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."It brings in observability, monitoring, and alerting capabilities - all of which we need to operate at scale."
"We rely heavily on the API crawlers that Datadog uses for cloud integrations. These allow us to pick up and leverage the tags teams have already deployed without having also to make them add them at the agent level."
"Using the data, our operation teams works with the dashboards to get their statistics, analytics, etc."
"It has empowered all our platform engineers with a very powerful and easy to use monitoring system."
"It provides more cloud data. They tend to just get the way a service would be designed on the cloud."
"APM is great and has provided low-effort out-of-the-box observability for various services."
"Even if we don't end up using Datadog, it revealed problems and optimizations to us that weren't obvious before."
"The monitoring functionality, in general, and tagging infrastructure are great."
"The product can scale."
"To be very fair, I haven't had enough experience with Datadog to pick out improvements."
"The FinOps needs improvement."
"Alerting timing should be improved to be more fine-tuned and exact."
"One thing we have run into is that it is so easy to add monitoring that we turn on things without really understanding the costs."
"The on-premise version is very difficult to upgrade."
"ECS could be improved by including more tutorials for beginners to reduce the barriers to entry."
"They should continue expanding and integrating with more third-party apps."
"I would like better navigability across pages."
"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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