We performed a comparison between Datadog and Monte Carlo based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Zabbix, New Relic and others in Cloud Monitoring Software."The application performance monitoring is pretty good."
"The dashboards are great."
"Going from viewing a metric to creating a monitor alerting on a metric is very easy."
"The CCM, Workflows, Logs, APM, and RUM are all useful aspects of the solution."
"APM and tracing are super useful."
"The seamless integration between Datadog and hundreds of apps makes onboarding new products and teams a breeze."
"By moving to Datadog, we did not need to manage our own monitoring infrastructure anymore."
"It has provided visibility with ease of implementation and allowed multiple teams to quickly onboard it."
"It makes organizing work easier based on its relevance to specific projects and teams."
"Datadog lacks a deeper application-level insight. Their competitors had eclipsed them in offering ET functionality that was important to us. That's why we stopped using it and switched to New Relic. Datadog's price is also high."
"Billing should be more transparent."
"The sheer amount of products that are included can be overwhelming."
"Once agents are connected to the Datadog portal, we should be able to upgrade them quickly."
"The product could do better with its notifications."
"We have recently had a number of issues with stability and delays on logging, monitoring, metric evaluation, and alerts."
"At the beginning, when we started throwing logs at it, there was a bit of hiccup. However, this was during their beta period, so hiccups were expected."
"I'd like to see better pricing and more integration in the next release."
"For anomaly detection, the product provides only the last three weeks of data, while some competitors can analyze a more extended data history."
Datadog is ranked 1st in Cloud Monitoring Software with 137 reviews while Monte Carlo is ranked 1st in Data Observability with 1 review. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Monte Carlo is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Monte Carlo writes "Provides centralized data observability features and has an easy-to-use user interface. ". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas Monte Carlo is most compared with Splunk APM, Grafana, Dynatrace, Acceldata and Unravel Data.
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