Datadog Kubernetes Monitoring vs Elastic Observability
| Datadog Kubernetes Monitoring | Elastic Observability | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes | |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Paid from | $1/mo | |
| Platforms | api, Linux, macOS, self-hosted, Web, Windows | api, Linux, macOS, self-hosted, Web, Windows |
| Free plan | Yes | No |
| Paid from | 1 /mo | 99 /mo |
| Control-plane monitoring | Yes | |
| Kubernetes logs | Yes | |
| Distributed tracing | Yes | Yes |
| Alerting channels | email, Slack, PagerDuty, Microsoft Teams, webhooks | |
| Managed Kubernetes support | Yes | |
| Data retention | 450 days | 30 days |
| Transaction tracing | Yes | |
| Dependency mapping | Yes | |
| Real user monitoring | Yes | |
| Log correlation | Yes | |
| Deployment model | hybrid | |
| Deployment | hybrid | |
| Language support | PHP, Python, Java/JVM, Go, Rust, C/C++, Node.js/V8, Ruby, Perl, Zig | |
| Profiling types | CPU profiling through stack sampling | |
| Log retention | 30 days | |
| Log pipelines | Yes | |
| Archive export | Yes | |
| Live log tailing | Yes | |
| Deployment options | both | |
| Structured log parsing | Yes | |
| Core Web Vitals | Yes | |
| Mobile app monitoring | No | |
| Interaction tracking | Yes | |
| Geographic breakdown | Yes | |
| Error correlation | Yes | |
| Pricing metric | custom | |
| Fastest schedule | 1-minute | |
| Browser checks | Yes | |
| API checks | Yes | |
| Transaction checks | Yes | |
| Journey checks | Yes |
Listed together in Best Kubernetes Monitoring