Luciq vs. Datadog

Luciq vs. Datadog | Delivering mobile observability Datadog wasn’t built for

Stop settling for broad monitoring. Luciq offers specialized, agentic mobile observability. While Datadog is full-stack, Luciq provides granular ANR detection and Apdex scores tailored for peak app performance.

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Specialized AI for mobile‑first prioritization
Luciq’s AI agents prioritize critical performance issues by correlating crashes and ANRs with user context. Unlike Datadog’s broad grouping, Luciq is mobile-trained to ensure you focus on the highest-impact bugs.
Business metrics that matter
Luciq ties performance metrics directly to business outcomes, providing insights into revenue at risk, conversion funnels, and retention trends. Unlike Datadog, Luciq ensures teams understand the real-world impact of app improvements on business success.
Mobile-first observability
Luciq is purpose-built for mobile teams, offering deep insights into app performance, stability and user behavior. With features like crash reporting, network monitoring, and screen load metrics, Luciq delivers data that surpasses Datadog’s generalized approach to monitoring.

Luciq vs Datadog: A deeper dive

Datadog
Test Your App Before Every Release
Bug Reporting with Repro Steps
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Bug Reporting with Custom Workflows
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Beta Releases Health Comparisons
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Auto Rollout Stable Releases
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Pause Phased Rollouts of Unstable Release
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Improve App Quality and Performance
Debugging using Feature Flags and Verbose Logs
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Root Cause Analysis with Smart Resolve AI
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Automatic Assignment of Issues to Designated Teams
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Mobile Specific Metrics such as App Hangs, Force Restarts OOMs, Network Crashes
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Debugging ANRs with Flame Graphs
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Slow Screen Transitions Auto Detect
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Automatic Alerts When Spikes Affect Specific Code Areas
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ANR, OOM, App Hang Rates Monitoring
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Apdex, Crash Free Sessions and Crash Free Users Monitoring
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Customized Alerts and Integrations
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Collect Actionable User Feedback
Collect Feedback After a Performance Issue
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Investigate a Support Ticket using Session Replay
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Debug Root Causes of Negative App Ratings
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Pricing & implementation
Luciq offers predictable session-based pricing and a lightweight SDK for rapid, transparent deployment at scale.
Pricing Model
Per Session/Seats
Per User/Ingested Data
Set-up Complexity
Low (SDK)
High (Requires full-stack setup)
Cost Predictability
High (Scales with seats & sessions)
Low (High-watermark billing often leads to "bill shock")
Core Mobile Features Included in Base Plan
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SDK Built for Minimal Performance Impact
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Why Luciq works best for
mobile first teams 

With Luciq, experience the best in breed mobile solution with your preferred observability solution 
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• Align teams around one quality metric
• Identify crash frequency and severity
• Receive contextual bug reports from users
• See exactly what your users are experiencing
• Debug and monitor app ratings and reviews
• Take full control of your phased rollouts
Customers

Real teams. Real outcomes.
Happier users.

More Case Studies
Luciq gives us a finger on the pulse of our users and their experience, helping us catch and fix major issues in production before their impact grows.
Vivek Karuturi
Native Apps Engineering Lead
“Luciq gives us a real-time safety net; we’re detecting and patching issues in under 30 minutes, often before our users or even our backend systems realize something is wrong."
Tommy McIntosh
Staff Platform Engineer
Before Luciq, we didn’t have a workflow. With a single centralized location for app data, developers could now quickly assess which situations needed their attention most urgently and strategize best solutions faster.
Maxime Harter
Engineering Manager
We have integrations with Luciq to manage our releases and automatically label them. Then we're able to go in very quickly and look at all the issues that were reported on that release version.
DJ Tarazona
Director of Engineering