Switching, honestly
What you keep, gain and give up
Keep
Any OpenTelemetry instrumentation you already have. Your Datadog agent and account can stay in place while you compare.
Gain
One bill priced by data, with a cap that samples instead of surprising you. No per-host or per-module line items.
Give up
Breadth. Datadog has a much larger integration catalogue, plus network and security products we do not offer. Apps on the proprietary tracer need OpenTelemetry first.
What you use
Built from features that ship today
Service map
The OpenTelemetry service graph, with uninstrumented dependencies as virtual nodes.
APM & tracing →
Cluster explorer
Nodes, workloads and pods with a jump to their traces, from one Helm install.
Kubernetes →
How it works
Three steps
Add an exporter
Add one exporter to your OpenTelemetry Collector and your current tool keeps receiving everything it does today.
Compare
Start with one service or ten percent of traffic.
Decide
Move what works. Nothing proprietary to undo later.
Questions
Can I use the Datadog agent to send to Owlpane?
Where Owlpane is narrower
- No ~900-integration catalogue, network monitoring suite or security products.
Comparisons reflect publicly available information as of September 2026 and our own product today, and may change. Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, Dash0, Better Stack, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS, Sentry, Dynatrace, Kubeshark, Checkly, PagerDuty, SigNoz, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus and other names are trademarks of their respective owners; Owlpane is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
Send a copy of your telemetry. Change nothing else.
Standard OpenTelemetry in, so you can try Owlpane beside what you run today.
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