We performed a comparison between Amazon OpenSearch Service and Datadog based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."We retrieve historical data with just a click of a button to move it from cold to hot or warm because it's already stored in the backend storage"
"It brings in observability, monitoring, and alerting capabilities - all of which we need to operate at scale."
"We like the distributed tracing and flame graphs for debugging. This has been invaluable for us during periods of high traffic or red alert conditions."
"Having a wealth of information has helped us investigate outages, and having historical data helps us tune our system."
"The integration into AWS is key as well as our software is currently bound to AWS."
"Integrating Datadog with other platforms has made our monitoring processes a bit easier. It's not super simple, but it's manageable."
"The performance of Datadog is good."
"The monitoring functionality, in general, and tagging infrastructure are great."
"The product has offered increased visibility via logging APM, metrics, RUM, etc."
"It would be beneficial to have some level of customization available in the managed service, tailored to the specific use cases of the end users."
"The documentation could be improved regarding setting up the agent properly and debugging."
"Datadog could always lower the price!"
"The current way accounts are billed could be vastly improved - especially when involving multiple organizations across multiple accounts in combination with reserved commitments."
"Their security features could be improved. We looked at their Security Monitoring feature but it was early in its development. Datadog are just getting into the security space so I'm sure this will improve in the future."
"At times, it can be hard to generate metrics out of logs."
"Datadog has a lot of documentation, but a lot of that documentation assumes you know how the service works, which can lead to confusion."
"I've found that the documentation is lacking in certain regards."
"The product could be improved by providing remote control to agents, enabling them to execute automation and collections without requiring another automation tool or integration."
Amazon OpenSearch Service is ranked 51st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review while Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 137 reviews. Amazon OpenSearch Service is rated 7.0, while Datadog is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon OpenSearch Service writes "A managed solution that provides login authentication but has high cost". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". Amazon OpenSearch Service is most compared with Grafana Loki and Amazon CloudWatch, whereas Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability.
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