Datadog Kubernetes Monitoring vs Prometheus
| Datadog Kubernetes Monitoring | Prometheus | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | No |
| Paid from | $1/mo | Free |
| Platforms | api, Linux, macOS, self-hosted, Web, Windows | Linux, macOS, self-hosted, Web, Windows |
| Free plan | Yes | 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 | No | |
| Query languages | PromQL | |
| Ingestion methods | HTTP pull scraping; Pushgateway; Remote Write; OpenMetrics backfilling |
Listed together in Best Kubernetes Monitoring