We performed a comparison between Datadog and Splunk Cloud Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The management of SLOs and their related burn-rate monitors have allowed us to onboard teams to on-call fast."
"The interface and the integrations make it so easy to connect to the cloud or to the on-premise environment."
"We've been able to glean from the monitors what servers are down, and can alert the team in Slack."
"We have a better grasp of what is occurring during the deployment cycle. If something fails, we have an idea what has failed, where it has failed, and how it failed to better mitigate the situation."
"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."
"The application performance monitoring is pretty good."
"The integration into AWS is key as well as our software is currently bound to AWS."
"The observability on offer is the most useful aspect of the product."
"Not having to manage Splunk Cloud's infrastructure is valuable."
"Splunk helped reduce our mean time to resolve by around 60%."
"For my current requirements, the tool theme seems to be meeting my requirements, from a cost and requirements perspective."
"he cloud performance is good."
"Splunk has sped up our response and reduced the time we spend manually monitoring any logs for ticketing tools or servers. It saves us around two hours daily."
"The most valuable feature of Splunk Cloud Platform is its flexibility and readiness because it's already prebuilt, and everything is click-to-go."
"Its interconnectivity with the cloud platforms, such as Azure and AWS, was valuable."
"The solution is user friendly and has extensive uses."
"The ease of implementation needs improvement."
"The menu on the left is pretty dense (and I know it has to be). I never knew about the cmd+k functionality until recently. It would be helpful to offer more tips/cheat sheets to see handy shortcuts like that."
"Its pricing model can be improved. Its settings should be improved for a better understanding of billing. They should also provide some alerts when there is an increase in the usage. For example, if there is 20% more increase from one week to another, the customer should get an alert."
"Deploying the agents is still very manual."
"Some of the interface is still confusing to use."
"Additional metrics should be included."
"Datadog could make their use cases more visible either through their docs or tutorial videos."
"We would like to see smaller or shorter tutorials and video sessions."
"From an enterprise standpoint, we are more limited in terms of what data we can export and how we can present it."
"The administration could use improvement. We have to rely on support more often than we're used to."
"There is sometimes no documentation or updated documentation available."
"Splunk currently manages the components, which restricts our ability to access them directly."
"They can streamline the process of creating custom apps."
"Every time they launch new versions, we experience a few bugs. The most recent version had a couple of bugs in the databases. We contacted the vendor and got assistance solving these bugs, so the environment is more stable."
"Splunk should increase the frequency of new feature releases, particularly those related to real-time operational flow monitoring and analytics reporting."
"Splunk Cloud Platform should improve its integrations and consider multiple integrations or direct integration with other platforms like Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or AWS."
Datadog is ranked 1st in Cloud Monitoring Software with 137 reviews while Splunk Cloud Platform is ranked 3rd in Data Visualization with 34 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Splunk Cloud Platform 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 Splunk Cloud Platform writes "Does not require backend maintenance, is easily integrated and utilized". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas Splunk Cloud Platform is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, AppInsights, Check Point Security Management and Fortinet FortiAnalyzer. See our Datadog vs. Splunk Cloud Platform report.
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