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Alternatives to Datadog
Datadog: Cloud monitoring as a service. 8 products similar to Datadog, compared on pricing, free tier, API, MCP server, SDK and open source. 8 of 8 have a free tier, 7 of 8 have an API, 3 of 8 offer an MCP server, 2 of 8 are open source.
- Middleware
Full-stack observability platform with an AI SRE agent
- Netdata
Real-time observability with per-second metrics, logs and traces, ML anomaly detection, and AI troubleshooting.
- Grafana Cloud
AI-powered, fully managed observability platform for metrics, logs, traces, and profiles
- Kinde
Auth, billing and access management for modern SaaS products
- Bleemeo
Infrastructure monitoring for servers, containers and Kubernetes with dashboards, alerts and logs
- IncidentHub
Vendor outage monitor and status page aggregator
- ManageEngine Log360 Cloud
Cloud-based SIEM solution for log management, threat detection, and compliance
- OpenObserve
Open source observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, and real user monitoring
Side by side
| Product | Pricing | Free tier | API | MCP server | SDK | Open source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Datadog | Free | yes | yes | yes | yes | no |
| Middleware | Freemium · from $0.3 per GB (pay-as-you-go); free tier with up to 100GB data | yes | yes | no | yes | no |
| Netdata | Freemium · from $4.50/node/month | yes | yes | yes | — | yes |
| Grafana Cloud | Freemium · from $0 | yes | yes | yes | — | no |
| Kinde | Freemium | yes | yes | no | yes | no |
| Bleemeo | Freemium · from 4.99 EUR per server per month (Starter); Professional 10.99 EUR per server per month; Free plan up to 3 servers; Enterprise custom | yes | yes | yes | — | no |
| IncidentHub | Freemium | yes | yes | no | no | no |
| ManageEngine Log360 Cloud | Freemium | yes | — | no | — | no |
| OpenObserve | Usage-based | yes | yes | — | yes | yes |
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