Raygun vs DataDog

The best way to compare Raygun vs DataDog: features, plans, pricing, error reporting, ignore rules, bug tracking, support and more.

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Raygun

Raygun
Raygun Crash Reporting gives you a window into how users are really experiencing your software applications. Detect, diagnose and resolve issues that are affecting end users.
Datadog

Datadog
Monitoring, Security, and Digital Experience platform for big enterprise.

Pricing & Plans

Raygun Pricing

  • 14 Day Free Trial
  • Annual Discount
  • Billing Model
    Reserved and Metered Billing
  • Basic
    $60/month+
    Users: Unlimited
    Errors: 100,000
    Retention: 180 Days
  • Team
    $300/month+
    Users: Unlimited
    Errors: 500,000
    Retention: 180 Days
  • Business
    $600/month+
    Users: Unlimited
    Errors: 1,000,000
    Retention: 180 Days

Datadog Pricing

  • 14 Day Free Trial
  • Annual Discount
  • Billing Model
    Metered Event-Based
  • Pro @ 100,000 Events
    $54
    Errors: 100,000
    Retention: 15 Days
    Custom Events: 500
  • Pro @ 500,000 Events
    $198
    Errors: 500,000
    Retention: 15 Days
    Custom Events: 500
  • Enterprise @ 1,000,000 Events
    $387
    Errors: 1,000,000
    Retention: 15 Days
    Custom Events: 1000

Error Monitoring and Reporting

Raygun Error Monitoring

  • Reporting Capability
  • Frontend Error Tracking
  • Backend Error Tracking
  • Sourcemapped Stack Traces
  • Error Breadcrumbs
    Limited info provided
  • Custom Context
  • Data Quality
  • Automatic sampling during spikes
  • Server Side Inbound Filtering
    Only available to Team plans and above
  • Custom Error Grouping
  • Reporting Capability
  • Pre-built Dashboards
  • Queryable Reports
    Limited number, only for Team plans and above
  • Release Tracking
  • Custom SQL-like Queries
  • Alerting
  • Email and Chat Notifications
  • Issue Notifications
  • Email Summary Reports

Datadog Error Monitoring

  • Reporting Capability
  • Frontend Error Tracking
  • Backend Error Tracking
  • Sourcemapped Stack Traces
  • Error Breadcrumbs
    Uses Session Replay
  • Custom Metadata
  • Data Quality
  • Configured Sampling
  • Server Side Filtering
    Configuration Required
  • Custom Error Grouping
  • Reporting Capability
  • Pre-built Dashboards
  • Queryable Reports
  • Release Tracking
  • Custom SQL-like Queries
  • Alerting
  • Email and Chat Notifications
  • Issue Notifications
  • Email Summary Reports

Support and Sustainability

Raygun Support & Sustainability

  • Tiered Support
  • Location
    New Zealand
  • Funding Model
    Venture Capital

Datadog Support & Sustainability

  • Outsourced Supported
  • Location
    San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Funding Model
    Public

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Raygun vs Datadog in Summary

Both Raygun and DataDog are full featured observability platforms. DataDog has better reporting and platform capability, while Raygun has better tools for handling noisy errors. Both tools are quite expensive. For a cheaper, front-end error tracking alternative that has great reporting and noise management, consider TrackJS.

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With TrackJS, the focus is on errors occurring on the browser. Filtering is second to none, and the quick views of trending errors are helpful in digging past the 3rd party script noise. It filters down to the core issues.

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