We performed a comparison between AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring and Datadog based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The feature we find most valuable, is that the solution creates a unified platform making it really easy to pinpoint a problem, and then drill down into a transaction to resolve the issue."
"AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring provides smooth connectivity to different applications."
"We used AppDynamics to identify gaps and bottlenecks in the software."
"The most valuable feature is that we can see how our end-users are interacting with our application across regions."
"It provides a lot of data, so it helps businesses identify their user base."
"The best feature of AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is that it lets you find errors in synthetic jobs ahead of the users. The solution shows you all front-end metrics. You can also see JavaScript errors and jQuery errors through AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring. You can also do a correlation between the front end and the backend, or from the user to the navigator, to the backend through the solution."
"The most valuable feature is the end-user monitoring."
"One noteworthy feature is user journey analysis, which enables tracking user interactions and conversion paths on a website."
"We can handle debugging and find out why things are breaking in our applications."
"Datadog's ability to group and visualize the servers and the data makes it relatively easy for the root cause analysis."
"We really like the charts and visualization."
"I don't have to worry about upgrades with the AWS version."
"It has a nice UI."
"Flame graphs are pretty useful for understanding how GraphQL resolves our federated queries when it comes to identifying slow points in our requests. In our microservice environment with 170 services."
"Using the data, our operation teams works with the dashboards to get their statistics, analytics, etc."
"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."
"While I am not expecting it in the next release, I would want more centralized management of the agent in the platform and better support."
"What could be improved in AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is for the synthetic jobs or synthetic agents, in particular, you can't do a lot of tests with just one agent. You have to install a lot of agents if you want to do more tests, so this is an area for improvement in the solution. Another area for improvement in AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is that you're only able to see basic metrics in the absence of server or database visibility. For the SaaS version of AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring, my team just downloaded then installed the extension in an application in Azure to see the application on the controller, so if this can be done in the on-premise version of the solution as well, without needing to install the agent on the machine, then it would make AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring better. Currently, the .NET agent consumes the CPU or memory and clients usually raise this issue with my team, so it would be good if the on-premises version doesn't require agent installation on the machine. Another functionality I'd like to see in the next release of AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is for it to receive updates from the file config without needing to reset IIS because right now when you do a modification in IIS, you have to restart IIS. When you add a service to the agent config, you have to restart IIS. For the product server, it's not possible to reset IIS after you make changes to the config file, so if this could be improved, then it would make AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring a better solution."
"The interface and user experience could be better."
"I would like to have customizable dashboards to use when I am monitoring certain applications."
"AppD is really cool and a unified solution for both APM and APM centric Analytics side. We can show almost all business data within the APM context from the end-user perspetive. But this process is a little bit manual. If they catch and map business journeys based on customer interaction on the browser automatically, it should be really fine."
"The pricing falls within the mid-range category."
"We would like to be able to easily use this solution to monitor our Java script based browsers, which are currently blocked by the security settings."
"If you have a single URL and all the operations are coming in as part of the header, you will not be able to segregate them for different actions."
"Datadog could always lower the price!"
"All solutions have some area to improve, and in Datadog they can improve their overall technology moving forward."
"To be very fair, I haven't had enough experience with Datadog to pick out improvements."
"We need a lot of modules since we collect all data logs from all operating systems."
"I want to applaud the efforts in making the UI extremely usable and approachable. My suggestion would be to take another look at how the menu structure is put together, however. Even after using the platform mostly every day for months, I still find myself trying to find a service or feature in the menus."
"The real issue with this product is cost control."
"The ease of implementation needs improvement."
"Additional metrics should be included."
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AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is ranked 22nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 14 reviews while Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 136 reviews. AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is rated 8.2, while Datadog is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring writes "End-to-end visibility, feature-rich, but the support could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is most compared with Elastic Observability, New Relic and AWS X-Ray, whereas Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and AppDynamics. See our AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring vs. Datadog report.
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