We compared Datadog and Splunk APM based on our users' reviews in five parameters and you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Users appreciate Datadog's user-friendly interface, ease of use, and seamless setup. Its extensive integrations, troubleshooting capabilities, and instrumentation features are highly valuable. Additionally, Datadog offers flexibility and observability, along with a wide array of additional features. On the other hand, while Splunk APM is also considered user-friendly and quick to deploy, it lacks customization options and has challenging log navigation, resulting in slower performance. Despite being somewhat expensive, Datadog's pricing is justified due to its value and flexibility, whereas Splunk APM's pricing is reasonable. The customer service and support for both products generate mixed reviews, but Datadog generally receives positive feedback for its helpful and responsive support.
"It is easy to implement and scale applications with standardized visibility, monitoring and alerting"
"The solution allows flexibility and heightened observability for presenting data, creating indicators, and setting service-level objectives."
"The ease with which we can filter, use metrics, and give accounts to customers, then let the customer filter, set up metrics, and alerts. This has been a big win for us."
"With Datadog I can look at the health of the technology stack and services."
"The CCM, Workflows, Logs, APM, and RUM are all useful aspects of the solution."
"Even if we don't end up using Datadog, it revealed problems and optimizations to us that weren't obvious before."
"I find the greatest feature is being able to search across logs from various microservices."
"The Datadog suite has allowed us to easily integrate log collection into all of our services and quickly detect unexpected changes in system data to declare security incidents."
"The solution's service map feature allows us to have a holistic overview and to see quickly where the issues are."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"Detectors are a powerful feature."
"The most valuable features are troubleshooting and optimizing application performance."
"I like the fact that Splunk APM makes it easy to connect to the application database and run queries against the data."
"This solution is very quick to deploy as it is a SaaS solution and integrates with tools like ServiceNow."
"Splunk APM has helped us to standardize logging and monitoring procedures."
"All solutions have some area to improve, and in Datadog they can improve their overall technology moving forward."
"As a new customer, the Datadog user interface is a bit daunting."
"The parallel editing of the dashboards should not cause users to lose the work of another person."
"Since the Datadog platform has so many separate features, solving so many use cases, there are often inconsistencies in feature availability and interoperability between products."
"Datadog does not have the feature where you can monitor external websites or check the SSL secure for websites."
"It lacks consistency in the APIs."
"I would love to see more metrics or analytics in IoT devices."
"Alerting timing should be improved to be more fine-tuned and exact."
"It is essential for the monitoring tool to deliver quick response times when generating analytical reports, instead of prolonged delays."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"Splunk APM's performance could be improved - at the moment, it's very slow and takes forever to give me what I want."
"The cardinality is pretty low."
"The licensing model is expensive. We need to monitor the amount of data ingested because the cost is based on the data collected."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"They can improve the flow system and the keyword language. It has predefined keywords, but they can be improved."
"Splunk APM should include a better correlation between resources and infrastructure monitoring."
Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 137 reviews while Splunk APM is ranked 13th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 12 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Splunk APM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk APM writes "Provides great visibility, analysis, and data telemetry". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas Splunk APM is most compared with Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), Sentry, Elastic Observability and Monte Carlo. See our Datadog vs. Splunk APM report.
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