Compare Datadog vs. Micro Focus Real User Monitor
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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
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"This is definitely a good product and I would consider them one of the leaders within the application monitoring and cloud monitoring space." "Datadog's ability to group and visualize the servers and the data makes it relatively easy for the root cause analysis." "Straightforward to integrate and automate." "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." "Having a wealth of information has helped us investigate outages, and having historical data helps us tune our system." "The most valuable features are logging, the extensive set of integrations, and easy jumpstart." "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." "The most valuable feature is the dashboards that are provided out of the box, as well as ones we were able to configure." | "The Real User Monitor, with its transaction and synthetic transaction monitoring, is the typical classic in APM cases when the customer would like to do transaction monitoring. Micro Focus scores better where the underlying infrastructure management is also covered by Micro Focus tools." "The most valuable feature is application performance monitoring." "The technical support is good at resolving issues." |
Cons | |
"Additional metrics should be included." "Datadog lacks a deeper application-level insight. Their competitors had eclipsed them in offering ET functionality that was important to us. That's why we stopped using it and switched to New Relic. Datadog's price is also high." "Could be a little more user friendly." "The error traceability is an area that can be improved." "The pricing model could be simplified as it feels a bit outdated, especially when you look at the billing model of compute instances vs the containers instances." "Datadog has a lot of documentation, but a lot of that documentation assumes you know how the service works, which can lead to confusion." "In the past two years, there have been a couple of outages." "The incident management beta looks promising, but it is still missing the ability to automatically create incidents based on certain alerts." | "One area to improve is the user interface, of course. The second one is their R&D has virtually stopped building a product roadmap." "We would like to see support for non-Windows environments." "When we want to monitor our encrypted traffic, this product doesn't work because our cipher is not supported." |
Pricing and Cost Advice | |
"It didn't scale well from the cost perspective. We had a custom package deal." "The price is better than some competing products." "Pricing is somewhat affordable compared to other solutions but in order to really lower the costs of other products you need to plan very carefully your resources usage, otherwise, it can get expensive real quick." "It is easy to run up a large bill, so become familiar with the cost of each piece of your bill and use the metrics they supply to estimate and monitor your bill." "Pricing seemed easy until the bill came in and some things were not accounted for." | "The price is approximately €30,000 ($35,500 USD) for the enterprise edition." More Micro Focus Real User Monitor Pricing and Cost Advice » |
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Questions from the Community | |
Top Answer: This is definitely a good product and I would consider them one of the leaders within the application monitoring and cloud monitoring space. Top Answer: Additional metrics should be included. Better integration with other solutions is needed. Top Answer: We are a solution provider and Datadog is one of the products that I was working on with one of my clients. They are currently evaluating it for use in cloud monitoring. Specifically, Datadog is used… more » | Ask a question Earn 20 points |
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Views 33,446 Comparisons 27,766 Reviews 7 Average Words per Review 548 Rating 8.1 | Views 732 Comparisons 566 Reviews 3 Average Words per Review 638 Rating 5.0 |
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Also Known As | |
| Micro Focus RUM, HPE RUM, MF RUM | |
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| Datadog | Micro Focus |
Overview | |
| Datadog is a monitoring service for IT, Dev and Ops teams who write and run applications at scale, and want to turn the massive amounts of data produced by their apps, tools and services into actionable insight. | Real User Monitoring (RUM) an End user monitoring that gives you visibility into user behavior for fast, targeted problem resolution. It monitors the performance and availability of business-critical application services for all users at all locations all the time. It automatically discovers underlying infrastructure and classifies user actions - giving you instant visibility into session and whole service health over web, cloud, and mobile user experience. It allows you to trace user experience across tiers, capture live sessions, see where customers clicked, measure response times, and see pages that caused problems. And you can easily capture and replay user sessions to create test scripts that reflect real user behavior. All this data gives you new ability to analyze which application transactions your users are performing and what application response they are experiencing. RUM currently supports over 20 application protocols and applications such as SAP, Citrix, and native mobile application monitoring on Android. |
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Sample Customers | |
| Adobe, Samsung, facebook, HP Cloud Services, Electronic Arts, salesforce, Stanford University, CiTRIX, Chef, zendesk, Hearst Magazines, Spotify, mercardo libre, Slashdot, Ziff Davis, PBS, MLS, The Motley Fool, Politico, Barneby's | Avea, Maccabi Healthcare Services, TEB |
Top Industries | |
Financial Services Firm14% Comms Service Provider14% Computer Software Company14% Educational Organization14% Computer Software Company33% Comms Service Provider17% Media Company7% Financial Services Firm6% | Computer Software Company34% Comms Service Provider20% Media Company7% Insurance Company5% |
Company Size | |
Small Business45% Midsize Enterprise32% Large Enterprise23% Small Business33% Midsize Enterprise9% Large Enterprise58% | No Data Available |
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog vs. Micro Focus Real User Monitor and other solutions. Updated: January 2021.
456,249 professionals have used our research since 2012.
Datadog is ranked 4th in Application Performance Management (APM) with 9 reviews while Micro Focus Real User Monitor is ranked 36th in Application Performance Management (APM) with 3 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.8, while Micro Focus Real User Monitor is rated 5.0. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Good graphing and dashboards, and it improves visibility for developers". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Micro Focus Real User Monitor writes "An expensive product with an old design that needs to be more lightweight". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Splunk, New Relic APM, Azure Monitor and Zabbix, whereas Micro Focus Real User Monitor is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, AppDynamics and Google Stackdriver. See our Datadog vs. Micro Focus Real User Monitor report.
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