We performed a comparison between Akamai mPulse and Datadog based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is the solutions overall performance. It is very efficient and accurate for our usage."
"Enables dynamic injections from within the product which is great."
"Its logs are most valuable."
"The visibility into our network has allowed for quick diagnosis of failures, identification of underutilized or over-utilized resources, and allowed for cloud cost optimization opportunities."
"The product has offered increased visibility via logging APM, metrics, RUM, etc."
"Excellent autocomplete for everything in the UI."
"Using the data, our operation teams works with the dashboards to get their statistics, analytics, etc."
"The solution has helped out organization gain improved visibility."
"We find they have a very helpful alert system."
"Datadog is constantly adding new features."
"In the next release, I would like to see the possibility of sharing the metric from this solution with other solutions."
"The end-to-end distributor tracing connectivity isn't there."
"It can have a more modernized pricing mechanism. We're actually working with them to figure out how to become more modular and have a better and more modernized pricing mechanism. The issue with Datadog is that you have to buy the whole suite of different products, and you kind of get stuck in the old utilization of 40% of their suite. Most organizations today break down between application development, networking, and security. Therefore, there should be a way to break down different modules into just app dev, infosec, networking, etc. Customers have various needs across their business lines, and sometimes, they're just not willing to have tools that they're not using 100%. AppDynamics is probably a little bit better in terms of being modular."
"The solution should provide alerts for cloud outages."
"It seems that admin cost control granularity is an afterthought."
"Datadog lacks a deeper application-level insight. Their competitors had eclipsed them in offering ET functionality that was important to us. That's why we stopped using it and switched to New Relic. Datadog's price is also high."
"We need a lot of modules since we collect all data logs from all operating systems."
"Its pricing model can be improved. Its settings should be improved for a better understanding of billing. They should also provide some alerts when there is an increase in the usage. For example, if there is 20% more increase from one week to another, the customer should get an alert."
"The documentation leaves a lot to be desired for new users."
"The product is quite complex, and there are so many features that I either didn't know about or wasn't sure how to use."
Akamai mPulse is ranked 53rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 6 reviews while Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 137 reviews. Akamai mPulse is rated 6.6, while Datadog is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Akamai mPulse writes "Lacking in regard to observation of the entire platform but does dynamic injections from within". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". Akamai mPulse is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, Grafana, AppDynamics and Sentry, whereas Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability. See our Akamai mPulse vs. Datadog report.
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