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Observability at scale is challenging—especially when dealing with high-volume distributed traces. Traditional tracing tools struggle with large traces containing thousands of spans, often leading to sluggish UIs and an unmanageable debugging experience. Most tracing tools we checked have a limit on the maximum spans they can load for a single trace. But with SigNoz, we’ve redefined what’s possible.

Today, we’re excited to announce a much-awaited feature in SigNoz: Infrastructure Monitoring, built natively on OpenTelemetry. Infrastructure monitoring is a critical aspect of modern observability. Without proper visibility into your infrastructure resources, troubleshooting issues, optimizing costs, and maintaining performance become challenging.

Both DataDog and Prometheus are application monitoring tools aimed to improve application performance. While Datadog is a cloud-based SaaS solution, meaning there's no need to install or maintain any infrastructure, Prometheus is an open-source tool that requires manual download and installation on your infrastructure. Let us compare DataDog and Prometheus to see which tool suits The biggest difference between Datadog and Prometheus is that while Prometheus is open-source, Datadog is proprietary.