Monitoring and observability
Both are offered as hosted services, so the useful comparison is each vendor’s track record, SDK and licence rather than version support. Both are proprietary services. In the last 90 days Datadog’s status feed logged 11 incidents and New Relic’s 2.
Last checked against Datadog Status, npm, deps.dev, OSV.dev, CISA KEV and New Relic Status.
Every value links to its source. Where a row doesn’t apply to one of them, the cell says why.
| Compared on |  Datadog |  New Relic |
|---|---|---|
| Support and releases | ||
| Latest release | ||
| Releases in the last 12 months | ||
| Security | ||
| Advisories published in the last 12 months | ||
| OpenSSF Scorecard | ||
| Status and incidents | ||
| Status now | Operational | Operational |
| Incidents in the last 90 days | ||
| Licence and hosting | ||
| Licence | Proprietary service Not open source SDK (dd-trace): Apache-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause. | Proprietary service Not open source SDK (newrelic): Apache-2.0. |
| How you run it | Managed by Datadog; you run its agent and tracers | Managed by New Relic; you run its agents |
| Adoption | ||
| npm downloads last week | ||
| Datadog | New Relic |
|---|---|
| Latest release | |
| Releases in the last 12 months | |
| Datadog | New Relic |
|---|---|
| Advisories published in the last 12 months | |
| OpenSSF Scorecard | |
| Datadog | New Relic |
|---|---|
| Status now | |
Operational | Operational |
| Incidents in the last 90 days | |
| Datadog | New Relic |
|---|---|
| Licence | |
Proprietary service Not open source SDK (dd-trace): Apache-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause. | Proprietary service Not open source SDK (newrelic): Apache-2.0. |
| How you run it | |
Managed by Datadog; you run its agent and tracers | Managed by New Relic; you run its agents |
| Datadog | New Relic |
|---|---|
| npm downloads last week | |
Read across for what matters to you. Each answer comes from the data above or the project’s licence and hosting options.
| If you need | Datadog | New Relic |
|---|---|---|
| An open-source licence | No: Proprietary service | No: Proprietary service |
| Someone else runs it for you | Yes: From Datadog | Yes: From New Relic |
| You can run it on your own servers | No: Hosted only | No: Hosted only |
| A public incident history | Yes: Status page with 90-day history | Yes: Status page with 90-day history |
| Datadog | New Relic |
|---|---|
| An open-source licence | |
No: Proprietary service | No: Proprietary service |
| Someone else runs it for you | |
Yes: From Datadog | Yes: From New Relic |
| You can run it on your own servers | |
No: Hosted only | No: Hosted only |
| A public incident history | |
Yes: Status page with 90-day history | Yes: Status page with 90-day history |
Comprehensive monitoring and analytics platform
Full-stack observability platform
From StackPrism’s curated notes. Pricing isn’t covered here: it changes often, so check each vendor’s pricing page.
Both are hosted observability platforms that cover APM, infrastructure metrics, logs and real-user monitoring in one product, so teams usually compare how each instruments their stack and how it’s priced, which StackPrism doesn’t track. The table covers what can be checked: each vendor’s status history and the health of its Node.js agent.
Release lines and end-of-life dates come from endoflife.date, release counts from deps.dev’s publish dates, and advisories from OSV.dev, counted once per flaw even when it’s listed under several ids, and checked against CISA’s list of vulnerabilities known to be exploited. Status and incident history come from each vendor’s public status feed; licences from each project’s licence file or the vendor’s licensing page, linked in the table.
The data refreshes every few hours and the time it was checked is shown above. There’s no pricing and no overall winner: which one fits depends on your constraints. To see how the versions you actually run hold up, check your repo.
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