Datadog
Sentry
Datadog
Sentry
Datadog
Sentry
Datadog
Sentry
Datadog
Sentry
Datadog
No signals
Sentry
Datadog
No signals
Sentry
Users: Up to 5 hosts
Storage: 1 day retention
Limits: 5 host limit, 1-day retention, No APM, No log management, No custom metrics, No alerting beyond basic, Community support only
Users: Per host pricing
Storage: 15 months retention
Limits: No APM, No log management, No synthetic monitoring, No security features, Custom metrics billed separately
Users: Per host pricing
Storage: 15 months retention
Limits: APM not included, Logs not included, Custom metrics extra, Annual commitment often required for best pricing
Users: Per APM host
Storage: 15 days trace retention
Limits: Only 15-day trace retention, 150 indexed spans/host baseline, Profiling requires Enterprise tier, Must also pay for Infrastructure monitoring
Users: Per GB indexed
Storage: 15 days default retention
Limits: Only 15-day default retention, Ingestion and indexing priced separately, High volume = high costs, Must configure exclusion filters to control costs
Users: 1 user
Storage: N/A
Limits: Single user only, 5,000 errors/month cap, No team collaboration, Limited integrations, Community support only
Users: Unlimited users
Storage: N/A
Limits: No SSO/SAML, No custom retention, No dedicated support, 14-day data retention
Users: Unlimited users
Storage: N/A
Limits: No dedicated CSM, No custom contracts, No SLA guarantees without Enterprise
Users: Unlimited users
Storage: Custom
Limits: Requires sales call, Long procurement cycle, Minimum commitment expected
| Feature | Datadog | Sentry |
|---|---|---|
| Monitoring | ||
| Infrastructure monitoring Core product, 750+ integrations, auto-discovery | ||
| Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Distributed tracing, service maps - additional $31-40/host | ||
| Log Management Ingestion, indexing, analytics - $0.10/GB indexed | ||
| Synthetic Monitoring API and browser tests - additional per-test pricing | ||
| Real User Monitoring (RUM) Frontend performance - additional per-session pricing | ||
| Core | ||
| Error Tracking Industry-leading error grouping and stack traces | ||
| Performance Monitoring Transaction tracing, but quota limited | ||
| Session Replay Available on paid plans, limited quota | ||
| DevOps | ||
| Release Tracking Correlate errors with deployments | ||
| Developer | ||
| Source Maps Supported but complex to configure | ||
| API Access Full REST API available | ||
| Visualization | ||
| Custom dashboards Unlimited on paid plans, powerful but complex to configure | ||
| Integrations | ||
| GitHub Integration Issue linking, commit tracking | ||
| GitLab Integration Full integration support | ||
| Jira Integration Create issues from errors | ||
| OpenTelemetry support Supported but incomplete/inconsistent implementation | ||
| Slack Integration Alert notifications to channels | ||
| PagerDuty Integration Incident escalation | ||
| Alerting | ||
| Alerting and anomaly detection ML-based alerts on Enterprise, threshold alerts on all paid | ||
| Security | ||
| Cloud Security (CSPM) Cloud Security Posture Management - additional cost | ||
| Custom Data Retention Business plan and above | ||
| SSO/SAML Available on paid plans | ||
| Deployment | ||
| On-premise/self-hosted SaaS only - no self-hosting option | ||
| Self-Hosted Option Open-source, but operationally complex | ||
| Compliance | ||
| SOC 2 / ISO 27001 compliance SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA BAA available | ||
| FedRAMP authorization FedRAMP Moderate authorization | ||
| Accessibility | ||
| Mobile app iOS and Android apps with basic functionality | ||
| Platforms | ||
| Mobile SDKs (iOS/Android) Native and cross-platform support | ||
| React Native/Flutter Dedicated SDKs with performance monitoring | ||
| Observability | ||
| Infrastructure Monitoring Not available, use Datadog/etc for this | ||
