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Sumo Logic vs. Datadog

What's better for APM and observability?

There’s only one unified cloud-native solution for all your security and observability needs. Find out why our unified platform delivers greater visibility than Datadog.


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OBSERVABILITY SOLUTION COMPARISON

Sumo Logic vs. Datadog

What's better for APM and observability?

There’s only one unified cloud-native solution for all your security and observability needs. Find out why our unified platform delivers greater visibility than Datadog.


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Why is Sumo Logic a better alternative than Datadog?

Get full visibility into your applications and infrastructure without sacrificing fidelity due to sampling, data silos, or overages with our unified observability and security platform.

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Application performance monitoring
Dynamic scalability
Advanced troubleshooting across all telemetry
Log search (query language)
APM/tracing and span analytics
Advanced security
(Security analytics + SIEM + SOAR)
Flexible licensing
No cost overages. No hidden costs.
Global presence and data residency
Free training and support

Make app reliability and security a team sport

Sumo Logic’s full-stack observability suite provides:

  • Adaptive analytics
    Analytics on all structured and unstructured application data including transaction traces, logs and metrics.
  • Powerful query language and user-friendly UX
    Explore all data and find the unknown unknowns using pattern detection with AI/ML.
  • Open source collection
    Works with OpenTelemetry, Telegraf, and other open source tools.
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Sumo Logic’s licensing model differs from Datadog:

  • Price transparency
    Eliminates license waste and on-demand overage bills.
  • Simplicity
    Single licensing model — no need to license every product or functionality.
  • Flexible data tiering
    Cost-effectively index all your data without sacrificing performance on our secure and compliant platform.

Listed as a visionary in the SIEM Gartner Magic Quadrant, Sumo Logic supports the entire spectrum of security use cases:

  • Cloud Infrastructure Security
    Out-of-the-box apps and integrations for security and compliance content, for both cloud and on-premise data sources.
  • Cloud SIEM
    Automatically triage alerts and correlate threats across your entire environment.
  • Cloud SOAR
    Take your security to the next level with security orchestration, automation and response.
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