🤝 It's a Tie — Both tools are very closely matched. Your best choice depends on your specific workflow.
Feature
New Relic
Datadog
Rating
No ratings
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Free Plan
Starting Price
Free
$15/mo
Monthly Visits
10.0M
25.0M
API Support
Open Source
AI Capabilities
Mobile App
Desktop App
Browser Extension
Integrations
4 apps
4 apps
Team Size
ENTERPRISE
ENTERPRISE
New Relic Pros & Cons
Pros
- Genuinely unified data platform across APM, infra, and logs
- Consumption-based pricing can be cost-effective for variable workloads
- Strong dashboards and alerting
Cons
- Consumption pricing requires active monitoring to avoid surprise bills
- Feature breadth means a learning curve to configure well
- Competes closely with Datadog on most core capabilities
Datadog Pros & Cons
Pros
- Genuinely unified view across infra, logs, and app performance
- Very broad set of 800+ integrations
- Powerful dashboards and anomaly detection
Cons
- Pricing complexity across many billable products is a common complaint
- Can get expensive quickly at scale if not carefully managed
- Full value takes real onboarding investment
New Relic Key Features
- Application performance monitoring (APM)
- Infrastructure monitoring
- Log management
- Browser & mobile monitoring
- AI-driven anomaly detection
Datadog Key Features
- Infrastructure & container monitoring
- Log management & analytics
- APM & distributed tracing
- Real User Monitoring (RUM)
- Cloud Security Management