We performed a comparison between Datadog and PagerDuty Operations Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two AIOps solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We've found it most useful for managing Rstudio Workbench, which has its own logs that would not be picked up via Cloudwatch."
"Datadog has clear dashboards and good documentation."
"Even if we don't end up using Datadog, it revealed problems and optimizations to us that weren't obvious before."
"The web app has a real-time support chat window in which a support engineer is chatting with you within a minute."
"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."
"The solution has helped out organization gain improved visibility."
"It brings in observability, monitoring, and alerting capabilities - all of which we need to operate at scale."
"The most useful feature is the APM."
"Alert deduplication and noise reduction for alerts are the major features that I found useful."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the flexibility of the schedule. The mobile app is quite also good for what we do: for receiving alerts, acknowledging, assigning, adding new responders. It has rich features for our needs."
"PagerDuty's best features are the dedicated application that allows me to reach my engineers immediately and the ability to directly assign specific tasks to individuals and have them report back."
"The most valuable feature of PagerDuty is its integration with other tools, such as Amazon AWS, to receive notifications or create automatic instances."
"PagerDuty let us set up rosters based on our shifts. We could assign a hierarchy for how the calls should be escalated and the number of times the call will be transferred between people before it is answered. It makes it easy to access an agent via mobile phone."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Notification is the most valuable feature."
"The initial setup is a simple process."
"We need more integration with security tools like Drata."
"The installation is easy for me. However, if you are new to this solution it might not be so easy."
"Datadog could always lower the price!"
"Once agents are connected to the Datadog portal, we should be able to upgrade them quickly."
"It can be overwhelming for new people as it has a lot of features."
"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."
"The parallel editing of the dashboards should not cause users to lose the work of another person."
"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."
"The product can be improved by including out-of-the-box integration with other standard tools used in our fields such as Confluence, and Jira."
"PagerDuty can improve the integration with Terraform."
"I would like to see more content in the notification messages; although, that might be a configuration on our end."
"They could include incident merging and alert grouping features in the product."
"The biggest area for improvement with PagerDuty is noise suppression. There have been a handful of incidents through our use of PagerDuty over the years where one incident may lead to 30 to 50 pages because you're monitoring all these different things, and each thing is an individual page. There should be the ability to set up paging tiers and group correlations between some of the different pages. That is something that would be really valuable. We should be able to say this one page may have a group or a tree of effective other pages that may tier off of it. So, if you see those pages independently, go ahead and alarm, but if you see this plus that, don't do that."
"PagerDuty should be integrated with other tools, so it can import the IT roster automatically. Our other rules continue to work once they're configured, but the roster must be added manually."
"There is room for improvement with the time schedule. The way the schedule currently works is you assign all the team members in one schedule and it automatically spreads them around throughout the schedule... It would be better to be able to edit the schedule and place my team members where I want, or at least to have that option in addition to the automatic process."
"This solution works best in conjunction with a proper logging system, which can be an additional cost to organizations."
Datadog is ranked 1st in AIOps with 137 reviews while PagerDuty Operations Cloud is ranked 7th in AIOps with 35 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while PagerDuty Operations Cloud is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of PagerDuty Operations Cloud writes "Effectively generates alerts for incidents, making it suitable for 24/7 monitoring of infrastructure". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and AppDynamics, whereas PagerDuty Operations Cloud is most compared with Opsgenie, ServiceNow, JIRA Service Management, Splunk On-Call and Everbridge IT Alerting. See our Datadog vs. PagerDuty Operations Cloud report.
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