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| Attribute | Datadog | Sentry |
|---|---|---|
| Type | tool | tool |
| Summary | Datadog is a cloud-native observability platform providing APM monitoring, infrastructure visibility, and log analytics for distributed systems at scale. | Sentry is an error tracking and application monitoring platform that helps engineering teams detect, diagnose, and fix crashes and performance issues in real time across web, mobile, and backend applications. |
| Pricing | usage based · See vendor site — sample data | freemium · See vendor site — sample data |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | No | Yes |
| Editor rating | — | — |
| Categories | Monitoring & Observability, Infrastructure Management, Application Performance | Monitoring & Observability, Error Tracking, Application Performance |
| Key features | Distributed tracing and APM with auto-instrumentation for Java, Python, Node.js, Go, .NET, and Ruby · Infrastructure monitoring for hosts, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud services (verify on vendor site for latest supported platforms) · Log aggregation, parsing, and search with pattern detection and anomaly alerts · Synthetic monitoring for API and browser-based uptime and performance testing · Real User Monitoring (RUM) to track frontend performance and user interactions | Real-time error capture and grouping with automatic deduplication across stack traces · Session replay and breadcrumb trails showing user actions leading up to errors (verify on vendor site for current feature set) · Performance monitoring including transaction tracing, slow database queries, and API latency · Multi-language SDK support (Python, JavaScript, Java, Go, Ruby, PHP, C#, and others) · Alert routing and custom rules based on error frequency, new errors, or affected user count |
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