CloudWatch vs Datadog: which is better for observability?

Datadog provides comprehensive monitoring on a single platform, unifying metrics, logs, traces, and SLOs with highly visual dashboards and powerful third-party integrations across cloud, on-premises, and Kubernetes/hybrid environments. CloudWatch provides essential AWS infrastructure logs and alerting. For large-scale observability across multiple infrastructures, Datadog is a leader; use CloudWatch for AWS events and active budgets.