We performed a comparison between Datadog and Splunk Cloud Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The ease of correcting these dashboards and widgets when needed is amazing."
"Datadog has so far been a breeze to use and set up."
"We have hundreds of microservices, and knowing how top-level requests weave throughout all of them is invaluable."
"The ability to easily drill down into log queries quickly and efficiently has helped us to resolve several critical incidents."
"The most useful feature is the APM."
"The seamless integration between Datadog and hundreds of apps makes onboarding new products and teams a breeze."
"Datadog is constantly adding new features."
"I have found some of the most valuable features to be the way things all come together that gives us a point of view that is useful. The panel is very beautiful and customizable."
"The cloud is very fast."
"The Splunk Cloud Platform has reduced our mean time to resolve. It has easily saved 20 to 30 minutes every time someone gets locked out. We get 10 or 15 instances per day where people get locked out. It definitely saves a few hours per day."
"The most valuable feature of Splunk Cloud Platform is the alerting feature."
"This is a complete log reporting tool."
"Dashboards and alerting are the most valuable features. The dashboards let us see how the system looks in terms of anomalies, and the alerts trigger us to go and look at what possible problems are happening."
"The data management and instant search features are the most valuable ones for us, as they allow us to instantly retrieve information needed for reports and security compliance."
"he cloud performance is good."
"Its interconnectivity with the cloud platforms, such as Azure and AWS, was valuable."
"The correlation between the logs and the metrics needs improvement as most cases, we might use another logging tool (that is cheaper in cost) which we then have to link together."
"The on-premise version is very difficult to upgrade."
"Additional metrics should be included."
"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 parallel editing of the dashboards should not cause users to lose the work of another person."
"Deploying the agents is still very manual."
"We would like to see some versioning system for the Synthetic Tests so that we could have a backup of our tests since they are time-consuming to make and very easy to damage in a moment of error."
"They could have better log reporting."
"The only thing I would say is an issue is the cost. It matches other products. The costs can be justified for the value that we gain. The entire threat analysis stack should come in a bundle. If the cost was matchable with other products I think Splunk would pick up in the market."
"The pricing model makes the product costly."
"They can streamline the process of creating custom apps."
"Splunk should offer various options for real-time monitoring."
"There is sometimes no documentation or updated documentation available."
"The Splunk Cloud Platform dashboard could benefit from some improvements."
"There could be better searches, but mainly, it needs to improve the performance with a vast amount of data. That will make it better and easier to use."
"I have not come across anything that I would consider missing as such. If anything, sometimes we have dashboards that would not go into the dark mode. It is a minor issue, but it is the only thing that I wish was there. The dark mode would definitely help."
Datadog is ranked 1st in Cloud Monitoring Software with 136 reviews while Splunk Cloud Platform is ranked 3rd in Data Visualization with 34 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Splunk Cloud Platform is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk Cloud Platform writes "Does not require backend maintenance, is easily integrated and utilized". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and AppDynamics, whereas Splunk Cloud Platform is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Check Point Security Management, AppInsights and Panther. See our Datadog vs. Splunk Cloud Platform report.
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