We compared Datadog and Splunk APM based on our users' reviews in five parameters and you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Users appreciate Datadog's user-friendly interface, ease of use, and seamless setup. Its extensive integrations, troubleshooting capabilities, and instrumentation features are highly valuable. Additionally, Datadog offers flexibility and observability, along with a wide array of additional features. On the other hand, while Splunk APM is also considered user-friendly and quick to deploy, it lacks customization options and has challenging log navigation, resulting in slower performance. Despite being somewhat expensive, Datadog's pricing is justified due to its value and flexibility, whereas Splunk APM's pricing is reasonable. The customer service and support for both products generate mixed reviews, but Datadog generally receives positive feedback for its helpful and responsive support.
"The most valuable feature is the dashboards that are provided out of the box, as well as ones we were able to configure."
"Dashboards and their versatility are among the most valuable features."
"Datadog's seamless integration with Slack and PagerDuty helped us to receive alerts right to the most common notification methods we use (our mobile devices and Slack)."
"Datadog is constantly adding new features."
"Datadog has made it much easier to have a central place for people to look for logs and made it much easier to notify them of any elevated error rates or failures."
"It provides more cloud data. They tend to just get the way a service would be designed on the cloud."
"The web app has a real-time support chat window in which a support engineer is chatting with you within a minute."
"We like the distributed tracing and flame graphs for debugging. This has been invaluable for us during periods of high traffic or red alert conditions."
"I like the fact that Splunk APM makes it easy to connect to the application database and run queries against the data."
"It is a good tool. It allows you to set alerts for application and infrastructure monitoring, and it allows you to create dashboards."
"The most valuable feature is dashboard creation."
"The most valuable features are troubleshooting and optimizing application performance."
"The solution's service map feature allows us to have a holistic overview and to see quickly where the issues are."
"Splunk's dashboards are great."
"Detectors are a powerful feature."
"Splunk APM has helped us to standardize logging and monitoring procedures."
"I often have issues with the UI in my browser."
"Datadog could have a better business analysis module."
"It can be overwhelming for new people as it has a lot of features."
"We need more integration with security tools like Drata."
"Datadog lacks a deeper application-level insight. Their competitors had eclipsed them in offering ET functionality that was important to us. That's why we stopped using it and switched to New Relic. Datadog's price is also high."
"The current way accounts are billed could be vastly improved - especially when involving multiple organizations across multiple accounts in combination with reserved commitments."
"Since the Datadog platform has so many separate features, solving so many use cases, there are often inconsistencies in feature availability and interoperability between products."
"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."
"Primarily, the logs in Slunk APM can be challenging to navigate and comprehend, making it difficult to understand the details within each log. Compared to other tools like LogDNA, which are more intuitive in this aspect, the logs in Slunk APM can require more effort to understand."
"Splunk's functionality could be improved by adding database connectors for other platforms like AWS and Azure."
"The monitoring of workloads when using SignalFx could be improved."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"The cardinality is pretty low."
"It is essential for the monitoring tool to deliver quick response times when generating analytical reports, instead of prolonged delays."
"The UI enhancements could be a way to improve the solution in the future."
"Splunk APM should include a better correlation between resources and infrastructure monitoring."
Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 137 reviews while Splunk APM is ranked 13th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 13 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Splunk APM 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 APM writes "Provides great visibility, analysis, and data telemetry". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas Splunk APM is most compared with Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), Sentry, Elastic Observability, Monte Carlo and Chronosphere. See our Datadog vs. Splunk APM report.
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