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."It has provided visibility with ease of implementation and allowed multiple teams to quickly onboard it."
"The most valuable aspect is for us to have everything in one place."
"Excellent autocomplete for everything in the UI."
"APM and tracing are super useful."
"The solution has helped our organization with custom events to track specific cases."
"The most useful feature is the APM."
"The interface and the integrations make it so easy to connect to the cloud or to the on-premise environment."
"The solution is sufficiently stable."
"The product can scale."
"The documentation leaves a lot to be desired for new users."
"This service could be less costly."
"The solution should provide alerts for cloud outages."
"The on-premise version is very difficult to upgrade."
"The menu on the left is pretty dense (and I know it has to be). I never knew about the cmd+k functionality until recently. It would be helpful to offer more tips/cheat sheets to see handy shortcuts like that."
"The ease of implementation needs improvement."
"Auto instrumentation on tracing has not been very easy to find in the documentation."
"I often have issues with the UI in my browser."
"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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