Observability vs Monitoring: Datadog vs New Relic for Application and Infrastructure Visibility
Choose Datadog if infrastructure depth, Kubernetes visibility, and cloud operations are your main pain points; choose New Relic if application performance, engineering workflows, and telemetry analysis sit at the center of your work. Both tools can monitor systems, collect logs, trace requests, and alert teams before users complain. The better choice depends on where outages usually start, who owns production, and how much telemetry you can afford to store.