Datadog vs SampleCon 2026
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Datadog
Gain real-time visibility into alerts, incidents, and performance metrics from your mobile device. Quickly respond to critical issues, monitor key data, and manage incidents on the go. Access dashboards, logs, and APM traces anytime, anywhere.
- Real-time alert and incident management
- Monitor key metrics and dashboards
- Create and manage incidents on-the-go
- Search and explore logs in real-time
- View APM traces and service health
- Home Screen widget for quick access
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The Datadog mobile app provides real-time visibility into critical alerts, incidents, monitors, dashboards, logs and application performance metrics across your entire environment directly from your iPhone or iPad. Datadog seamlessly integrates with your on-call notification and messaging services so your on-call engineers can quickly evaluate the conditions that triggered an alert, determine its urgency, and decide the next course of action—anywhere, anytime. With Datadog for iOS, you can: - Trigger, respond, and resolve On-Call alerts anywhere: Receive critical push notifications and investigate alerting monitors or active incidents with direct access to monitors and incidents. Additionally, Bits AI SRE accelerates root cause detection. - Monitor key metrics on-the-go: Track performance, SLO, and cloud integrations with full access to your Datadog dashboards and monitors. -Create and manage Incidents from anywhere: Kick off incidents, assemble teams, and manage response workflows without ever having to open your laptop - Add Datadog on your Homescreen: Add Datadog to your Home or Lock Screen for one-tap access to critical metrics and monitors. - Search and explore Logs in real time: Pinpoint issues faster with log search and anomaly detection powered by Watchdog. - View APM traces and service health anytime: Analyze distributed traces and stay on top of application performance wherever you are. A Datadog account is required to use this application. Setup a Datadog account for free at datadoghq.com For more information, see Datadog Mobile App documentation: https://docs.datadoghq.com/mobile/ IMPORTANT NOTICE - PLEASE READ By downloading this app, you agree to comply with the terms and conditions governing the use and operation of this software in the End User License Agreement available at the following link: https://www.datadoghq.com/legal/eula/
SampleCon 2026
Enhance your event experience by connecting with attendees and accessing the latest conference information. This app serves as a companion before, during, and after the event, facilitating attendee communication, agenda viewing, and real-time notifications.
- Connect and communicate with attendees
- View conference agenda
- Access speaker and session details
- Receive event notifications
- Event companion before, during, and after
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Use the SampleCon conference app to enhance your event experience by connecting with other attendees and receiving the most up to date information. This app will be your companion not only during the event, but also before and after the event, helping you: 1) Discover, connect, and communicate with attendees 2) View the conference agenda, speakers, and sessions 3) Receive the latest notifications on event activities
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SampleCon 2026 at 5.0 against Datadog's 4.3. Datadog's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (292 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SampleCon 2026 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Datadog has 292 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Datadog ships an update every 9 days, SampleCon 2026 every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Datadog | SampleCon 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (292 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 37.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 292 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 255 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Datadog, Inc. | SampleCon |
Customer experience
Datadog
SampleCon 2026
Bugs and requests
Datadog
Reported bugs
19 issues- Login issues
- In-app browser broken
- Links not opening correctly
- Authentication failures
- App crashes
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- App not launching after update
- Dashboards not loading or reloading
- Widgets not working
- Monitors showing errors
- Cannot search with filters
- Graphs showing incorrect scales
- Cannot access logs
- Cannot switch organizations
- SSO login failures
- App logs out users unexpectedly
- Cannot connect to login after logout
- UI performance issues
- Dashboards not updating without manual intervention
- Loading animations that never end
Requested features
10 requests- Add volume control for alarms
- Add RUM Session Replay accessibility
- Add ability to see traces on mobile
- Add ability to manually trigger synthetic monitors
- Add push notification for warning monitors
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- Add logs feature exposure
- Add APM views to the app
- Add widgets for iOS 14
- Add ability to edit dashboards
- Add logs feature
SampleCon 2026
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Datadog
No in-app purchases
SampleCon 2026
No in-app purchases









