We performed a comparison between Amazon OpenSearch Service and Datadog 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."We retrieve historical data with just a click of a button to move it from cold to hot or warm because it's already stored in the backend storage"
"The monitoring functionality, in general, and tagging infrastructure are great."
"I really enjoy the RUM monitoring features of Datadog. It allows us to monitor user behavior in a way we couldn't before."
"APM is great and has provided low-effort out-of-the-box observability for various services."
"It is easy to implement and scale applications with standardized visibility, monitoring and alerting"
"Sometimes it's more user friendly for development teams. There are some parts of Datadog that are more understandable for development teams. For example, the APM in Datadog works more manually and works like the tools in New Relic or Grafana, or Elastic. It is easier to understand for software development teams."
"The ease with which we can filter, use metrics, and give accounts to customers, then let the customer filter, set up metrics, and alerts. This has been a big win for us."
"The integration into AWS is key as well as our software is currently bound to AWS."
"Datadog documentation on web pages has improved a lot and is pretty easy to follow and find."
"It would be beneficial to have some level of customization available in the managed service, tailored to the specific use cases of the end users."
"In the past two years, there have been a couple of outages."
"Deploying the agents is still very manual."
"The product could be improved by providing remote control to agents, enabling them to execute automation and collections without requiring another automation tool or integration."
"We need a lot of modules since we collect all data logs from all operating systems."
"There is occasional UI slowness and bugs."
"At times, it can be hard to generate metrics out of logs."
"Lacks some flexibility in the customization."
"We would like to see smaller or shorter tutorials and video sessions."
Amazon OpenSearch Service is ranked 51st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review while Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 137 reviews. Amazon OpenSearch Service is rated 7.0, while Datadog is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon OpenSearch Service writes "A managed solution that provides login authentication but has high cost". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". Amazon OpenSearch Service is most compared with Grafana Loki and Amazon CloudWatch, whereas Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability.
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