We compared Datadog and Splunk APM based on our users' reviews in five parameters and you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Users appreciate Datadog's user-friendly interface, ease of use, and seamless setup. Its extensive integrations, troubleshooting capabilities, and instrumentation features are highly valuable. Additionally, Datadog offers flexibility and observability, along with a wide array of additional features. On the other hand, while Splunk APM is also considered user-friendly and quick to deploy, it lacks customization options and has challenging log navigation, resulting in slower performance. Despite being somewhat expensive, Datadog's pricing is justified due to its value and flexibility, whereas Splunk APM's pricing is reasonable. The customer service and support for both products generate mixed reviews, but Datadog generally receives positive feedback for its helpful and responsive support.
"We have a better grasp of what is occurring during the deployment cycle. If something fails, we have an idea what has failed, where it has failed, and how it failed to better mitigate the situation."
"Most of the features in the way Datadog does monitoring are commendable and that is the reason we choose it. We did some comparisons before picking Datadog. Datadog was recommended based on the features provided."
"It is easy to navigate the menu and create tests."
"Datadog has given us near-live visibility across our entire cloud platform."
"The full stack of integrations made it easier to monitor the different technologies and platform providers, including Software as a Service providers, that otherwise would need a lot of work and customization to be able to see what is happening."
"I like that you can build out a dashboard pretty quickly. There are some things that come out of the box that you don't really need to do, which is great because they're default settings."
"It has turned into an operational dashboard. If you felt something is going wrong, you can immediately open up Datadog. It has been our go to application because we know the answer will be there."
"Datadog has so far been a breeze to use and set up."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"The most beneficial aspect of Slunk APM is the ATM, which is the map displaying the inbound and outbound relationships of the microservices, as well as the traffic between these dependencies. This feature provides us with valuable insights and helps us understand the interactions between different microservices."
"The volume it handles is very good, including the number of metrics, the volume number of traces, and more."
"This solution is very quick to deploy as it is a SaaS solution and integrates with tools like ServiceNow."
"Splunk's dashboards are great."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"Detectors are a powerful feature."
"The most valuable feature is dashboard creation."
"We would like to see smaller or shorter tutorials and video sessions."
"I want to applaud the efforts in making the UI extremely usable and approachable. My suggestion would be to take another look at how the menu structure is put together, however. Even after using the platform mostly every day for months, I still find myself trying to find a service or feature in the menus."
"There is always room for improvement when dealing with cloud-based technologies. Mainly, I would say, it's just increasing our offerings to attract various other types of industries and businesses across more fields."
"More granular control over dashboard sharing. Timeboard sharing."
"Datadog could always lower the price!"
"We primarily use the log management functionality, and the only feedback I have there is better fuzzy text searching in logs (the kind that Kibana has)."
"Datadog has a lot of features kind of cramped into one dashboard. It's quite hard to get around what feature does exactly what. There was a steep learning curve, trying to navigate through menus."
"The ease of implementation needs improvement."
"Primarily, the logs in Slunk APM can be challenging to navigate and comprehend, making it difficult to understand the details within each log. Compared to other tools like LogDNA, which are more intuitive in this aspect, the logs in Slunk APM can require more effort to understand."
"It is essential for the monitoring tool to deliver quick response times when generating analytical reports, instead of prolonged delays."
"The cardinality is pretty low."
"Splunk APM should include a better correlation between resources and infrastructure monitoring."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"Splunk's functionality could be improved by adding database connectors for other platforms like AWS and Azure."
"We currently lack log analysis capabilities in Splunk APM."
"There are some predefined metrics.......we may want to create customized metrics."
Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 137 reviews while Splunk APM is ranked 13th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 13 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Splunk APM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk APM writes "Provides great visibility, analysis, and data telemetry". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas Splunk APM is most compared with Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), Sentry, Elastic Observability, Monte Carlo and Chronosphere. See our Datadog vs. Splunk APM report.
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