We performed a comparison between Datadog and Google Stackdriver based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Management (APM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The RUM solution has improved our ability to triage faster and hand more capabilities to our customer support."
"The most valuable features of Datadog are the flexibility and additional features when compared to other solutions, such as AppDynamics and Dynatrace. Some of the features include AI and ML capabilities and cloud and analysis monitoring"
"The product has offered increased visibility via logging APM, metrics, RUM, etc."
"APM and tracing are super useful."
"I have found the logging and tracing features the most valuable."
"The solution has offered increased visibility via logging APM, metrics, RUM, etc."
"It is easy to implement and scale applications with standardized visibility, monitoring and alerting"
"We like the distributed tracing and flame graphs for debugging. This has been invaluable for us during periods of high traffic or red alert conditions."
"I like the monitoring feature."
"Google's technical support is very good."
"Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well."
"It's easy to use."
"The cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently use."
"We find the solution to be stable."
"Datadog isn't as mature as some of the established players like Dynatrace or Splunk. It's a new product, so they are constantly releasing new features, and I don't have much to complain about."
"We need to learn more about the session reply feature inside of DD."
"The pricing is a bit confusing."
"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 would really like to see more from the Service Catalog."
"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."
"It seems that admin cost control granularity is an afterthought."
"It is very difficult to make the solutions fit perfectly for large organizations, especially in terms of high cardinality objects and multi-tenancy, where the data needs to be rolled up to a summarized level while maintaining its individual data granularity and identifiers."
"It could be more stable."
"The logging functionality could be better."
"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
"This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana."
"It could be even more automated."
"While we are satisfied with the overall performance, in certain cases we must add additional metrics and additional tools like Grafana and Dynatrace."
Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Management (APM) with 108 reviews while Google Stackdriver is ranked 18th in Application Performance Management (APM) with 6 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Google Stackdriver is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Easy to set up and good UI but needs better customization capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Stackdriver writes "Good logging and tracing but does need more profiling capabilities". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, Azure Monitor, Splunk Enterprise Security and Logz.io, whereas Google Stackdriver is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Azure Monitor, New Relic, Amazon CloudWatch and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our Datadog vs. Google Stackdriver report.
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