Datadog vs Gatus

Is Gatus a good alternative to Datadog? Here’s what you need to know.

Gatus

Free

Open-source automated service health dashboard.

Gatus is an open-source automated service health dashboard. Define health checks in YAML, monitor HTTP, TCP, DNS, ICMP, and more. Alerts via Slack, PagerDuty, email, and others. Single Go binary.

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Why switch from Datadog?

Indie pricing — no enterprise markup or per-seat fees
Direct maker support — talk to the person who built it
Transparent & open — many indie tools are open-source
No vendor lock-in — own your data, export anytime

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