Compuware Strobe (discontinued) vs. Datadog

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)
Score 9.9 out of 10
N/A
Compuware Strobe, later acquired by BMC, was a performance management and analysis solution for mainframe applications used to pinpoint application inefficiencies causing excessive CPU consumption. The product has reached end of life.N/A
Datadog
Score 8.6 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
Pricing
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Datadog
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
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
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Datadog
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing. Multi-Year/Volume discounts available (500+ hosts/mo).
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Community Pulse
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Datadog
Features
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Datadog
Application Performance Management
Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)
7.2
1 Ratings
7% below category average
Datadog
-
Ratings
Application monitoring7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Database monitoring6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Threshold alerts8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive capabilities6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Application performance management console8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Collaboration tools8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Application dependency mapping and thresholding8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Virtualization monitoring7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
IT Asset Discovery7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Datadog
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.4
(55 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.2
(34 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(6 ratings)
User Testimonials
Compuware Strobe (discontinued)Datadog
Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
Compuware Strobe is very essential if you are working in a multi-system environment to constantly measure the activity of your applications. My setup involves deploying bots to perform repetitive tasks. With Compuware Strobe, I'm able to conduct early tests on codes that reduce by great margins performance issues on the development cycle; It's why I'm making a good recommendation for it.
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Datadog
As per my experience, Datadog is best suited for complex, cloud-native environments where unified observability is critical, as it integrates seamlessly with AWS and Azure. Moreover, it provides deep visibility into latency and error rates. Datadog pricing is less appropriate for Startups with a tight budget and for organizations needing advanced incident management.
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Pros
Discontinued Products
  • Runs detailed analysis on captured data to aid in tuning applications.
  • It's possible to run early tests on the bots' codes to detect early performance issues.
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Datadog
  • The thing which Datadog does really well, one of them are its broad range of services integrations and features which makes it one step observability solution for all. We can monitor all types of our application, infrastructure, hosts, databases etc with Datadog.
  • Its custom dashboard feature which helps us to visualize the data in a better way . It supports different types of charts through those charts we can create our dashboard more attractive.
  • Its AI powered alerting capability though that we can easily identify the root cause and also it has a low noise alerting capability which means it correlated the similar type of issues.
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Cons
Discontinued Products
  • Does not collect all performance indicators(toolchain measurements) in early CI pipelines.
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Datadog
  • In my experience, .NET Tracing Agent caused severe and untraceable performance issues
  • In my opinion, usage and billing structures were opaque and surprising
  • In my experience, documentation was incomplete, contradicting or sometimes completely wrong, even for common infrastructure (AWS Fargate)
  • I feel support was unhelpful at times, and bounced us back and forth to other teams
  • In my opinion, multiple methods of sample rate control were ineffective, adding to excessive usage and cost
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Likelihood to Renew
Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Datadog
Definitely will not revisit after our issues and, in my opinion, poor support.
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Usability
Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Datadog
There are so many features that it can be hard to figure out where you need to go for your own use case. For example, RUM monitoring us buried in a "Digital Experience" sidebar setting when this is one of our key use cases that I sometimes struggle to find in the application. It appears that ECS + Fargate monitoring was recently released which is great because we had to build a lambda reporting solution for ephemeral task monitoring. But this new feature was never on my radar until I starting clicking around the application.
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Support Rating
Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Datadog
The support team usually gets it right. We did have a rather complicate issue setting up monitoring on a domain controller. However, they are usually responsive and helpful over chat. The downside would be I don’t think they have any phone support. If that is important to you this might not be a good fit.
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Implementation Rating
Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Datadog
Documentation was difficult to work through, rollout was catastrophic (completely outage)
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Alternatives Considered
Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Datadog
Our logs are very important, and Datadog manages them exceptionally well. We frequently use Datadog services for our investigations. Use case: Monitor your apps, infrastructure, APIs, and user experience.


Key features:


Logs, metrics, and APM (Application Performance Monitoring)


Real-time alerting and dashboards


Supports Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, and other integrations


RUM (Real User Monitoring) and Synthetics





✅ Best for backend, server, and distributed systems monitoring.
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Return on Investment
Discontinued Products
  • It has helped us identify issues affecting our and our clients' applications' performance.
  • Smoothened robots deployment.
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Datadog
  • Saved us (time & money) from developing our own monitoring utilities that would pale in comparison
  • Alerts allow us to remedy issues before our customers even know about them
  • Tracking resource usage over time allows us to better plan for future needs, before it becomes a pain-point.
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ScreenShots

Datadog Screenshots

Screenshot of the out-of-the-box and customizable monitoring dashboards.Screenshot of Datadog's collaboration features, where users can discuss issues in-context with production data, annotate changes and notify their teams, see who responded to that alert before, and discover what was done to fix it.Screenshot of where Datadog unifies traces, metrics, and logs—the three pillars of observability.Screenshot of some of Datadog's 400+ built-in integrations.Screenshot of Datadog's Service Map, which decomposes an application into all its component services and draws the observed dependencies between these services in real timeScreenshot of centralized log data, pulled from any source.