We performed a comparison between Datadog and Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) 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 interface and the integrations make it so easy to connect to the cloud or to the on-premise environment."
"I like that you can build out a dashboard pretty quickly. There are some things that come out of the box that you don't really need to do, which is great because they're default settings."
"Thanks to the logs, we manage to make better reports through Jira and also to trace the request with more facility than we would be able to do otherwise."
"The ingestion points are unlimited and support customization. We haven't had anything yet that we haven't been able to integrate with it."
"The seamless integration between Datadog and hundreds of apps makes onboarding new products and teams a breeze."
"It provides more cloud data. They tend to just get the way a service would be designed on the cloud."
"The most valuable features are logging, the extensive set of integrations, and easy jumpstart."
"I have found the logging and tracing features the most valuable."
"The initial setup of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) was easy."
"The pricing is a bit confusing."
"Managing dashboards as IaC is a bit hard to work out at times."
"We have recently had a number of issues with stability and delays on logging, monitoring, metric evaluation, and alerts."
"The logging could be improved in the future."
"They could have better log reporting."
"Datadog isn't as mature as some of the established players like Dynatrace or Splunk. It's a new product, so they are constantly releasing new features, and I don't have much to complain about."
"We need a lot of modules since we collect all data logs from all operating systems."
"Federated views for Datadog dashboards are critical as large companies utilize multiple instances of the product and cannot link the metrics or correlate the metrics together. This stunts the usage of Datadog."
"The initial setup of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) was easy. The solution is deployed on-premises."
Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 137 reviews while Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is ranked 41st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) writes "A stable tool with an easy setup phase that provides ease of use to its users". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and AppDynamics, whereas Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) is most compared with Prometheus, Splunk APM, Chronosphere and Sentry.
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