We performed a comparison between Amazon OpenSearch Service and Datadog 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."We retrieve historical data with just a click of a button to move it from cold to hot or warm because it's already stored in the backend storage"
"The RUM solution has improved our ability to triage faster and hand more capabilities to our customer support."
"It is easy to navigate the menu and create tests."
"I have found the logging and tracing features the most valuable."
"The dashboards are great."
"I have found error reporting and log centralization the most valuable features. Overall, Datadog provides a full package solution."
"It provides more cloud data. They tend to just get the way a service would be designed on the cloud."
"The solution has offered increased visibility via logging APM, metrics, RUM, etc."
"We've found it most useful for managing Rstudio Workbench, which has its own logs that would not be picked up via Cloudwatch."
"It would be beneficial to have some level of customization available in the managed service, tailored to the specific use cases of the end users."
"I would love to see more metrics or analytics in IoT devices."
"It lacks consistency in the APIs."
"I find the training great. That said, it is set for the LCD (lowest common denominator). Of course, this is very helpful to sell the product, yet, to really utilize the product, you need to get more detailed."
"Once Datadog has gained wide adoption, it can often be overwhelming to both know and understand where to go to find answers to questions."
"I'm still exploring the trial version, and it is fine. One thing that I haven't been able to figure out is how to retrieve a report. This is something that could be improved. I probably need to navigate to a place to access the reports."
"Graph filters for logs need to be set manually which works well for JSON but not for unstructured logs."
"Lacks some flexibility in the customization."
"We have recently had a number of issues with stability and delays on logging, monitoring, metric evaluation, and alerts."
Amazon OpenSearch Service is ranked 51st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review while Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 137 reviews. Amazon OpenSearch Service is rated 7.0, while Datadog is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon OpenSearch Service writes "A managed solution that provides login authentication but has high cost". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". Amazon OpenSearch Service is most compared with Grafana Loki, Amazon CloudWatch, Zabbix and Security Onion, whereas Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability.
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