We performed a comparison between Datadog and ServiceNow Cloud Observability based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Datadog has so far been a breeze to use and set up."
"Anything I've wanted to do, I found a way to get it done through Datadog."
"Even if we don't end up using Datadog, it revealed problems and optimizations to us that weren't obvious before."
"The visibility that it provides is valuable. It is helping in being proactive around incident management. It is helping us to be able to get more visibility into our customers' applications so that we can assist them at the application layer. We also provide them the infrastructure from an AWS standpoint. We are able to make sure that our customers are aware of certain critical things around the analytical piece of either the network or the application. We're able to call customers before they even know about the issue. From there, we can start putting together some change management processes and help them a bit."
"Going from viewing a metric to creating a monitor alerting on a metric is very easy."
"The monitoring functionality, in general, and tagging infrastructure are great."
"Its integration is most valuable because you can integrate it with various service providers such as AWS, .Net, etc."
"Integrating Datadog with other platforms has made our monitoring processes a bit easier. It's not super simple, but it's manageable."
"The solution Lightstep/ServiceNow has a couple of pretty advanced functionalities to help us investigate a deviation and help the development teams have better observability in the environment using distributed and complex services."
"The ability to create a stream based on different parameters, operation name, service name, URL, tags, and URI part, is one valuable feature."
"The UI is very intuitive."
"We have recently had a number of issues with stability and delays on logging, monitoring, metric evaluation, and alerts."
"We primarily use the log management functionality, and the only feedback I have there is better fuzzy text searching in logs (the kind that Kibana has)."
"I'm still exploring the trial version, and it is fine. One thing that I haven't been able to figure out is how to retrieve a report. This is something that could be improved. I probably need to navigate to a place to access the reports."
"The pricing model could be simplified as it feels a bit outdated, especially when you look at the billing model of compute instances vs the containers instances."
"All solutions have some area to improve, and in Datadog they can improve their overall technology moving forward."
"Graph filters for logs need to be set manually which works well for JSON but not for unstructured logs."
"It is very difficult to make the solutions fit perfectly for large organizations, especially in terms of high cardinality objects and multi-tenancy, where the data needs to be rolled up to a summarized level while maintaining its individual data granularity and identifiers."
"This service could be less costly."
"The design of this solution is not very intuitive and probably could come with more friendly tips for beginners."
"The dashboard and graphics must be improved."
"The support team could be better. Because of the different versions of different tactics of integrating reactive code base, the documentation is not very clear if someone has to be onboard. I would rate the documentation of Lightstep a five out of ten. It could need improvement."
Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 137 reviews while ServiceNow Cloud Observability is ranked 46th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 3 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while ServiceNow Cloud Observability is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ServiceNow Cloud Observability writes "Provides effective observability and offers robust alerting and monitoring capabilities". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas ServiceNow Cloud Observability is most compared with Grafana, New Relic, Dynatrace, Elastic Observability and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our Datadog vs. ServiceNow Cloud Observability report.
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