Datadog vs New Relic vs Profilo

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Datadog

9K
7.6K
+ 1
857
New Relic

22.1K
8.4K
+ 1
1.9K
Profilo

1
3
+ 1
0
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Pros of Datadog
Pros of New Relic
Pros of Profilo
  • 137
    Monitoring for many apps (databases, web servers, etc)
  • 107
    Easy setup
  • 87
    Powerful ui
  • 83
    Powerful integrations
  • 70
    Great value
  • 54
    Great visualization
  • 46
    Events + metrics = clarity
  • 41
    Custom metrics
  • 41
    Notifications
  • 39
    Flexibility
  • 19
    Free & paid plans
  • 16
    Great customer support
  • 15
    Makes my life easier
  • 10
    Adapts automatically as i scale up
  • 9
    Easy setup and plugins
  • 8
    Super easy and powerful
  • 7
    AWS support
  • 7
    In-context collaboration
  • 6
    Rich in features
  • 5
    Docker support
  • 4
    Cost
  • 4
    Full visibility of applications
  • 4
    Monitor almost everything
  • 4
    Cute logo
  • 4
    Automation tools
  • 4
    Source control and bug tracking
  • 4
    Simple, powerful, great for infra
  • 4
    Easy to Analyze
  • 4
    Best than others
  • 3
    Best in the field
  • 3
    Expensive
  • 3
    Good for Startups
  • 3
    Free setup
  • 2
    APM
  • 415
    Easy setup
  • 344
    Really powerful
  • 244
    Awesome visualization
  • 194
    Ease of use
  • 151
    Great ui
  • 107
    Free tier
  • 80
    Great tool for insights
  • 66
    Heroku Integration
  • 55
    Market leader
  • 49
    Peace of mind
  • 21
    Push notifications
  • 20
    Email notifications
  • 17
    Heroku Add-on
  • 16
    Error Detection and Alerting
  • 13
    Multiple language support
  • 11
    Server Resources Monitoring
  • 11
    SQL Analysis
  • 9
    Transaction Tracing
  • 8
    Azure Add-on
  • 8
    Apdex Scores
  • 7
    Analysis of CPU, Disk, Memory, and Network
  • 6
    Application Availability Monitoring and Alerting
  • 6
    Performance of External Services
  • 6
    Detailed reports
  • 6
    Error Analysis
  • 6
    Application Response Times
  • 5
    JVM Performance Analyzer (Java)
  • 5
    Most Time Consuming Transactions
  • 4
    Easy to use
  • 4
    Browser Transaction Tracing
  • 4
    Top Database Operations
  • 3
    Application Map
  • 3
    Custom Dashboards
  • 3
    Pagoda Box integration
  • 3
    Weekly Performance Email
  • 2
    Easy to setup
  • 2
    App Speed Index
  • 2
    Background Jobs Transaction Analysis
  • 2
    Easy visibility
  • 1
    Real User Monitoring Overview
  • 1
    Time Comparisons
  • 1
    Access to Performance Data API
  • 1
    Free
  • 1
    Super Expensive
  • 1
    Incident Detection and Alerting
  • 1
    Best monitoring on the market
  • 1
    Rails integration
  • 1
    Worst Transactions by User Dissatisfaction
  • 1
    Real User Monitoring Analysis and Breakdown
  • 1
    Team Collaboration Tools
  • 1
    Metric Data Resolution
  • 1
    Metric Data Retention
  • 1
    Best of the best, what more can you ask for
  • 0
    Exceptions
  • 0
    Cost
  • 0
    Price
  • 0
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    Cons of Datadog
    Cons of New Relic
    Cons of Profilo
    • 19
      Expensive
    • 4
      No errors exception tracking
    • 2
      External Network Goes Down You Wont Be Logging
    • 1
      Complicated
    • 20
      Pricing model doesn't suit microservices
    • 10
      UI isn't great
    • 7
      Expensive
    • 7
      Visualizations aren't very helpful
    • 5
      Hard to understand why things in your app are breaking
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      What is Datadog?

      Datadog is the leading service for cloud-scale monitoring. It is used by IT, operations, and development teams who build and operate applications that run on dynamic or hybrid cloud infrastructure. Start monitoring in minutes with Datadog!

      What is New Relic?

      The world’s best software and DevOps teams rely on New Relic to move faster, make better decisions and create best-in-class digital experiences. If you run software, you need to run New Relic. More than 50% of the Fortune 100 do too.

      What is Profilo?

      It is an Android library for collecting performance traces from production builds of an app. It comes with a Python library which can parse traces into a semantic trace object. This trace object can then be traversed and examined to extract meaningful metrics.

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