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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Datadog

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ADatadog is a monitoring service for IT, Dev and Ops teams who write and run applications at scale, and want to turn the massive amounts of data produced by their apps, tools and services into actionable insight.

    $18

    per month per host

    Splunk Cloud Platform

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/ASplunk Cloud Platform is a data platform service thats help users search, analyze, visualize and act on data. The service can go live in as little as two days, and with an IT backend managed by Splunk experts.N/A
    Pricing
    DatadogSplunk Cloud Platform
    Editions & Modules
    Log Management
    $1.27
    per month (billed annually) per host
    Infrastructure
    $15.00
    per month (billed annually) per host
    Standard
    $18
    per month per host
    Enterprise
    $27
    per month per host
    DevSecOps Pro
    $27
    per month per host
    APM
    $31.00
    per month (billed annually) per host
    DevSecOps Enterprise
    $41
    per month per host
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DatadogSplunk Cloud Platform
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing. Multi-Year/Volume discounts available (500+ hosts/mo).—
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    Community Pulse
    DatadogSplunk Cloud Platform
    Considered Both Products
    Datadog
    Chose Datadog
    Better performance and visibility than what I was able to obtain out of AppDynamics

    Their OnCall offering is very fresh still, but is already almost at parity with Splunk On Call (VictorOps)
    Incentivized
    Chose Datadog
    Datadog has been harder to setup out-of-the-box compared to its alternatives, although it's graphs and dashboards have been more useful. Other tools handle individual tasks better. For example, Splunk has been the best logging tool I've used, and New Relic is great for CPU and …
    Incentivized
    Cisco
    Chose Splunk Cloud Platform
    Vs elastic:
    - SPL's statistical functions superior to KQL for complex correlations
    - Better enterprise support, less operational overhead
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk Cloud Platform
    We selected Splunk Cloud due to the simplicity to use and get data in. We found that Splunk Cloud gives a unified simple searching and dashboarding interface which can be used to search and visualise data from multiple systems with ease.
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk Cloud Platform
    Other solutions weren't able to consume the volume of logs that we were producing on a daily basis. Searching was difficult because of proprietary or simply confusing search mechanisms. Splunk simplified the searching by using regular expressions. Although the cost of Splunk …
    Incentivized
    Chose Splunk Cloud Platform
    I feel that the alternatives are great products and they are also things we use in our own monitoring in addition to Splunk. However, when it comes to finding things in the data as opposed to just looks for trends the competition just doesn't even come close. Splunk has become …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
    21 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    19 Answers
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    7 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    22 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    88%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    9 Answers
    Features
    DatadogSplunk Cloud Platform
    Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
    Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of Datadog and Splunk Cloud Platform
    Feature
    Datadog
    -
    Ratings
    Splunk Cloud Platform
    9.0
    15 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Centralized event and log data collection00 Ratings9.015 Ratings
    Correlation00 Ratings9.715 Ratings
    Event and log normalization/management00 Ratings9.715 Ratings
    Deployment flexibility00 Ratings9.015 Ratings
    Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools00 Ratings9.313 Ratings
    Custom dashboards and workspaces00 Ratings9.715 Ratings
    Host and network-based intrusion detection00 Ratings8.613 Ratings
    Data integration/API management00 Ratings8.65 Ratings
    Behavioral analytics and baselining00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds00 Ratings8.46 Ratings
    Response orchestration and automation00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Reporting and compliance management00 Ratings8.76 Ratings
    Incident indexing/searching00 Ratings9.36 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    DatadogSplunk Cloud Platform
    Small Businesses
    Amazon CloudWatch
    Score8.2 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Sumo Logic
    Score9.4 out of 10
    IBM Security QRadar SIEM
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    NetBrain Technologies
    Score9.2 out of 10
    SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    DatadogSplunk Cloud Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (22 ratings)
    9.9
    (15 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.9
    (6 ratings)
    7.2
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DatadogSplunk Cloud Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Datadog
    Datadog works really well with complex microservices architecture like any E-commerce platform which will be having multiple services but they all are interdependent to others so in this scenario Datadog will be best to monitor these as it will show the transactions also between those microservices. If you are using multiple services in your architecture whether it will be cloud services or on prem services Datadog will be the best choice to monitor all those service with in Datadog so that you can see everything in a single place. But if you are having small architecture and few services in that then in that scenario you can use Datadog but it will be little costly as compared to other but obviously the features are very well.
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    Cisco
