Complete business visibility across any environment and any stack
Unlock business visibility for large enterprises
- Splunk’s unmatched coverage across networks, infrastructure and apps ensures business service health.
- Predictive analytics in Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) helps you spot and resolve issues proactively.
Datadog’s limited business analytics
- Datadog tracks rate, error and duration metrics, but doesn't show how those impact business performance.
- Datadog can’t deeply instrument 3rd-party enterprise apps like SAP, so you're only getting partial coverage.
Better control of your data and cost
Splunk’s data ingestions with no hidden cost
- Splunk is OpenTelemetry native, ensuring complete data control and avoiding vendor lock-in.
- Splunk offers flexible and predictable billing, so you only pay for what you need, with no overage surprises.
Datadog’s vendor lock-in and unpredictable cost
- Datadog's agent does not support exporting data in OpenTelemetry format, limiting teams data control.
- Datadog lacks pricing controls and uses "99%" billing that artificially inflates your true usage.
Earlier detection and faster investigation of issues
Splunk provides real-time analysis and custom insights
- Splunk’s streaming platform gives you full-context on issues in 2-3 seconds to solve problems fast.
- Splunk's schema-on-read approach and proprietary time-series database helps you ask questions to your data on the fly for custom insights.
Datadog’s slower detection
- Datadog relies on 1 minute polling intervals, resulting in slower detection and missed context to solve issues.
- Datadog samples data by default and means you could be missing issues altogether.
