We performed a comparison between Datadog and Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The RUM solution has improved our ability to triage faster and hand more capabilities to our customer support."
"I like that you can build out a dashboard pretty quickly. There are some things that come out of the box that you don't really need to do, which is great because they're default settings."
"We really like the charts and visualization."
"Datadog has made it much easier to have a central place for people to look for logs and made it much easier to notify them of any elevated error rates or failures."
"The application performance monitoring is pretty good."
"The ease of correcting these dashboards and widgets when needed is amazing."
"The observability pipelines are the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"I like the amount of tooling and the number of solutions they sold with their monitoring. Datadog was highly intuitive to use."
"It is very easy to monitor multiple cloud environments. It's like a single pane of glass for us. We can use it to monitor our on-prem and both of our cloud environments as opposed to having different tools for each environment. It makes it all come together in one tool."
"The tool is efficient in collecting, monitoring and evaluating logs."
"The most valuable feature is log reporting."
"The initial setup was straightforward. We didn't find it to be too complex."
"It can monitor, get the data, and then report on the data."
"I find the monitoring console very helpful. With one click, I can see how we are performing, and at the same time, I can see what data is flowing."
"The solution's basic visibility is one of its most valuable features. So, it is a solution that is easy to use...The solution's initial setup process was straightforward."
"The product retains a lot of log data for subsequent analysis."
"Datadog could always lower the price!"
"While I like the ease of use, when compared with Tenable Nessus they could still improve their usability."
"Even though it is powerful on its own, the UI-based design lacks elegance, efficiency, and complexity."
"Datadog could make their use cases more visible either through their docs or tutorial videos."
"The solution should provide alerts for cloud outages."
"More granular control over dashboard sharing. Timeboard sharing."
"The on-premise version is very difficult to upgrade."
"Stability of the product has been a concern for us outside of the primary monitoring agents."
"The implementation can be more user-friendly."
"The cost needs to be re-examined. It's extremely expensive to run. It's also expensive to expand. That's the number one complaint all of my customers have when it comes to Splunk. It's way too expensive compared to other solutions."
"I would like to see an improvement and some innovation in the customer interface."
"The deployment can be quite complex."
"It does not have a user-friendly interface and it is difficult to use."
"It would be useful if they provided some help pages. If you don't know too much about the tool, there should be more documentation readily available. It would be useful if they had a help button embedded in the solution so you could ask questions and get answers."
"The solution should have more sensors regarding fiber intelligence for security measures."
"There is a lot of room for improvement with the automation."
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Datadog is ranked 2nd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 137 reviews while Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is ranked 14th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 23 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring writes "Helps to ingest a massive amount of raw data and use it effectively". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and AppDynamics, whereas Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is most compared with ServiceNow IT Operations Management, Nagios XI, Cisco Intersight, ITRS Geneos and ControlUp. See our Datadog vs. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring report.
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