We performed a comparison between Datadog and SolarWinds Pingdom 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."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."
"Datadog is providing efficiency in the products we develop for the wireless device engineering department."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the APM."
"It has saved us a lot of trouble in implementation."
"The most valuable features of Datadog are the flexibility and additional features when compared to other solutions, such as AppDynamics and Dynatrace. Some of the features include AI and ML capabilities and cloud and analysis monitoring"
"We integrate our application logs. It is great to be able to tie our metrics and our traces together."
"Excellent autocomplete for everything in the UI."
"We've found it most useful for managing Rstudio Workbench, which has its own logs that would not be picked up via Cloudwatch."
"One notable feature of this software is its page speed setup, which is highly commendable. Additionally, the metrics it provides are also impressive."
"The most valuable features are monitoring and reporting."
"There are alerting mechanisms in place to let us know, for example, if a device is not responding to a ping test and is probably not going to work."
"Once you set the threshold on your environment, it feels very real-time"
"It would be great if usage metrics were automatically created and we could create custom metrics, instead we ended up building some of our own stuff to track and alert on our own usage."
"The more tools that they can build that allow you to run AWX playbooks, or other similar fixes, would benefit clients greatly."
"Geo-data is also something very critical that we hope to see in the future."
"I would like testing for data in the future."
"We would really like to see more from the Service Catalog."
"Even though it is powerful on its own, the UI-based design lacks elegance, efficiency, and complexity."
"When the logs are too big, and Datadog splits them, the JSON format breaks and it is not so useful for us."
"The sheer amount of products that are included can be overwhelming."
"I would like to see better integration with other products."
"Pingdom is always improving everything in its product. So, they should work on the GUI."
"Some of the functions could improve by making them easier."
"Technical support could use some improvement."
Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 137 reviews while SolarWinds Pingdom is ranked 47th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 4 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while SolarWinds Pingdom 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 Pingdom writes "High performance, quick setup, but lacking ease of use". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and AppDynamics, whereas SolarWinds Pingdom is most compared with Azure Monitor, Grafana, Solarwinds Web Performance Monitor and New Relic. See our Datadog vs. SolarWinds Pingdom report.
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