We performed a comparison between Datadog and Scout APM 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 solution's SaaS model is easy to manage and works well in single- or multi-cloud environments."
"We have way more observability than what we had before - on the application and the overall system."
"For us to have visibility into our app stack and the hardware we run has been highly beneficial."
"The observability on offer is the most useful aspect of the product."
"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)."
"We find they have a very helpful alert system."
"Profiling has been made easier."
"It has a high-level insight into the infrastructure model of the application and provides important detailed data on the host and metrics, which is the main concern of our customers."
"The product can scale."
"The ability to find what you are looking for when starting out could be improved."
"Datadog is expensive."
"The real issue with this product is cost control."
"Once agents are connected to the Datadog portal, we should be able to upgrade them quickly."
"The installation is easy for me. However, if you are new to this solution it might not be so easy."
"I find the training great. That said, it is set for the LCD (lowest common denominator). Of course, this is very helpful to sell the product, yet, to really utilize the product, you need to get more detailed."
"Even though it is powerful on its own, the UI-based design lacks elegance, efficiency, and complexity."
"I would like testing for data in the future."
"I can't recall coming across any missing features."
Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 137 reviews while Scout APM is ranked 30th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Scout APM is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Scout APM writes "Great visibility and reliability with fair pricing". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and AppDynamics, whereas Scout APM is most compared with Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic and Elastic Observability.
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