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 has empowered all our platform engineers with a very powerful and easy to use monitoring system."
"It has a high-level insight into the infrastructure model of the application and provides important detailed data on the host and metrics, which is the main concern of our customers."
"It brings in observability, monitoring, and alerting capabilities - all of which we need to operate at scale."
"It is great that creating an incident is possible from Slack while having all the relevant data in Datadog."
"The monitoring functionality, in general, and tagging infrastructure are great."
"The many dozens of integrations that the solution brings out of the box are excellent."
"Datadog is providing efficiency in the products we develop for the wireless device engineering department."
"We've been able to glean from the monitors what servers are down, and can alert the team in Slack."
"The product can scale."
"It can be overwhelming for new people as it has a lot of features."
"The solution should provide alerts for cloud outages."
"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."
"We want to reduce having to go to different screens to obtain all the information."
"ECS could be improved by including more tutorials for beginners to reduce the barriers to entry."
"We would like to see some versioning system for the Synthetic Tests so that we could have a backup of our tests since they are time-consuming to make and very easy to damage in a moment of error."
"Lately, chat support has a longer waiting time."
"Even though it is powerful on its own, the UI-based design lacks elegance, efficiency, and complexity."
"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 30th 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 AppDynamics, whereas Scout APM is most compared with Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic and Elastic Observability.
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