We performed a comparison between Datadog and Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"Its integration is most valuable because you can integrate it with various service providers such as AWS, .Net, etc."
"The solution allows flexibility and heightened observability for presenting data, creating indicators, and setting service-level objectives."
"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."
"The product has offered increased visibility via logging APM, metrics, RUM, etc."
"Even if we don't end up using Datadog, it revealed problems and optimizations to us that weren't obvious before."
"The most valuable feature of Datadog is its logs."
"The feature I have found most valuable is when I can reuse existing monitors and alerts for new dashboards."
"We have found that we're able to get in and out of troubleshooting issues much more rapidly, which in turn, of course, enables us to spend more time on our products."
"It is very easy to monitor multiple cloud environments. It's like a single pane of glass for us. We can use it to monitor our on-prem and both of our cloud environments as opposed to having different tools for each environment. It makes it all come together in one tool."
"The data collection from our VMs, containers, databases, and backend components is valuable."
"The most valuable feature in this solution is the log searching."
"The ability to create custom dashboards is one of the best features and that's typically why most people deploy Splunk. Users can create dashboards for just about anything."
"Splunk has drawn our attention to how the network is running. If there are alarms on things that are not functioning, it gives us early warning on problems that could arise."
"We haven't really experienced any glitches or bugs."
"The alerts are the most valuable feature."
"The initial setup was straightforward. We didn't find it to be too complex."
"Sometimes, it takes a long time to load the dashboard if we have many charts."
"I would love to see support for front-end and mobile applications. Right now, it is mostly all back-end stuff. Being able to do some integration with our front-end products would be awesome."
"Datadog is so feature-rich that it is often hard to onboard new folks and tough to decide where to invest time."
"Their security features could be improved. We looked at their Security Monitoring feature but it was early in its development. Datadog are just getting into the security space so I'm sure this will improve in the future."
"It would be ideal if the product offered a bit more monitoring from our dashboard."
"I often have issues with the UI in my browser."
"It would be great if usage metrics were automatically created and we could create custom metrics, instead we ended up building some of our own stuff to track and alert on our own usage."
"When the logs are too big, and Datadog splits them, the JSON format breaks and it is not so useful for us."
"This solution is difficult to configure and the instructions are complex."
"It would be useful if they provided some help pages. If you don't know too much about the tool, there should be more documentation readily available. It would be useful if they had a help button embedded in the solution so you could ask questions and get answers."
"The solution should have more sensors regarding fiber intelligence for security measures."
"It's a bit difficult to use. It takes some time to get into it and to get it to do what you would like it to do. It is not straightforward to use it."
"A lot of customers had a hard time effectively searching within the data in Splunk. There is a learning curve from searches to indexes and using all the macros that we have created. It is a little difficult for somebody who has not used it quite a bit and does not have a lot of practice with it, but the AI features that we have been hearing about through Splunk will make it a lot easier for us to use human language to search this data. That is big. That is pretty powerful, and that will help a lot with our customers."
"The price has room for improvement."
"The clustering part of indexes can be more refined."
"The product collects a lot of data but it does not assure that it collects all of it."
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Datadog is ranked 2nd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 137 reviews while Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is ranked 14th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 23 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring writes "Helps to ingest a massive amount of raw data and use it effectively". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and AppDynamics, whereas Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is most compared with ServiceNow IT Operations Management, Nagios XI, Cisco Intersight, ITRS Geneos and ControlUp. See our Datadog vs. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring report.
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