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."Overall, the Data UI and the usability of customer features continue to improve."
"The observability on offer is the most useful aspect of the product."
"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 observability pipelines are the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"The most valuable aspects of the product include the APM and profiler."
"It has saved us a lot of trouble in implementation."
"The management of SLOs and their related burn-rate monitors have allowed us to onboard teams to on-call fast."
"The visibility into our network has allowed for quick diagnosis of failures, identification of underutilized or over-utilized resources, and allowed for cloud cost optimization opportunities."
"The product can scale."
"Datadog is so feature-rich that it is often hard to onboard new folks and tough to decide where to invest time."
"The sheer amount of products that are included can be overwhelming."
"The current way accounts are billed could be vastly improved - especially when involving multiple organizations across multiple accounts in combination with reserved commitments."
"Managing dashboards as IaC is a bit hard to work out at times."
"To be very fair, I haven't had enough experience with Datadog to pick out improvements."
"It seems that admin cost control granularity is an afterthought."
"There is always room for improvement when dealing with cloud-based technologies. Mainly, I would say, it's just increasing our offerings to attract various other types of industries and businesses across more fields."
"The product could do better with its notifications."
"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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