Datadog vs. Splunk AppDynamics

Datadog

239 Reviews and Ratings

Splunk AppDynamics

246 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Datadog	Score8.4 out of 10	N/A	Datadog 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 AppDynamics	Score8.2 out of 10	N/A	AppDynamics is an APM and Mobile APM program, with application mapping and predictive capabilities. These capacities enable automated remediation and code-level diagnostics in real time. It can be deployed on-premise or as a SaaS.	N/A

Pricing

Datadog

Splunk AppDynamics

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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Pricing Offerings
Datadog	Splunk AppDynamics
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	Yes

Optional

No setup fee

Discount available for annual pricing. Multi-Year/Volume discounts available (500+ hosts/mo).

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Datadog	Splunk AppDynamics
Considered Both Products	Datadog Verified User 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 Helpful? Anuj Rai Performance Engineer in Information Technology at DISYS (Information Technology & Services, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Datadog The first reason for selecting Datadog was of course it's pricing which is quite better in terms of competitor like AppDynamics and splunk. Second thing is versatile services which they are offering on one platform which means entire end to end services can be monitor at one … Incentivized Helpful? Aman Makwana DevOps Engineer in Engineering at Freecharge (Information Technology & Services, 201-500 employees) Chose Datadog It's a one-stop solution for all our needs whereas in other open-source tools, we have an operational overhead to keep and manage the uptime of these tools as well and also manage their versioning, upgrade, and patching cycle. Also if there are any bugs then we have to raise an … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose 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 Helpful? Verified User Chose Datadog The pricing, the customer service and it most importantly it does the job we expect. Incentivized Helpful?	Cisco Anton Smyslov Product Owner in Information Technology at Sunday (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Splunk AppDynamics Unfortunately, I wasn't in the company when the decision was made, hence can tell just because. What I can tell from my experience, it was not a bad choice and alternatives like New Relic or Datadog provide more or less similar functionality. In most cases the main reasons are … Incentivized Helpful? Mohammad Anas Application Development Analyst in Information Technology at Accenture (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Splunk AppDynamics AppDynamics is easy to use when compared with Datadog and provide rich user interface. We prefer AppDynamics as it gives more data insight. We can easily install the AppDynamics agent and integrate with application. Also AppDynamics subscription cost was in budget with our … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Splunk AppDynamics AppDynamics is almost the same as New Relic and I would say they both are at the same level. Datadog is infrastructure monitoring and AppDynamics can catch up on this impact. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Splunk AppDynamics Datadog is a great product in comparison to AppDynamics and matches up to it. However, AppDynamics is used by many in the industry and is the best for our applications. There was lots of experience in the WorkForce with AppDynamics, so it was a better choice than Datadog. Datado… Incentivized Helpful? Gene Baker Vice President, Chief Architect, Development Manager and Software Engineer in Information Technology at WySTAR Global Retirement Solutions, a Wells Fargo Company (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Splunk AppDynamics Datadog was easy to install on some devices but harder on others based on the OS. We were never able to get Datadog to work in our environment for all devices and apps. AppDynamics works across 100%. Incentivized Helpful? Tyler Twitchell Senior System Engineer in Information Technology at NetDocuments (Computer Software, 201-500 employees) Chose Splunk AppDynamics We use Splunk, a lot, and I feel that the two applications complement each other well. AppDynamics is not as good at finding problems or errors in logs, and Splunk is very easy to set up visualizations. However, where AppDynamics excels is in the level of detail about … Incentivized Helpful? Alazar Adefris Senior System Admin in Information Technology at Awash (Banking, 10,001+ employees) Chose Splunk AppDynamics Dynatrace is the first and AppDynamics second Incentivized Helpful? Michelle Ritson Sales And Marketing Specialist in Marketing at Sight & Surf (Computer Hardware, 51-200 employees) Chose Splunk AppDynamics It is distinguished from these programs because the platform provides visualizations of application processes, showing the interplay between various parts and services. Understanding the architecture of complicated apps and finding their weak spots is greatly aided by this. Incentivized Helpful? Brad Welsh Program Manager in Information Technology at SOI - IOT (Information Technology & Services, 201-500 employees) Chose Splunk AppDynamics Overall value...AppDynamics won out in cost, support, and data returned for applications. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Splunk AppDynamics Ease of use, the fast pace of the product growth. Analytics and BiQ is a huge bonus for adding value to Business who ultimately are the owners as they pay for AppDynamics. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Splunk AppDynamics AppDynamics is more a graphical representation of data, where as other tools like Splunk shows data in a table format using Query structure. AppDynamics helps is in analyzing system performance, but other tools just help to log the data and send alerts upon manual setting. … Incentivized Helpful? Silviya (Vasileva) Marcu Busness development manager in Sales at Perform IT Ltd (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Splunk AppDynamics AppDynamics falls under Cisco's Full Stack Observability and is now deeplyintegrated with Thousand Eyes, Secure App and Intersight covering addional monitoring layes that no other solution out there does well. Incentivized Helpful? William Guertin CloudOps Manager Infrastructure in Information Technology at Accruent (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Splunk AppDynamics We actually have different development teams using both of these tools currently. They are both very good at providing application monitoring. They in some ways have the same flaws. App Dynamics seems very focused on the end-to-end evaluation of the application and New Relic … Incentivized Helpful? Rekha Yadav Development Team Lead in Information Technology at Accenture (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees) Chose Splunk AppDynamics AppDynamics is still a good solution as this is one the earliest tool available in the APM space and people are used to this Application usage. However other products are also doing great as Dynatrace is the biggest competitor since it adds on all the AppDynamics features plus … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Splunk AppDynamics Data dog, it's not an APM to me, yet. It's more like a Nagios or PRTG. And New Relic, it was good. Now it's poor in setup a .Net application. AppDynamics is simply perfect in setup, usage, tips, alarms. It's really what we needed for our environment. All in a single … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Splunk AppDynamics Ease of usage. Views key metrics of any application you can think of. Analyzes transactions easily. Helps resolve performance issues. Server and application performance management is now very easy with this tool. End user monitoring. Deep code level diagnostics in real time. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Splunk AppDynamics AppDynamics automatically discovers and monitors every dependency and business transaction out of the box (no manual instrumentation required). AppDynamics proprietary Dynamic Baselining takes the seasonality of your application into account and proactively alerts you on every … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Splunk AppDynamics Splunk AppDynamics is ideal for enterprises seeking business-centric observability with fast, out-of-the-box performance monitoring. It connects application health to business outcomes through Business iQ, enabling real-time insights for stakeholders. With broad technology … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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Features

Datadog

Splunk AppDynamics

Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Datadog and Splunk AppDynamics
Feature	Datadog - Ratings	Splunk AppDynamics 8.5 74 Ratings
Application monitoring	00 Ratings	9.474 Ratings
Database monitoring	00 Ratings	8.071 Ratings
Threshold alerts	00 Ratings	8.872 Ratings
Predictive capabilities	00 Ratings	7.771 Ratings
Application performance management console	00 Ratings	8.971 Ratings
Collaboration tools	00 Ratings	7.659 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring	00 Ratings	8.544 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting	00 Ratings	8.842 Ratings

User Ratings
	Datadog	Splunk AppDynamics
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (22 ratings)	8.6 (74 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (2 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (1 ratings)	8.5 (8 ratings)
Support Rating	8.9 (6 ratings)	8.1 (6 ratings)