Splunk vs Datadog: Which Observability Solution is Best?

Speed and Efficiency

• Splunk Observability Cloud offers the fastest insights into your entire stack. Our streaming architecture and AI-driven analytics alert on problems in seconds and automatically surface recommendations and actionable insights.
• Splunk Observability Cloud offers the only end-to-end full-fidelity NoSample™ distributed tracing that stores the data of every single trace, providing the level of detail needed to resolve any issue.
• Splunk Observability Cloud empowers developers with modern, high performance tools so that they spend less of their time troubleshooting.

Platforms built for today’s Data Age

• Splunk’s solutions are designed to address the complexities of cloud-native environments at scale.
• Splunk is committed to open source data collection. OpenTelemetry (which Splunk co-founded via Omnition) eliminates the risk of vendor lock-in and gives developers more control over their data.
• Out-of-the-box Kubernetes monitoring, full-fidelity APM and RUM, comprehensive logs, synthetic monitoring with web optimization, and intelligent incident response.
• Splunk’s Observability Cloud offers a superior UI with a dynamic service map that allows you to see the root cause of errors immediately, explore your data based on any combination of tags, and easily understand how your application is behaving, so that you can spend less time troubleshooting and more time innovating.