We performed a comparison between Datadog and Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Users have favorable things to say in regards to Datadog's ease of use, convenient setup, useful dashboards, error reporting, log centralization, and troubleshooting features as well as the user-friendliness for development teams. It has a nice interface and is flexible. Google Cloud's operations suite is praised for its easy setup and monitoring capabilities. Datadog could enhance its usability, integration, user interface, learning curve, external website monitoring, SSL security, and setup complexity. Google Cloud's operations suite would benefit from extra metrics and tools, enhanced application logs, stability, improved logging functionality, and increased profiling capabilities.
Service and Support: The opinions about Datadog's customer service vary, with some users appreciating the quick and useful assistance they provide. However, there have been instances where support has been slow or unresponsive. Google Cloud's operations suite is known for its excellent technical support, although certain users have not required assistance from customer service.
Ease of Deployment: Datadog's initial setup is regarded as simple and uncomplicated, with help accessible from service providers or technical support. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) has a direct setup process managed by the DevOps team, with excellent documentation provided for assistance.
Pricing: Users have expressed mixed opinions regarding the setup cost of Datadog's product. Some find it to be expensive and confusing, and others feel that it is restrictive or unclear. Google Cloud's operations suite is viewed as a concern due to its pricing, although one user considers it to be very cheap.
ROI: Users have experienced varying levels of ROI with Datadog, with benefits such as time savings and reduced blind spots. On the other hand, Google Cloud's operations suite has consistently delivered a positive ROI for users.
Comparison Results: Datadog is the preferred choice when compared to Google Cloud's operations suite. Users appreciate Datadog's ease of use, convenient setup, useful dashboards, error reporting, log centralization, and troubleshooting features. They also value Datadog's user-friendliness for development teams, interface and integrations, flexibility, and observability.
"Since we integrated Datadog, we have had increased confidence in the quality of our service, and we had an easier time increasing our delivery velocity."
"The most valuable aspect is for us to have everything in one place."
"By moving to Datadog, we did not need to manage our own monitoring infrastructure anymore."
"Its integration is most valuable because you can integrate it with various service providers such as AWS, .Net, etc."
"Datadog is providing efficiency in the products we develop for the wireless device engineering department."
"The solution has helped out organization gain improved visibility."
"Datadog has proven to be easy to set up and legible for both development and operational teams."
"It has scaled great. I haven't run into any problems anywhere that I've used it. They have handled everything that we have needed them to."
"It's easy to use."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its graphs - if I need any statistics, in Kubernetes or Kong level or VPN level, I can quickly get the reports."
"The most valuable feature is the multi-cloud integration, where there is support for both GCP and AWS."
"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."
"I like the monitoring feature."
"Google's technical support is very good."
"We find the solution to be stable."
"The cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently use."
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"I think better access to their engineers when we have a problem could be better."
"The product could do better with its notifications."
"We would like to see smaller or shorter tutorials and video sessions."
"One area where I was really looking for improvement was the CSPM product line. I had really wanted to have team-level visibility for findings, since the team managing the resources has much more context and ability to resolve the issue, as the service owner. However, this has been added to the announcement in a recent keynote."
"I've only been using Datadog for a few months, and at first, it was frankly overwhelming in terms of both the UI and the available capabilities."
"The pricing is a bit confusing."
"The error traceability is an area that can be improved."
"The ease of implementation needs improvement."
"If I want to track any round-trip or breakdowns of my response times, I'm not able to get it. My request goes through various levels of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and comes back to my client machine. Suppose that my request has taken 10 seconds overall, so if I want to break it down, to see where the delay is happening within my architecture, I am not able to find that out using Stackdriver."
"While we are satisfied with the overall performance, in certain cases we must add additional metrics and additional tools like Grafana and Dynatrace."
"This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana."
"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
"The logging functionality could be better."
"It could be even more automated."
"It could be more stable."
"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."
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Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 137 reviews while Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is ranked 24th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 9 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) writes "Good logging and tracing but does need more profiling capabilities". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Amazon CloudWatch, whereas Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Azure Monitor, Amazon CloudWatch, Grafana and Prometheus. See our Datadog vs. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) report.
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