We performed a comparison between Datadog and Scout APM 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."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."
"It has scaled great. I haven't run into any problems anywhere that I've used it. They have handled everything that we have needed them to."
"Datadog agents act as an integration to different services, providing easy access and management."
"The ability to easily drill down into log queries quickly and efficiently has helped us to resolve several critical incidents."
"It helps us better manage our logs."
"The most useful feature is the APM."
"The most valuable aspect is for us to have everything in one place."
"Its integration is most valuable because you can integrate it with various service providers such as AWS, .Net, etc."
"The product can scale."
"I've only been using Datadog for a few months, and at first, it was frankly overwhelming in terms of both the UI and the available capabilities."
"We'd like Datadog to make the log storage cheaper."
"It would be ideal if the product offered a bit more monitoring from our dashboard."
"They could have better log reporting."
"Datadog has a lot of features kind of cramped into one dashboard. It's quite hard to get around what feature does exactly what. There was a steep learning curve, trying to navigate through menus."
"ECS could be improved by including more tutorials for beginners to reduce the barriers to entry."
"When I started using it years ago, it had stability problems. I remember, specifically, we ran everything in Docker containers. There were some problems getting it into a Docker container with very specific memory limits."
"The setup was a bit complex."
"I can't recall coming across any missing features."
Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 137 reviews while Scout APM is ranked 32nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Scout APM is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Scout APM writes "Great visibility and reliability with fair pricing". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas Scout APM is most compared with Zabbix, Prometheus, New Relic, Grafana and Elastic Observability.
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