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."We integrate our application logs. It is great to be able to tie our metrics and our traces together."
"Datadog documentation on web pages has improved a lot and is pretty easy to follow and find."
"The solution has helped our organization with custom events to track specific cases."
"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 initial setup is very straightforward."
"The platform appeals to companies spanning many industries on a global scale."
"The solution is sufficiently stable."
"The most valuable aspect is the APM which can monitor the metrics and latencies."
"The product can scale."
"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."
"One thing we have run into is that it is so easy to add monitoring that we turn on things without really understanding the costs."
"The product could do better with its notifications."
"It can have a more modernized pricing mechanism. We're actually working with them to figure out how to become more modular and have a better and more modernized pricing mechanism. The issue with Datadog is that you have to buy the whole suite of different products, and you kind of get stuck in the old utilization of 40% of their suite. Most organizations today break down between application development, networking, and security. Therefore, there should be a way to break down different modules into just app dev, infosec, networking, etc. Customers have various needs across their business lines, and sometimes, they're just not willing to have tools that they're not using 100%. AppDynamics is probably a little bit better in terms of being modular."
"The dashboard could be improved. It would be helpful to get a view of specific things that we need to monitor for our application."
"Sometimes it’s difficult to customize certain queries to find specific things, specifically with the logging solution."
"Datadog does not have the feature where you can monitor external websites or check the SSL secure for websites."
"I'm not sure if Datadog can monitor K8s deployments in real-time. For instance, being able to see a deployment step by step visually. This would be helpful if there were any incidents during the deployment."
"I can't recall coming across any missing features."
Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 136 reviews while Scout APM is ranked 29th 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, New Relic, Grafana and Elastic Observability.
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