We performed a comparison between Datadog and Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) 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."Anything I've wanted to do, I found a way to get it done through Datadog."
"It brings in observability, monitoring, and alerting capabilities - all of which we need to operate at scale."
"Datadog dashboards are pretty great."
"Having a wealth of information has helped us investigate outages, and having historical data helps us tune our system."
"Datadog's log aggregation is really helpful since it lets me and every other engineer on my team login, view, and share logs when we need to debug our application."
"We enjoy the multistep API tests."
"The performance of Datadog is good."
"Datadog has helped us a ton by allowing us to set up a multitude of easily configurable alarms across our tech stack and infrastructure."
"The initial setup of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) was easy."
"We need a lot of modules since we collect all data logs from all operating systems."
"The logging could be improved in the future."
"I found the solution to be stable, I did not experience any bugs or glitches. However, some of the managing team did."
"More granular control over dashboard sharing. Timeboard sharing."
"Even though it is powerful on its own, the UI-based design lacks elegance, efficiency, and complexity."
"It would be nice to be able to graph metrics by excluding certain tags (like you can do in monitors)."
"ECS could be improved by including more tutorials for beginners to reduce the barriers to entry."
"As a new customer, the Datadog user interface is a bit daunting."
"The initial setup of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) was easy. The solution is deployed on-premises."
Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 137 reviews while Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is ranked 40th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) writes "A stable tool with an easy setup phase that provides ease of use to its users". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is most compared with Prometheus, Sentry, Chronosphere and Splunk APM.
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