Looking for Datadog alternatives?
Datadog is a comprehensive observability platform with roots in infrastructure and backend monitoring, spanning servers, cloud, APM, logs, security, web and mobile.
Measure is a mobile first, open source Datadog alternative.
Full session context on every issue
Datadog gives you stack traces and auto-captured events out of the box with Mobile Session Replays billed separately. If you want full context on every error, you will need to turn on Mobile Session Replays for all of them and accommodate the significant cost increase.
Measure attaches a full Session Timeline with gestures, navigation, network calls, lifecycle events and custom spans to every crash, ANR and error and you only pay for the data used as a whole.
You see exactly what the user did and what the app did, on every issue, without any compromise on the context.
Adaptive capture, not fixed sampling
Datadog uses client-side sampling. You set a session sample rate, with a separate replay sample rate applied on top and decide up front what fraction to keep.
Measure captures full session context by default, and with Adaptive Capture you can tune what you collect remotely, without shipping an app update.
Dial up sample rates on new releases or when chasing tricky production issues, dial down whenever you need to.
Fully open source
Datadog publishes its mobile SDKs as open source, but the backend and dashboard are proprietary. You can read the SDK, but you can't see or run the platform that ingests and stores your data.
Measure is fully open source. Read it, run it, self-host it, audit the pipeline and if you think something can be done better, send a pull request.
Simple, predictable pricing
Datadog is metered across a long list of separate SKUs. RUM sessions are split into tiers, Mobile Session Replay is billed on top, and per-host APM, infrastructure and logs have their own price lists.
Measure has a single, transparent price based on how much data you use. No per-seat fees, no separate product meters. With Adaptive Capture you can dial collection up or down without rolling out app updates to control your costs even better.
Built for mobile, by mobile devs
Datadog monitors infrastructure, servers, cloud, APM, logs, security and frontend across hundreds of integrations. Mobile is one small corner of a sprawling observability platform, and the defaults, dashboards, product decisions and roadmap are shaped by the whole platform rather than by the needs of mobile devs alone.
Measure is built only for mobile. Crashes & ANRs, App Health, Performance Traces, Network Performance, Bug Reports and User Journeys are all designed around how mobile apps actually break in production.
Mobile is not a part of our product, it is the whole product.
Measure vs Datadog
| Capability | Measure | Datadog |
|---|---|---|
| Crash reporting with full session timelines | Crash reports with auto-captured events, session replay sampled & billed separately | |
| ANR detection with full session timelines | ANRs, session replay sampled & billed separately | |
| Performance traces | ||
| Network monitoring | ||
| User journeys | ||
| In-app bug reports | ||
| Session timeline on every issue | Session replay, sampled & billed separately | |
| Dynamic Sampling with Adaptive Capture | Client side only sampling | |
| Auto-captured context | Gestures, navigation, network, lifecycle | Actions, views, network, errors |
| Pricing | Simple pricing based on data usage | Separate SKUs for RUM session tiers, replay, APM, infra & logs |
| Open Source | Apache 2.0 (OSI open source) | SDKs only |
| Self-hostable | ||
| Public roadmap & issue tracker | SDK repos only | |
| Mobile focus | One small part of a huge platform |