We performed a comparison between Datadog and Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) 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."This is definitely a good product and I would consider them one of the leaders within the application monitoring and cloud monitoring space."
"Datadog helps us detect issues early on and helps in troubleshooting."
"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."
"Overall, the Data UI and the usability of customer features continue to improve."
"The ease of correcting these dashboards and widgets when needed is amazing."
"The fact that everything is under a single pane of glass is really valuable, as developers don't have to spend their time copying correlation IDs across tools to find what they need."
"We've been able to glean from the monitors what servers are down, and can alert the team in Slack."
"It has empowered all our platform engineers with a very powerful and easy to use monitoring system."
"The initial setup of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) was easy."
"It can be overwhelming for new people as it has a lot of features."
"The dashboard could be improved. It would be helpful to get a view of specific things that we need to monitor for our application."
"It would be nice to be able to graph metrics by excluding certain tags (like you can do in monitors)."
"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."
"While the tool is robust with many different capabilities, users would greatly benefit from more examples in the documentation."
"The solution should provide alerts for cloud outages."
"Its pricing model can be improved. Its settings should be improved for a better understanding of billing. They should also provide some alerts when there is an increase in the usage. For example, if there is 20% more increase from one week to another, the customer should get an alert."
"It would be ideal if the product offered a bit more monitoring from our dashboard."
"The initial setup of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) was easy. The solution is deployed on-premises."
Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 137 reviews while Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is ranked 42nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) writes "A stable tool with an easy setup phase that provides ease of use to its users". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is most compared with Prometheus, Sentry, Chronosphere and Splunk APM.
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