We performed a comparison between Datadog and Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) 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."Its logs are most valuable."
"The RUM solution has improved our ability to triage faster and hand more capabilities to our customer support."
"We integrate our application logs. It is great to be able to tie our metrics and our traces together."
"The web app has a real-time support chat window in which a support engineer is chatting with you within a minute."
"We enjoy the multistep API tests."
"The full stack of integrations made it easier to monitor the different technologies and platform providers, including Software as a Service providers, that otherwise would need a lot of work and customization to be able to see what is happening."
"Excellent autocomplete for everything in the UI."
"The solution has helped out organization gain improved visibility."
"The initial setup of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) was easy."
"It can have a more modernized pricing mechanism. We're actually working with them to figure out how to become more modular and have a better and more modernized pricing mechanism. The issue with Datadog is that you have to buy the whole suite of different products, and you kind of get stuck in the old utilization of 40% of their suite. Most organizations today break down between application development, networking, and security. Therefore, there should be a way to break down different modules into just app dev, infosec, networking, etc. Customers have various needs across their business lines, and sometimes, they're just not willing to have tools that they're not using 100%. AppDynamics is probably a little bit better in terms of being modular."
"When I started using it years ago, it had stability problems. I remember, specifically, we ran everything in Docker containers. There were some problems getting it into a Docker container with very specific memory limits."
"I would love to see more metrics or analytics in IoT devices."
"We'd like Datadog to make the log storage cheaper."
"We need more integration functionality, including certain metrics integration."
"They could have better log reporting."
"Some of the interface is still confusing to use."
"Additional metrics should be included."
"The initial setup of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) was easy. The solution is deployed on-premises."
Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 137 reviews while Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is ranked 40th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) writes "A stable tool with an easy setup phase that provides ease of use to its users". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is most compared with Prometheus, Sentry, Chronosphere and Splunk APM.
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