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."
"We have way more observability than what we had before - on the application and the overall system."
"The many dozens of integrations that the solution brings out of the box are excellent."
"The CCM, Workflows, Logs, APM, and RUM are all useful aspects of the solution."
"Datadog has given us near-live visibility across our entire cloud platform."
"APM is great and has provided low-effort out-of-the-box observability for various services."
"I find the greatest feature is being able to search across logs from various microservices."
"Straightforward to integrate and automate."
"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."
"Technical support is always live and they're supportive."
"Some of the most valuable features of SolarWinds are the topology discovery and network performance analysis."
"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."
"It would be ideal if the product offered a bit more monitoring from our dashboard."
"The FinOps needs improvement."
"I found the documentation can sometimes be confusing."
"The way data is represented can be limiting. When I first tried it out a long time ago, you could graph a metric and another metric, and they'd overlay, but you couldn't take the ratio between the two."
"The on-premise version is very difficult to upgrade."
"The documentation could be improved regarding setting up the agent properly and debugging."
"They should continue expanding and integrating with more third-party apps."
"The integration with Unix services should be a bit more straightforward."
"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."
"I would like to see more integration with other tools that are available on the market."
"The implementation needs improvement. It needs to get modernized with the newer cloud scenario in both public and private deployment models."
"AppOptics would benefit from having a much more centralized view."
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 AppDynamics, whereas SolarWinds AppOptics is most compared with Dynatrace, SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, Zabbix, New Relic and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our Datadog vs. SolarWinds AppOptics report.
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