We performed a comparison between Datadog and SolarWinds AppOptics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Its logs are most valuable."
"The most valuable feature I have found is the elastic container service."
"It has a nice UI."
"We like the distributed tracing and flame graphs for debugging. This has been invaluable for us during periods of high traffic or red alert conditions."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboards that are provided out of the box, as well as ones we were able to configure."
"It is easy to implement and scale applications with standardized visibility, monitoring and alerting"
"Even if we don't end up using Datadog, it revealed problems and optimizations to us that weren't obvious before."
"The installation step is pretty straightforward."
"The sum solution, NTA, and DPA."
"The product has a great dashboard."
"I have found the most valuable feature is application performance management."
"The reporting of the solution is very good."
"Some of the most valuable features of SolarWinds are the topology discovery and network performance analysis."
"Technical support is always live and they're supportive."
"The real issue with this product is cost control."
"It can be overwhelming for new people as it has a lot of features."
"Sometimes it’s difficult to customize certain queries to find specific things, specifically with the logging solution."
"I've only been using Datadog for a few months, and at first, it was frankly overwhelming in terms of both the UI and the available capabilities."
"The sheer amount of products that are included can be overwhelming."
"To be very fair, I haven't had enough experience with Datadog to pick out improvements."
"More granular control over dashboard sharing. Timeboard sharing."
"The solution should provide alerts for cloud outages."
"The implementation needs improvement. It needs to get modernized with the newer cloud scenario in both public and private deployment models."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"In terms of the technology, I think they need to put some more advanced troubleshooting into SolarWinds, in terms of AI capabilities. That's the next generation, especially in the cases of APIs which have already adopted AI capabilities into their products."
"The integration with Unix services should be a bit more straightforward."
"AppOptics would benefit from having a much more centralized view."
"I would like to see more integration with other tools that are available on the market."
Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 137 reviews while SolarWinds AppOptics is ranked 44th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 9 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while SolarWinds AppOptics is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds AppOptics writes "Unique features allow consolidating and combing metrics into a single dashboard, but don't monitor mobile solutions". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas SolarWinds AppOptics is most compared with Dynatrace, SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, Zabbix, Splunk Enterprise Security and New Relic. See our Datadog vs. SolarWinds AppOptics report.
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