Datadog Kubernetes Monitoring vs Grafana Mimir
| Datadog Kubernetes Monitoring | Grafana Mimir | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes | |
| Free trial | Yes | |
| Paid from | $1/mo | |
| Platforms | api, Linux, macOS, self-hosted, Web, Windows | |
| Free plan | Yes | |
| Paid from | 1 /mo | |
| Control-plane monitoring | Yes | |
| Kubernetes logs | Yes | |
| Distributed tracing | Yes | |
| Alerting channels | email, Slack, PagerDuty, Microsoft Teams, webhooks | |
| Managed Kubernetes support | Yes | |
| Data retention | 450 days | |
| Deployment | self_hosted | |
| SQL support | No | |
| Retention policies | Yes | |
| Horizontal scaling | Yes | |
| Query languages | PromQL | |
| Ingestion methods | Prometheus remote write; Grafana Agent; Prometheus Agent; OpenTelemetry; Influx; Graphite; Datadog |
Listed together in Best Kubernetes Monitoring