We performed a comparison between Datadog and Scout APM 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 find they have a very helpful alert system."
"I have found some of the most valuable features to be the way things all come together that gives us a point of view that is useful. The panel is very beautiful and customizable."
"Going from viewing a metric to creating a monitor alerting on a metric is very easy."
"The observability on offer is the most useful aspect of the product."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the APM."
"The management of SLOs and their related burn-rate monitors have allowed us to onboard teams to on-call fast."
"The biggest thing I liked was the combination of all the things - monitoring, log aggregation, and profiling."
"It is easy to implement and scale applications with standardized visibility, monitoring and alerting"
"The product can scale."
"While the tool is robust with many different capabilities, users would greatly benefit from more examples in the documentation."
"At the beginning, when we started throwing logs at it, there was a bit of hiccup. However, this was during their beta period, so hiccups were expected."
"I found the documentation can sometimes be confusing."
"More granular control over dashboard sharing. Timeboard sharing."
"The documentation leaves a lot to be desired for new users."
"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."
"The setup was a bit complex."
"I would like testing for data in the future."
"I can't recall coming across any missing features."
Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 137 reviews while Scout APM is ranked 32nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Scout APM is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Scout APM writes "Great visibility and reliability with fair pricing". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas Scout APM is most compared with Zabbix, Prometheus, New Relic, Grafana and Elastic Observability.
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