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."Having a clear view, not only of our infrastructure but our apps and services as well, has brought a great added value to our customers."
"It provides more cloud data. They tend to just get the way a service would be designed on the cloud."
"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."
"Straightforward to integrate and automate."
"The dashboards and the performance of the software have been great."
"We have found that we're able to get in and out of troubleshooting issues much more rapidly, which in turn, of course, enables us to spend more time on our products."
"The tool's deployment is easy."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboards that are provided out of the box, as well as ones we were able to configure."
"The product can scale."
"The current way accounts are billed could be vastly improved - especially when involving multiple organizations across multiple accounts in combination with reserved commitments."
"Datadog could make their use cases more visible either through their docs or tutorial videos."
"Auto instrumentation on tracing has not been very easy to find in the documentation."
"We have asked technical support questions, and sometimes they don't get back to us right away. Or when they do, it is not the right answer."
"Datadog needs more local Asia-Pacific support, and if they don't have a SaaS solution in Asia-Pacific, they should offer an on-prem version. I'm told that's not possible."
"Since the Datadog platform has so many separate features, solving so many use cases, there are often inconsistencies in feature availability and interoperability between products."
"Datadog could have a better business analysis module."
"The pricing is a bit confusing."
"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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