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Datadog Alternatives: Finding Cost Effective Solution for 2024
Unlock the potential of your monitoring and do more while paying less with Checkly’s synthetic monitoring.
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| Checkly | Datadog | |
|---|---|---|
Key Features | ||
Monitoring as Code workflow | ||
Command Line Interface | ||
Playwright Compatibility | ||
API Monitoring | ||
Browser Monitoring | ||
Heartbeat Monitoring | ||
Local Workflow | ||
Status Pages | ||
User Experience | ||
Pricing | ||
Structure | ✅ Transparent, Cost-Effective | ❌ Overly Costly, Additional Support Costs |
Price per 10,000 API runs | $2 | $7 |
Price per 1,000 Browser runs | $5 | $18 |
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With MaC, your synthetic monitoring lives in version control, meaning it's programmable, testable, reviewable, and works with your dev pipeline. From your IDE, via PR to CI. In comparison, New Relic has very limited MaC support.
Checkly directly meets the needs of engineers, with their code living in version control. Code your monitoring on your local machine, test your preview deployments in CI, and monitor in production.
Checkly hyper-focuses on synthetic monitoring, excelling in API, Web application and Heartbeat monitoring, unlike Datadog's generalized offering. We'll keep investing all our resources to grow in this direction.
“Checkly has helped us save engineering resources and expenses.
When we get an alert from Checkly, we can go directly to our customers and tell them about any issues. The number of our customer support tickets are then reduced because the customer is already proactively informed about problems without having to report the issues themselves.” ”
Lead Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) at Locus
Get Started With Monitoring as Code
Transform your development workflow with a code-based monitoring process that's programmable, fast, and dependable.
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Your app’s code lives in your repository. Your monitoring should too. Create resources in a programmable way, coding them instead of configuring them.
new ApiCheck('hello-api-1', {
name: 'Hello API',
activated: true,
request: {
method: 'GET',
url: 'https://api.checklyhq.com/public-stats',
assertions: [
AssertionBuilder.statusCode().equals(200)
],
}
})2
Test your resources from your local machine or during deployment in CI, all running on Checkly’s global infrastructure.
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Deploy, lifecycle, and scale your end-to-end testing and monitoring solution from the command line alongside your application deployments.
$ npx checkly deploy
Why Choose Checkly?
A future-proof Monitoring as Code (MaC) workflow, easy to integrate and efficient. No vendor lock-in thanks to open-source technologies like Playwright.
Code your checks to cover complex use cases and have a low false failure rate. Playwright-powered browser checks for more flexibility and stability.
Your Checkly subscription includes software implementation, training, support, integration, storage, and other maintenance costs. No hidden fees.
Checkly provides a Command Line Interface (CLI) that enables a local IDE driven workflow to develop and test checks and, more broadly, deploy the entirety of your synthetic monitoring setup as code.
"Checkly CLI has enhanced our engineering team's ability to quickly build, validate and deploy an entire suite of checks from their local development environment."
Tavares Chambless
Manager, Quality Assurance, Loyal Health
"We've been using Checkly for the past months. It's been phenomenal. Super easy to get setup, works flawlessly and intuitively. The team are super receptive & quick to help"
Jake Cooper
Founder / Engineer railway.app
"Checkly is a fabulous developer tool! The flexible features and developer-friendly API made the integration super easy. Bonus: their support is super friendly and knowledgeable!"
Connor Hicks
Lead Developer 1password.com
"Checkly is incredible: It combines Pingdom, Ghost Inspector and Assertible all in the same app, and the insights are much more detailed."
Leo Lamprecht
SVP Product vercel.com
"Checkly has helped us save engineering resources and expenses. The number of our customer support tickets are then reduced because the customer is already proactively informed about problems without having to report the issues themselves."
Aliasger Kiranawala
Lead Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) at Locus
"A real advantage that Checkly gives us is that we’re not waiting for our users to report an issue with a product, or waiting on a staff member to file a ticket—Checkly gives us real-time feedback on what is and isn’t working."
Thomas Reither
Associate Consultant
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