    Splunk is excellent when all your data is in one location. Its ability to correlate all that data is intuitive (once the hurdle of learning the query language is overcome). It is also easy to standardize the presentation of information to the company. When data is siloed/standalone, other systems can be cheaper and faster to implement.
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    Pros
    Datadog
    • Create Dashboards as per application, environments, and Custom metrics in one panel.
    • Log aggregation, one-stop Application monitoring tools for the whole infrastructure.
    • Playbooks, SLA definition, success and error quotas, request visualizations.
    • DB monitoring, Serverless stack monitoring.
    • Alerting of Production incidents so we can quickly resolve the issues on time.
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    Cisco
    • This SIEM consolidates multiple data points and offers several features and benefits, creating custom dashboards and managing alert workflows.
    • Splunk Cloud provides a simple way to have a central monitoring and security solution. Though it does not have a huge learning curve, you should spend some time learning the basics.
    • Splunk Cloud enables me to create and schedule statistical reports on network use for Management.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Datadog
    • Alert windows cause lag in notifications (e.g. if the alert window is X errors in 1 hour, we won't get alerted until the end of the 1 hour range)
    • I would appreciate more supportive examples for how to filter and view metrics in the explorer
    • I would like a more clear interface for metrics that are missing in a time frame, rather than only showing tags/etc. for metrics that were collected within the currently viewed time frame
    Incentivized
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    Cisco
    • The SPL programming language that the queries are built in is not very intuitive.
    • There should be a better repository of pre-built queries for what I would think of as common Active Directory usage monitoring.
    • I would like to see more free training/familiarization information made available.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Datadog
    No answers on this topic
    Cisco
    Ease of use and have all the features we need
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Datadog
    There is some room for improvement, but the Datadog team sends out updates frequently, and the UI is user-friendly for engineers, with no significant loading issues or region-specific problems. That was one of the key reasons we preferred Datadog; our company has employees worldwide, and it wasn't difficult to transition to the tool.
    Incentivized
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    Cisco
    What it does well:
    - Powerful SPL query language for advanced users
    - Excellent visualization dashboards
    - Comprehensive documentation and community support
    Where it needs work:
    - Steep learning curve for SPL syntax
    - Non-Intuitive UI for beginners
    - Complex administration and data model configuration
    - Search performance degrades with poor query optimization
    Bottom line: Enterprise-grade tool requiring dedicated training investment. Best for teams with experienced analysts.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Datadog
    The support team usually gets it right. We did have a rather complicate issue setting up monitoring on a domain controller. However, they are usually responsive and helpful over chat. The downside would be I don’t think they have any phone support. If that is important to you this might not be a good fit.
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    Cisco
    Splunk Cloud support is sorely lacking unfortunately. The portal where you submit tickets is not very good and is lacking polish. Tickets are left for days without any updates and when chased it is only sometimes you get a reply back. I get the feeling the support team are very understaffed and have far too much going on. From what I know, Splunk is aware of this and seem to be trying to remedy it.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Datadog
    We are still trying other products, but people still like Datadog. After setting up a dashboard, it's great for monitoring instances on Datadog. Also, the DevOps team had a good time setting up Datadog. It means Datadog was way easier to set up compared to those others.
    Incentivized
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    Cisco
    Search Processing Language really is a game changer for writing easy-to-understand and maintainable queries on your data base logs. Once understood, setting up and validating a query can be done in no time- which leaves us the option to focus on more monitoring and improved services. We have no other tools that utilizes data this efficiently
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    Return on Investment
    Datadog
    • Saved us (time & money) from developing our own monitoring utilities that would pale in comparison
    • Alerts allow us to remedy issues before our customers even know about them
    • Tracking resource usage over time allows us to better plan for future needs, before it becomes a pain-point.
    Incentivized
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    Cisco
    • End-end visibility across your departmental silos
    • Strengthen the overall global monitoring posture
    • Move from Reactive to Proactive Monitoring
    • Highly secure environment at your finger-tips
    • Takes you away from managing infrastructure/administration, allows saving time & money. Reduce the overall TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Datadog Screenshots

    Screenshot of the out-of-the-box and customizable monitoring dashboards.Screenshot of Datadog's collaboration features, where users can discuss issues in-context with production data, annotate changes and notify their teams, see who responded to that alert before, and discover what was done to fix it.Screenshot of where Datadog unifies traces, metrics, and logs—the three pillars of observability.Screenshot of some of Datadog's 400+ built-in integrations.Screenshot of Datadog's Service Map, which decomposes an application into all its component services and draws the observed dependencies between these services in real timeScreenshot of centralized log data, pulled from any source.