Datadog vs. Splunk Observability Cloud

Datadog

239 Reviews and Ratings

Splunk Observability Cloud

87 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 Observability Cloud	Score9 out of 10	N/A	Splunk Observability Cloud aims to enable operational agility and better customer experience through real-time AI-driven streaming analytics allowing accurate alerts in seconds. It is designed to shorten MTTD and MTTR by providing real-time visibility into cloud infrastructure and services.	$180 per year per host

Pricing

Datadog

Splunk Observability Cloud

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

Infrastructure: $15
per month (billed annually) per host
App & Infra: $60
per month (billed annually) per host
End-to-End: $75
per month (billed annually) per host

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

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 Observability Cloud
Considered Both Products	Datadog Verified User Chose Datadog I selected Datadog because of its features and the wide range of integration support. As I already told it supports more that 600+ integrations which helps and organization to keep everything in a single place and also its AI feature which is reducing the time for root cause … Incentivized Helpful?	Cisco Verified User Chose Splunk Observability Cloud SignalFx is similar to Datadog, but I don’t have enough experience with Datadog to compare them. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Splunk Observability Cloud Splunk is better for Multicloud and UI is very good as compared to other Solutions. Also, time saving in case of Developer Productivity as Detectors can be saved as code. Incentivized Helpful? DJ Enriquez Lead DevOps Engineer in Engineering at Glympse (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Splunk Observability Cloud SignalFX is a strong competitor in the monitoring SaaS space and provide the basic necessities for production grade monitoring and alerting. Other solutions may offer easier adoption and other helpful features, but will have trouble competing for cost for organizations that … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Splunk Observability Cloud I selected Splunk Observability Cloud because it focused so much on OTEL standards which will help us in future as OTEL is covering most of the observability standards. And also it has the best Kubernetes observability as I already explained it has several predefined dashboards … Incentivized Helpful?
	Would buy again
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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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	Implementation went as expected
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User Ratings
	Datadog	Splunk Observability Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (22 ratings)	8.6 (24 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	6.4 (1 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (1 ratings)	7.3 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.9 (6 ratings)	- (0 ratings)