We compared Datadog and Splunk APM based on our users' reviews in five parameters and you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Users appreciate Datadog's user-friendly interface, ease of use, and seamless setup. Its extensive integrations, troubleshooting capabilities, and instrumentation features are highly valuable. Additionally, Datadog offers flexibility and observability, along with a wide array of additional features. On the other hand, while Splunk APM is also considered user-friendly and quick to deploy, it lacks customization options and has challenging log navigation, resulting in slower performance. Despite being somewhat expensive, Datadog's pricing is justified due to its value and flexibility, whereas Splunk APM's pricing is reasonable. The customer service and support for both products generate mixed reviews, but Datadog generally receives positive feedback for its helpful and responsive support.
"It has a nice UI."
"I don't have to worry about upgrades with the AWS version."
"The most valuable features have been: Sharable dashboards, TimeBoards, dogstatsd API, Slack Integration, Event logging API. CloudTrail Events, Tags, alerts, and anomaly detection. EBS Volume Snapshot Age, which they added upon request."
"The ability to send notifications based on metadata from the monitor is helpful."
"Datadog has proven to be easy to set up and legible for both development and operational teams."
"Profiling has been made easier."
"The most valuable features of Datadog are the flexibility and additional features when compared to other solutions, such as AppDynamics and Dynatrace. Some of the features include AI and ML capabilities and cloud and analysis monitoring"
"Because of our client focus, it is easy for us to sell. This is because it is easy to use and easy to set up."
"The most valuable features are troubleshooting and optimizing application performance."
"The solution's service map feature allows us to have a holistic overview and to see quickly where the issues are."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"Splunk APM has helped us to standardize logging and monitoring procedures."
"Splunk's dashboards are great."
"It is a good tool. It allows you to set alerts for application and infrastructure monitoring, and it allows you to create dashboards."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"The most beneficial aspect of Slunk APM is the ATM, which is the map displaying the inbound and outbound relationships of the microservices, as well as the traffic between these dependencies. This feature provides us with valuable insights and helps us understand the interactions between different microservices."
"I would love to see support for front-end and mobile applications. Right now, it is mostly all back-end stuff. Being able to do some integration with our front-end products would be awesome."
"When it comes to storing the logs with Datadog, I'm not sure why it costs so much to store gigabytes or terabytes of information when it's a fraction of the cost to do so myself."
"Datadog has a lot of features kind of cramped into one dashboard. It's quite hard to get around what feature does exactly what. There was a steep learning curve, trying to navigate through menus."
"All solutions have some area to improve, and in Datadog they can improve their overall technology moving forward."
"Sometimes, it takes a long time to load the dashboard if we have many charts."
"The solution should provide alerts for cloud outages."
"Datadog lacks a deeper application-level insight. Their competitors had eclipsed them in offering ET functionality that was important to us. That's why we stopped using it and switched to New Relic. Datadog's price is also high."
"Once Datadog has gained wide adoption, it can often be overwhelming to both know and understand where to go to find answers to questions."
"They can improve the flow system and the keyword language. It has predefined keywords, but they can be improved."
"Splunk APM's performance could be improved - at the moment, it's very slow and takes forever to give me what I want."
"Splunk APM should include a better correlation between resources and infrastructure monitoring."
"There are some predefined metrics.......we may want to create customized metrics."
"We currently lack log analysis capabilities in Splunk APM."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"The licensing model is expensive. We need to monitor the amount of data ingested because the cost is based on the data collected."
"Splunk's functionality could be improved by adding database connectors for other platforms like AWS and Azure."
Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 137 reviews while Splunk APM is ranked 13th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 13 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Splunk APM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk APM writes "Provides great visibility, analysis, and data telemetry". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas Splunk APM is most compared with Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), Sentry, Elastic Observability, Monte Carlo and Chronosphere. See our Datadog vs. Splunk APM report.
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