5 Reasons why do Engineers choose
Middleware over Datadog?
1. AI-based advisor provides useful insights
- Get AI-based recommendations for your logs and errors with details of root cause and solution.
- Proactively monitor critical issues using custom alerts and notifications based on specific log data, enabling.
2. Cost-effective and best value
- Comprehensive monitoring with transparent pricing, default retention, queries, alerts, AIOps, dashboards, and free storage.
- Invest less for 5x value (60% less than Datadog). No hidden charges, overage penalties, or headaches.
3. Easy setup with single script installation
- Get 100% logs, traces, and events easily with a single script installation.
- Simplify collaboration with DevOps and Engineers through a single source of truth for deployment and configuration.
4. Powerful monitoring tools in a single place
- Unified access: logs, infrastructure, serverless, Kubernetes, DB, and synthetic monitoring.
- Comprehensive app and user insights across clouds: code, traces, metrics, logs, metadata.
5. Unified view
- Get all metrics, logs, traces, and events in a unified timeline to easily correlate data for faster troubleshooting.
- Correlation reveals system behavior, identifies root causes, and improves problem resolution.
Comparison
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| Unique value proposition | Middleware | Datadog |
|---|---|---|
| Actual unified view (with correlations) | ||
| Installation process | Single step | Lengthy step |
| Cost-effective pricing (no extras cost at peak and downtime) | 5x less | Costly |
| AI-based recommendation | Not really | |
| Data retention | 90 days | Additional $2.50/m log events each month. |
| All features(APM, infra monitoring, RUM, etc) access in every plan | ||
| Data storage on your servers / on-premise | ||
| Unlimited free containers per host | ||
| Custom development and custom log monitoring | ||
| Technical support | Only in the enterprise plan |
Our customers tell the best stories
We migrated from Datadog to Middleware because we absolutely love their unified view. It's such a simple but incredibly useful tool. This among other features made it a no brainer for us to migrate. We monitor our logs, metrics, and traces at a very affordable cost.
Cliff, President and Founder at Puresend
We use Middleware.io for monitoring our cloud infrastructure. It is extremely easy to integrate and provides a comprehensive view of your cloud environment with a very affordable price.
Artem Harutyunyan, Co-Founder at Bardeen.ai
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, Middleware is free forever. You can use log monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, APM services, and all its features for free.
At Middleware, you only pay for the services you use. All features are included, so you don’t need to worry about selecting a plan for specific features.
We charge for the actual usage and not for the peak usage. This way, you can save up to 5X the cost with Middleware’s pay-as-you-go plan compared to Datadog pricing.
Yes. We have multiple products, and you can choose any or all of them. You will only be charged for the products to which you have subscribed.
We offer a solution where you can save your log in your data storage, which keeps your cost low when you have a high log volume. To know more about it, please book a demo with our Product export.