We performed a comparison between Datadog and Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) 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."The most valuable aspects of the product include the APM and profiler."
"Datadog documentation on web pages has improved a lot and is pretty easy to follow and find."
"If we have a large load for users using our basic Datadog, it will immediately fire off an alert notifying us either something's wrong or not."
"Because of our client focus, it is easy for us to sell. This is because it is easy to use and easy to set up."
"We rely heavily on the API crawlers that Datadog uses for cloud integrations. These allow us to pick up and leverage the tags teams have already deployed without having also to make them add them at the agent level."
"The application performance monitoring is pretty good."
"The solution allows flexibility and heightened observability for presenting data, creating indicators, and setting service-level objectives."
"The Datadog suite has allowed us to easily integrate log collection into all of our services and quickly detect unexpected changes in system data to declare security incidents."
"The initial setup of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) was easy."
"There are things about it that we would like to be fixed, such as it is taking averages of average. This results in data that we don't expect."
"Once Datadog has gained wide adoption, it can often be overwhelming to both know and understand where to go to find answers to questions."
"We would really like to see more from the Service Catalog."
"Datadog could have a better business analysis module."
"The logging could be improved in the future."
"Datadog has a lot of documentation, but a lot of that documentation assumes you know how the service works, which can lead to confusion."
"We need to learn more about the session reply feature inside of DD."
"I've found that the documentation is lacking in certain regards."
"The initial setup of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) was easy. The solution is deployed on-premises."
Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 137 reviews while Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is ranked 42nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) writes "A stable tool with an easy setup phase that provides ease of use to its users". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is most compared with Prometheus, Sentry, Chronosphere and Splunk APM.
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