Datadog leads the SaaS observability market. Broad integrations catalog, strong APM, but priced for enterprise budgets and US-hosted.
| Dimension | monsys.ai | Datadog |
|---|---|---|
| Price per host | ✓€7/host/month all-in | ✗$23/host/month baseline + APM/RUM/Logs/Profiling each add-on |
| Data residency | ✓EU only · BE/NL DCs or self-host | ~EU region exists but failover to US, account is US-tenant |
| Self-host option | ✓Full Docker compose stack — one command | ✗SaaS only |
| APM (distributed tracing) | ~Hub instrumented with OpenTelemetry → Tempo · not a full APM product | ✓Full APM with flame graphs, profiling, RUM |
| Compliance evidence | ✓ISO27001/NIS2/CyFun controls with evidence export | ~Compliance Monitoring is a separate SKU (Cloud Security) |
| Out-of-band shell | ✓Emergency console over hub WS | ✗Not available |
| Integrations / agents | ~One agent for Linux/Windows + AWS/GCP/k8s on roadmap | ✓700+ integrations — Stripe to Snowflake |
| Vendor lock-in | ✓Open-source agent + standard PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB | ✗Proprietary query language, agent and dashboards |
Datadog's APM and RUM are unmistakably broader today. monsys focuses on infra/security monitoring with compliance — it's not a full-stack observability platform.