed	HIPAA, SOC 2 elastic.co
Plans	Flex, Flex Starter, Ingest, Standard datadoghq.com	Limited, Base, Enhanced, Premium, Enterprise, Platinum elastic.co
Open source	Not observed	Yes elastic.co
Models supported	Claude datadoghq.com	Not observed
Pricing basis	Per 500 credits, per month* datadoghq.com	Resource based pricing elastic.co
Customers (their claim)	Forbes adopts Datadog to enable observability across its entire technology organization datadoghq.com	Not observed

Where they differ

Elastic’s pages state that it is open source; AirStack has not found that on Datadog’s pages.
Elastic claims HIPAA on its own pages; Datadog’s pages read by AirStack do not mention it.
Elastic claims SOC 2 on its own pages; Datadog’s pages read by AirStack do not mention it.

Prices are list prices as written on each pricing page; check them before you buy. Nothing here is a ranking or a recommendation.