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"
"Profiling has been made easier."
"Anything I've wanted to do, I found a way to get it done through Datadog."
"Using the data, our operation teams works with the dashboards to get their statistics, analytics, etc."
"The solution has helped our organization with custom events to track specific cases."
"Sometimes it's more user friendly for development teams. There are some parts of Datadog that are more understandable for development teams. For example, the APM in Datadog works more manually and works like the tools in New Relic or Grafana, or Elastic. It is easier to understand for software development teams."
"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."
"Datadog provides tracing and logging, whereas Dynatrace focuses on tracing, and Splunk is more of a logging tool. Datadog's advantage is that we don't need two tools."
"It is great that creating an incident is possible from Slack while having all the relevant data in Datadog."
"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."
"I often have issues with the UI in my browser."
"The error traceability is an area that can be improved."
"The solution needs to integrate AI tools."
"I found the solution to be stable, I did not experience any bugs or glitches. However, some of the managing team did."
"I sometimes log in and see items changed, either in the UI or a feature enabled. To see it for the first time without proper communication can sometimes come as a shock."
"This service could be less costly."
"I'd like to see better pricing and more integration in the next release."
"The setup was a bit complex."
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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