We performed a comparison between Datadog and Grafana 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."Datadog's seamless integration with Slack and PagerDuty helped us to receive alerts right to the most common notification methods we use (our mobile devices and Slack)."
"For us to have visibility into our app stack and the hardware we run has been highly beneficial."
"Datadog dashboards are pretty great."
"I like the amount of tooling and the number of solutions they sold with their monitoring. Datadog was highly intuitive to use."
"Datadog has flexibility."
"We have way more observability than what we had before - on the application and the overall system."
"The solution is useful for monitoring logs."
"The solution has improved the organization by providing good insights into app performance and offering good dashboards."
"Almost any kind of visualization is possible with Grafana and all dashboards are configurable."
"The integration between Loki and Tempo is valuable."
"Grafana is able to connect with multiple data sources, unlike Elasticsearch."
"What I found most valuable in Grafana is that it has a lot of integrations and features that I need for data processing and visualization."
"The solution can scale well."
"The best thing about Grafana is the visualization. The colors and the ease of use make it very user-friendly."
"Compatibility with Prometheus databases and the Spring Boot application make it the first choice when moving toward an SRE model."
"Kubernetes could help us to better visualize the trend of our data by recording and displaying our history over a chosen duration, such as the last 30 days."
"The ability to find what you are looking for when starting out could be improved."
"There is always room for improvement when dealing with cloud-based technologies. Mainly, I would say, it's just increasing our offerings to attract various other types of industries and businesses across more fields."
"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."
"I sometimes log in and see items changed, either in the UI or a feature enabled. To see it for the first time without proper communication can sometimes come as a shock."
"Even though it is powerful on its own, the UI-based design lacks elegance, efficiency, and complexity."
"We primarily use the log management functionality, and the only feedback I have there is better fuzzy text searching in logs (the kind that Kibana has)."
"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."
"I would like better navigability across pages."
"The product's configuration for saving files could be improved."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"It would be helpful if Grafana provided more information and training on how to use Prometheus."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
"The solution should include online support."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
"There are some areas of network drives that are not showing as expected based on server usage."
Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Management (APM) with 103 reviews while Grafana is ranked 9th in Application Performance Management (APM) with 28 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Grafana 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 Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, Splunk Enterprise Security and Amazon CloudWatch, whereas Grafana is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, Honeycomb.io, Sentry and Google Stackdriver. See our Datadog vs. Grafana report.
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