We performed a comparison between AppPulse Suite [EOL] 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."The thing that I like about AppPulse is that it's easy application to install and an easy application to use to provide information for our customers."
"AppPulse Active allows us to very quickly produce synthetic monitoring for our applications."
"With Google Analytics, you choose what performance metrics you want to have reported, but with AppPulse Mobile, you have a global vision of what is really happening inside your app."
"It provides a lot of customer insight, understanding the customer's needs, understanding the customer's issues, and it gives me a more proactive approach to solving a customer problem before it happens."
"We can collect data about the user experience and see how the user is behaving with the app, or check the behavior of the app itself."
"It identifies transactions and flows of the operations that our customers use with our mobile application."
"The speed that you can get AppPulse out there was the brightest spot of this whole process."
"Customer are able to develop more quickly versions in which users can see the application to correct and monetize it."
"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've found it most useful for managing Rstudio Workbench, which has its own logs that would not be picked up via Cloudwatch."
"Datadog documentation on web pages has improved a lot and is pretty easy to follow and find."
"Datadog provides tracing and logging, whereas Dynatrace focuses on tracing, and Splunk is more of a logging tool. Datadog's advantage is that we don't need two tools."
"The service catalog helped improve our organization by giving a good view of the flow for our microservices applications."
"APM is great and has provided low-effort out-of-the-box observability for various services."
"Its logs are most valuable."
"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."
"It could be better if you had any of the reports that the customers asked from us, for example, punctually. Unfortunately, the reporter is not that practical."
"I think they can improve the feature that identifies the operating systems, the brand of the devices, the response time, geolocalization."
"It needs compatibility for Windows Mobile, because I think AppPulse doesn't have Windows Mobile."
"Currently, the information for management teams and technical teams are in the same view, but it would be useful if we could separate these views."
"The one that sticks out in my mind is some flexibility to do recurring downtime."
"The regulations should be better customized for the kind of data that we cannot send to the SALs environment."
"The ability to get CI information from AppPulse into OMi."
"I would love if AppPulse delivered more details about my users, for example, age and sex. It could split up the users into categories based on how frequently they use my product."
"It can have a more modernized pricing mechanism. We're actually working with them to figure out how to become more modular and have a better and more modernized pricing mechanism. The issue with Datadog is that you have to buy the whole suite of different products, and you kind of get stuck in the old utilization of 40% of their suite. Most organizations today break down between application development, networking, and security. Therefore, there should be a way to break down different modules into just app dev, infosec, networking, etc. Customers have various needs across their business lines, and sometimes, they're just not willing to have tools that they're not using 100%. AppDynamics is probably a little bit better in terms of being modular."
"They should continue expanding and integrating with more third-party apps."
"As a new customer, the Datadog user interface is a bit daunting."
"Datadog is expensive."
"The product is quite complex, and there are so many features that I either didn't know about or wasn't sure how to use."
"The setup was a bit complex."
"I'm still exploring the trial version, and it is fine. One thing that I haven't been able to figure out is how to retrieve a report. This is something that could be improved. I probably need to navigate to a place to access the reports."
"I would like the tooling to have better integration in Slack, specifically sending out reminders to the relevant people to take breaks, do a retrospective, and specify with emojis which messages to log."
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AppPulse Suite [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability while Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 137 reviews. AppPulse Suite [EOL] is rated 8.4, while Datadog is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of AppPulse Suite [EOL] writes "The speed in which we were able to deploy it was the most valuable area for me". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". AppPulse Suite [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability.
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