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.
"Datadog has flexibility."
"Using the data, our operation teams works with the dashboards to get their statistics, analytics, etc."
"It is a good one stop location where we keep all our data for our infrastructure, and it's also easier to navigate between different things."
"Sometimes it's more user friendly for development teams. There are some parts of Datadog that are more understandable for development teams. For example, the APM in Datadog works more manually and works like the tools in New Relic or Grafana, or Elastic. It is easier to understand for software development teams."
"It provides more cloud data. They tend to just get the way a service would be designed on the cloud."
"It has turned into an operational dashboard. If you felt something is going wrong, you can immediately open up Datadog. It has been our go to application because we know the answer will be there."
"The product has offered increased visibility via logging APM, metrics, RUM, etc."
"Having a clear view, not only of our infrastructure but our apps and services as well, has brought a great added value to our customers."
"Splunk APM has helped us to standardize logging and monitoring procedures."
"I like the fact that Splunk APM makes it easy to connect to the application database and run queries against the data."
"The most valuable features are troubleshooting and optimizing application performance."
"This solution is very quick to deploy as it is a SaaS solution and integrates with tools like ServiceNow."
"It is a good tool. It allows you to set alerts for application and infrastructure monitoring, and it allows you to create dashboards."
"The features are pretty much ready out of the box."
"The most beneficial aspect of Slunk APM is the ATM, which is the map displaying the inbound and outbound relationships of the microservices, as well as the traffic between these dependencies. This feature provides us with valuable insights and helps us understand the interactions between different microservices."
"Splunk's dashboards are great."
"We have contact with many customers that cover many areas, so we have cases where the infrastructure administration could be improved."
"Delta traces on the Golang profiler are extremely expensive concerning memory utilization."
"Geo-data is also something very critical that we hope to see in the future."
"All solutions have some area to improve, and in Datadog they can improve their overall technology moving forward."
"I want to applaud the efforts in making the UI extremely usable and approachable. My suggestion would be to take another look at how the menu structure is put together, however. Even after using the platform mostly every day for months, I still find myself trying to find a service or feature in the menus."
"I found the documentation can sometimes be confusing."
"Stability of the product has been a concern for us outside of the primary monitoring agents."
"The ease of implementation needs improvement."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"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."
"The licensing model is expensive. We need to monitor the amount of data ingested because the cost is based on the data collected."
"Splunk APM should include a better correlation between resources and infrastructure monitoring."
"Splunk APM's performance could be improved - at the moment, it's very slow and takes forever to give me what I want."
"It is essential for the monitoring tool to deliver quick response times when generating analytical reports, instead of prolonged delays."
"I've been using the Splunk query language, and it can be a bit time-consuming to set up the queries I need."
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 13 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, Monte Carlo, Elastic Observability and Chronosphere. See our Datadog vs. Splunk APM report.
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