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"
"The application performance monitoring is pretty good."
"Datadog is constantly adding new features."
"The most valuable aspect is the APM which can monitor the metrics and latencies."
"By moving to Datadog, we did not need to manage our own monitoring infrastructure anymore."
"I have found error reporting and log centralization the most valuable features. Overall, Datadog provides a full package solution."
"For us to have visibility into our app stack and the hardware we run has been highly beneficial."
"It has turned into an operational dashboard. If you felt something is going wrong, you can immediately open up Datadog. It has been our go to application because we know the answer will be there."
"The solution is sufficiently stable."
"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."
"The real issue with this product is cost control."
"I'm not sure what kind of features are in the roadmap right now, but I encourage the development of features for defining your organization, and allowing the visibility of what kind of metrics you can get. Those features would be really useful for us."
"Sometimes it’s difficult to customize certain queries to find specific things, specifically with the logging solution."
"Datadog has a lot of documentation, but a lot of that documentation assumes you know how the service works, which can lead to confusion."
"The more tools that they can build that allow you to run AWX playbooks, or other similar fixes, would benefit clients greatly."
"When I started using it years ago, it had stability problems. I remember, specifically, we ran everything in Docker containers. There were some problems getting it into a Docker container with very specific memory limits."
"I found the solution to be stable, I did not experience any bugs or glitches. However, some of the managing team did."
"The dashboard could be improved. It would be helpful to get a view of specific things that we need to monitor for our application."
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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