We performed a comparison between Datadog and SolarWinds AppOptics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The flexibility to create notebooks and dashboards and fully customize them gives us a lot of power to track the exact services and endpoints we are working on."
"We have hundreds of microservices, and knowing how top-level requests weave throughout all of them is invaluable."
"By moving to Datadog, we did not need to manage our own monitoring infrastructure anymore."
"We like the distributed tracing and flame graphs for debugging. This has been invaluable for us during periods of high traffic or red alert conditions."
"We have a better grasp of what is occurring during the deployment cycle. If something fails, we have an idea what has failed, where it has failed, and how it failed to better mitigate the situation."
"Datadog is constantly adding new features."
"The solution has helped our organization with custom events to track specific cases."
"Datadog has flexibility."
"The sum solution, NTA, and DPA."
"Technical support is always live and they're supportive."
"Some of the most valuable features of SolarWinds are the topology discovery and network performance analysis."
"I have found the most valuable feature is application performance management."
"The reporting of the solution is very good."
"The product has a great dashboard."
"The product is quite complex, and there are so many features that I either didn't know about or wasn't sure how to use."
"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."
"This service could be less costly."
"It seems that admin cost control granularity is an afterthought."
"The dashboard could be improved. It would be helpful to get a view of specific things that we need to monitor for our application."
"The product could do better with its notifications."
"Additional metrics should be included."
"The FinOps needs improvement."
"In terms of the technology, I think they need to put some more advanced troubleshooting into SolarWinds, in terms of AI capabilities. That's the next generation, especially in the cases of APIs which have already adopted AI capabilities into their products."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"The integration with Unix services should be a bit more straightforward."
"I would like to see more integration with other tools that are available on the market."
"The implementation needs improvement. It needs to get modernized with the newer cloud scenario in both public and private deployment models."
"AppOptics would benefit from having a much more centralized view."
Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 137 reviews while SolarWinds AppOptics is ranked 44th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 9 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while SolarWinds AppOptics 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 SolarWinds AppOptics writes "Unique features allow consolidating and combing metrics into a single dashboard, but don't monitor mobile solutions". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and AppDynamics, whereas SolarWinds AppOptics is most compared with Dynatrace, SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, Zabbix, New Relic and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our Datadog vs. SolarWinds AppOptics report.
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