--- title: "Mergify vs Datadog CI Visibility: CI Insights That Take Action" description: "Compare Mergify CI Insights and Datadog CI Visibility. Both detect and quarantine flaky tests. Mergify also retries failed CI jobs on your rules and feeds that signal into the merge queue." url: https://mergify.com/compare/datadog-ci-visibility --- # CI Visibility That Takes Action Datadog can find and quarantine a flaky test. Mergify does that too, then carries the same signal into what gets merged. [Start a free 14-day trial](https://dashboard.mergify.com/)[See pricing](https://mergify.com/pricing) ## Feature comparison | Feature | Datadog | Mergify | | --- | --- | --- | | Flaky test detection | ✓ | ✓ | | Test quarantine | Quarantine or disable | ✓ | | Auto-retry on failure | Test-level, in the tracer | Job-level, configurable rules | | Pipeline traces | ✓ | Test-focused analytics | | CI framework support | Broad (APM-based) | 15+ test frameworks | | Merge queue integration | – | Native | | GitHub-native workflow | Separate platform | ✓ | | Scheduled freezes and PR dependencies | – | Included | | Setup complexity | Agent + library instrumentation | JUnit upload or GitHub App | [Get started](https://dashboard.mergify.com/) Used by the platform teams that ship fast and keep CI green "Two-step CI completely transformed how we handle long hardware tests. Instead of burning hours on repeated runs, we validate once and merge with confidence." Rushin Shah, Sr. Manager DevInfra · Cerebras "The merge queue is a huge value from Mergify: it keeps our main stable and allows us to merge quickly with confidence." Minh Tran, Platform Engineer · Apex Fintech Solutions "You get the benefits of Mergify immediately. There is no competitor doing stuff like this." Florian Berchtold, Software Engineer · Luminar "The merge queue is a time-saver! Contributors no longer have to carry the mental load of monitoring their PRs!" Johan Lorenzo, Staff Release Engineer · Mozilla "We transitioned from manual chaos to over 20 safe deploys per day. Mergify is becoming a critical part of our delivery function." Chris Irving, Engineering Manager · Jane "Our merge queue is like a safety net. Every PR that lands has been tested, approved, and verified under the exact same conditions." Fabien Marty, Senior Staff Software Engineer · Botify "With dozens of engineers and long-running CI jobs, Mergify turned what used to be a daily bottleneck into a background process. Our teams focus on hardware, not merge logistics." Ben Holtzman, Senior Design Enablement Engineer · AheadComputing "Before Mergify, we spent too much time manually coordinating merges. Now everything flows automatically." Nicolas Beaussart-Hatchuel, Senior Staff Software Engineer · PayFit "Mergify was the best fit. It saved a couple of hours per engineer per month and resolved our bottleneck with the merge queue." Tomas Nekolny, Engineering Manager · Productboard "The support on Slack is really good, reactive and transparent. We have other partners where problems feel less transparent. With Mergify, it's fluid." Clément Danjou, VP Blockchain · Zama ## From test health to merge decisions Datadog's flaky test tooling ends at the test run. Mergify's keeps going until the pull request is on main. ✓ Flaky tests quarantined automatically. No more blocked pipelines. ✓ CI-native. Built for GitHub Actions and Jenkins, not bolted onto APM. ✓ Action rules with no human in the loop: retry, skip, or quarantine on a condition. ✓ Complete merge platform. CI insights feed merge queue decisions. ✓ No Datadog dependency. Standalone CI intelligence, no existing spend required. ✓ Predictable pricing. No per-committer add-on billing surprises. > Before CI Insights, we were wasting hours debugging CI issues. We now cut triage time in half within a week. Liam Hartman Platform Engineer at Vertex ## CI Insights is just the beginning Mergify connects test intelligence directly to your merge workflow. Detect problems, act on them automatically. ### Detect Flaky tests, slow jobs, failure patterns ### Act Quarantine, auto-retry, skip known failures ### Merge Smart queue decisions using CI health data ## Evaluating CI visibility tools? We'll walk you through how Mergify compares for your specific setup. No pitch, just answers. [Book a discovery call](https://mergify.com/discovery) ## What Datadog CI Visibility doesn't cover Datadog gives you visibility. These are the gaps teams notice when they need action. ### Quarantine stops at the test A quarantined test no longer fails the build, which is the point. Whether the pull request is then safe to merge against today's main is a question Datadog leaves to someone else. ### Retries live inside the test run Auto Test Retries re-run a failing test case through the language library. Re-running a whole CI job that died on a runner or a network timeout is not part of it. ### No merge queue Datadog observes your CI but doesn't touch your merge process. PRs still pile up and conflict. ### Requires Datadog platform CI Visibility is an add-on to the broader Datadog platform. You need an existing Datadog contract to use it. ### Per-committer pricing CI Visibility bills per committer on top of your existing Datadog spend. Costs grow with your team, fast. > We had 40 known-flaky tests and no system to deal with them. Engineers just re-ran the suite and hoped. Test Engine quarantined the worst offenders on day one, and within a month we actually fixed most of them because we could finally see which ones mattered. Lucas Meier Staff Software Engineer at Norde ## The pricing question Datadog CI Visibility is a per-committer add-on to the broader Datadog platform. You need an existing Datadog contract, then pay extra for CI visibility on top. Costs scale with every developer who pushes code. Mergify includes CI Insights in every plan. Predictable per-seat pricing, no surprise line items. Free for up to 5 users on private repos. [See Mergify pricing](https://mergify.com/pricing)[Book a discovery call](https://mergify.com/discovery) ## Teams that merge more and break main less. [ ### 2x merge throughput with 3‑hour CI runs Read story → Cerebras 350 engineers · AI Infrastructure ](https://mergify.com/customers/cerebras) [ ### Cut CI time and kept main green Read story → Apex Fintech Solutions 350 engineers · Financial Technology ](https://mergify.com/customers/apex) [ ### 2x faster merges across a massive monorepo Read story → Back Market 300 engineers · E-commerce ](https://mergify.com/customers/back-market) [ ### 100% green main, faster shipping Read story → PayFit 150 engineers · HR Tech ](https://mergify.com/customers/payfit) ## Your CI pipeline should fix itself. CI Insights, test quarantine, and merge queue. All included, up to 5 users free. [Get started](https://dashboard.mergify.com/)[See how CI Insights works](https://mergify.com/product/ci-insights)