We performed a comparison between Datadog and Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] 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 feature I have found most valuable is when I can reuse existing monitors and alerts for new dashboards."
"The ease with which we can filter, use metrics, and give accounts to customers, then let the customer filter, set up metrics, and alerts. This has been a big win for us."
"We can handle debugging and find out why things are breaking in our applications."
"If we have a large load for users using our basic Datadog, it will immediately fire off an alert notifying us either something's wrong or not."
"The tool's deployment is easy."
"Going from viewing a metric to creating a monitor alerting on a metric is very easy."
"The most valuable aspect is for us to have everything in one place."
"Its integration definitely stands out. It provides seamless monitoring of all our systems, services, apps, and whatever else we secure and monitor. Visualizations have become simpler with dashboards. We are getting visibility into systems, services, and apps stack through a single pane of glass, which is good. We are able to put logs in context."
"Capacity on database and file servers. I found the algorithms to forecast growth and concerns particularly intuitive."
"Real time database monitoring and alerting are valuable."
"FxV is valuable as we can playback the session."
"Having standard monitoring features and a central repository saves us a lot of time and reduces risk of incidents."
"With the APM you can replay the end user session and see issues quickly by viewing the session."
"The ability to track performance of an application or application suite over time is extremely valuable to our business partners and for our application development team with near real time results."
"Infrastructure Monitoring and End User Monitoring are the product’s most valuable features to me."
"The most valuable feature is drill-down monitoring, which shows us from one interface the transaction chain from the front end to back end."
"While the tool is robust with many different capabilities, users would greatly benefit from more examples in the documentation."
"The product needs to have more enterprise approach to configuration."
"I'm not sure what kind of features are in the roadmap right now, but I encourage the development of features for defining your organization, and allowing the visibility of what kind of metrics you can get. Those features would be really useful for us."
"When it comes to storing the logs with Datadog, I'm not sure why it costs so much to store gigabytes or terabytes of information when it's a fraction of the cost to do so myself."
"Datadog could be improved if it could detect other software in a container or server."
"Additional metrics should be included."
"We want to reduce having to go to different screens to obtain all the information."
"We would really like to see more from the Service Catalog."
"I would perhaps like to see more SSMS connections."
"I want to see a new interface that contains HTML5 features. The current version of Foglight (on-premise edition) is so fusty in comparison with leaders of Gartner APM Quadrant - i.e. Appdynamics, NewRelic, Dynatrace."
"I want to see mobile access application in the next release."
"SQL agents often failed but again this may have been addressed in future versions."
"There are some metrics I'd like to track that are difficult to find or implement into a tracking solution without a lot of manual work."
"They need to improve the stability of FxM and FxV."
"The version compatibility needs work."
"It needs a more intuitive way to create and implement custom "Cartridges" to be deployed through out a Federated environment."
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Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 137 reviews while Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] writes "We evaluated other options including BMC, but chose Foglight for it's notifications & the ability to review the history". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] is most compared with Catchpoint.
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