Datadog vs Make
Enterprise cloud monitoring — infra, APM, logs, RUM, security, LLM
vs. Visual workflow automation (formerly Integromat) — deeper than Zapier
Pricing tiers
Datadog
Serverless Monitoring
$0.13 per month per 1M invocations.
$0 base (usage-based)
Free
Up to 5 hosts, 1-day metric retention. Community edition of Agent.
Free
Logs Ingestion
$0.10 per ingested/scanned GB per month.
$0 base (usage-based)
Logs Standard Index
$1.70 per million log events/month.
$0 base (usage-based)
Logs Flex Storage
$0.05 per million events stored/month.
$0 base (usage-based)
Infra Pro
Per host per month (annual billing). 15-month metric retention, 500+ integrations.
$15/mo
Infra Enterprise
Per host. Advanced features, Network Flow Monitoring.
$23/mo
APM
Per host (with Infra attached). Distributed tracing.
$31/mo
APM Pro
Per host. Continuous Profiler + Data Streams Monitoring.
$35/mo
APM Enterprise
Per host. App & API Protection + more.
$40/mo
Enterprise
Volume discounts, dedicated CSM, regional data residency.
Custom
Make
Free
$0. 1,000 operations/month. 3,000+ apps. Basic support. Min 15-min scheduling interval.
Free
Core
$9/mo. 10,000 operations. Unlimited active scenarios. Sub-minute scheduling. API access.
$9/mo
Pro
$16/mo. 10,000 operations. Priority execution. Custom variables. Full-text log search.
$16/mo
Teams
$29/mo. Team roles. Scenario templates. Share with team.
$29/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Custom functions, 24/7 support, overage protection, advanced security.
Custom
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing free on Datadog vs free on Make.
| Metric | Datadog | Make |
|---|---|---|
| No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers. | ||
Features
Datadog · 19 features
- APM — Distributed tracing + service catalog + code hotspots.
- Application Security — Runtime attack detection, threat intelligence, IAST.
- CI Visibility — Test + pipeline performance analytics.
- Cloud SIEM — Security events correlation, detection rules, audit trails.
- Continuous Profiler — Always-on CPU, memory, lock profiling in production.
- Dashboards — Pre-built + custom dashboards.
- Database Monitoring — Slow query detection for Postgres, MySQL, Mongo, Oracle, SQL Server.
- Incident Management — Built-in incident response with postmortems.
- Infrastructure Monitoring — Host, container, k8s metrics. 700+ integrations. Live process + container maps.
- LLM Observability — OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. trace + cost + prompt eval.
- Log Management — Ingest any logs, structured or raw. Pipelines, parsing, archives to S3.
- Monitors — Anomaly, forecast, outlier, composite monitors.
- Network Performance Monitoring — Packet-level analysis, flow monitoring.
- Notebooks — Runbook-style dashboards with queries + docs.
- Real User Monitoring — Frontend performance, JS errors, user sessions, Core Web Vitals.
- Serverless Monitoring — AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, Azure Functions observability.
- Service Catalog — Service inventory with ownership + documentation.
- Synthetics — Synthetic HTTP + browser tests, API tests, mobile tests.
- Workflow Automation — No-code workflows triggered by events.
Make · 16 features
- 3,000+ Apps — Huge integration catalog.
- Custom Apps SDK — Build your own app integrations with Apps SDK.
- Custom Functions (Ent) — Enterprise-only: define reusable functions.
- Custom Webhooks — Webhook triggers + responses.
- Data Stores — Make-native DB for cross-scenario state.
- Data Structures — Shared schemas for mapping.
- Error Handlers — Per-module error routes (rollback, resume, ignore).
- Execution Log — Per-operation input/output detail.
- Formula Editor — Rich formula language for data transformation.
- HTTP Module — Generic HTTP client — call any API.
- Iterator + Aggregator — Loop over arrays + collect results.
- Make AI Agents — Autonomous AI agents that invoke Make modules as tools.
- Router — Branch scenarios into multiple paths with conditions.
- Scenario Templates — Pre-built templates + community marketplace.
- Scheduling — Sub-minute scheduling on paid. 15-min min on Free.
- Visual Scenario Editor — Node-based canvas with curved connections.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | Datadog | Make |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | Datadog Agent | Make CLI (for Apps SDK) |
| SDK | dd-trace-dotnet, dd-trace-go, dd-trace-java, dd-trace-js (RUM), dd-trace (Node), ddtrace (Python), ddtrace (Ruby) | Apps SDK |
| REST | Datadog REST API | Make API |
| MCP | Datadog MCP | Make MCP |
| OTHER | OpenTelemetry (OTLP), Webhooks | Custom Webhooks, Make Web Editor |
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