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."With Datadog I can look at the health of the technology stack and services."
"The dashboards are great."
"The most useful feature is the APM."
"Datadog's seamless integration with Slack and PagerDuty helped us to receive alerts right to the most common notification methods we use (our mobile devices and Slack)."
"Integrating Datadog with other platforms has made our monitoring processes a bit easier. It's not super simple, but it's manageable."
"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."
"The interface and the integrations make it so easy to connect to the cloud or to the on-premise environment."
"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 can scale."
"The ease of implementation needs improvement."
"Their security features could be improved. We looked at their Security Monitoring feature but it was early in its development. Datadog are just getting into the security space so I'm sure this will improve in the future."
"The parallel editing of the dashboards should not cause users to lose the work of another person."
"Since the Datadog platform has so many separate features, solving so many use cases, there are often inconsistencies in feature availability and interoperability between products."
"The error traceability is an area that can be improved."
"The pricing should be less of a surprise."
"Lately, chat support has a longer waiting time."
"Delta traces on the Golang profiler are extremely expensive concerning memory utilization."
"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 30th 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 AppDynamics, whereas Scout APM is most compared with Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic and Elastic Observability.
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