Datadog vs Push Security

The feature sets barely overlap. Datadog is a platform play: infrastructure monitoring with auto-discovered dashboards, APM with distributed tracing and a continuous profiler, log management with live tail and sensitive data scanning, plus Cloud SIEM, CSPM, and CIEM under one roof. Recent additions push it further into AI-era workloads — GPU monitoring for NVIDIA GPUs is now generally available, Agent Observability is in beta for agent fleet health (version, connectivity, resource usage), and Bits AI agents now handle incident response by correlating telemetry to suggest root causes and remediation. Its integration surface (1,000+ including AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry) reflects a buyer wiring together an entire engineering org.

Push Security is narrow and deep on the browser. It's an extension that detects behavioral phishing, AiTM reverse-proxy pages, cloned logins, Browser-in-the-Browser, ClickFix clipboard injection, device code phishing that bypasses passkeys, consent phishing and malicious OAuth integrations, malicious extensions, infostealers, ghost logins, session hijacking, and credential stuffing. It also inventories shadow AI apps and controls prompts, clipboard use, and file uploads to LLMs. Deployment is explicitly without an enterprise-browser migration or endpoint agent.

The only connective tissue is that Push Security lists Datadog as an integration — browser telemetry can flow into Datadog, not compete with it.

The pricing models are structurally different, which is the clearest signal these aren't competitors. Datadog is paid and usage-based: costs track hosts, log volume, APM spans, GPU fleets, and which security modules (SIEM, CSPM, CIEM) you switch on. That's the standard shape for observability platforms and it's why Datadog itself lists 'cost-conscious startups where usage-based pricing may spike unpredictably' as a poor fit. Budgeting means forecasting growth, not picking a per-seat plan.

Push Security is freemium with an explicit $5/user/month target for teams up to 500 employees — a predictable, seat-based number that scales linearly with headcount and stays flat regardless of how many phishing attempts get blocked. That flatness is the pitch for mid-market security teams that want phishing defense without usage surprises.

So the comparison isn't 'which is cheaper.' A 400-person company pays roughly $2,000/month for Push Security at list; the same company's Datadog bill depends entirely on how much telemetry it ships. You'd evaluate Datadog against Splunk, Grafana, or New Relic, and Push Security against email security gateways or enterprise-browser vendors — each on its own budget line.