We performed a comparison between Amazon OpenSearch Service and Datadog 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."We retrieve historical data with just a click of a button to move it from cold to hot or warm because it's already stored in the backend storage"
"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."
"By moving to Datadog, we did not need to manage our own monitoring infrastructure anymore."
"The ability to easily drill down into log queries quickly and efficiently has helped us to resolve several critical incidents."
"The visibility into our network has allowed for quick diagnosis of failures, identification of underutilized or over-utilized resources, and allowed for cloud cost optimization opportunities."
"I like the amount of tooling and the number of solutions they sold with their monitoring. Datadog was highly intuitive to use."
"The solution allows flexibility and heightened observability for presenting data, creating indicators, and setting service-level objectives."
"Because of our client focus, it is easy for us to sell. This is because it is easy to use and easy to set up."
"The tool's deployment is easy."
"It would be beneficial to have some level of customization available in the managed service, tailored to the specific use cases of the end users."
"One thing we have run into is that it is so easy to add monitoring that we turn on things without really understanding the costs."
"Datadog has a lot of documentation, but a lot of that documentation assumes you know how the service works, which can lead to confusion."
"Lacks some flexibility in the customization."
"Delta traces on the Golang profiler are extremely expensive concerning memory utilization."
"The logging could be improved in the future."
"More pre-configured "Monitor Alerts" would be helpful."
"The ability to find what you are looking for when starting out could be improved."
"In the past two years, there have been a couple of outages."
Amazon OpenSearch Service is ranked 51st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review while Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 137 reviews. Amazon OpenSearch Service is rated 7.0, while Datadog is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon OpenSearch Service writes "A managed solution that provides login authentication but has high cost". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". Amazon OpenSearch Service is most compared with Grafana Loki and Amazon CloudWatch, whereas Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability.
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