Datadog vs. UXCam App Analytics

DataDog Is well suited to all of the Infrastructure Monitoring Solutions, DB monitoring, and other Network monitoring also. It's not well suited because it cannot give perfect Infrastructure recommendations for our use case but also For example: If we are using AWS DB to monitor performance insights then Datadog is less effective there because AWS gives very niche recommendations.

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UXCam App Analytics help identify the user pain points and improvement areas within our app. It helps observe the app from a customer's perspective and hence communication around any new updates with stakeholders get easy. These can be times when we aren't able to view the complete recordings due to delays in loading or randomisation of samples.

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• APIs, the ability to interact with the data we pull into data dog is key. We port the information over to Servicenow, so the ability to pull everything into DataDog, then Servicenow, is a key component of our success here at Wayfair.
• Simple Interface - clean, useful, effective. Allows users to use DataDog for one reason, get work done.
• Lightweight agent on hosts

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• User flow mapping. It shows how users are navigating in the app.
• App crashes
• User session recordings
• Segmentation on devices, OS versions, processors etc

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• We had a couple "integrations" that had some issues during setup, but Support addressed them very quickly
• Unnecessary alerts about DataDog components...by the time I see them, they're almost always also fixed
• I wish there was a DataDog mobile app that would have dedicated alerts (configurable per alert to override Do Not Disturb setting) instead of relying on emails notifications that could be overlooked in the midst of many incoming emails around the same time.

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• Loading time is high due to which we have to wait a lot sometimes
• In heatmaps, more properties can be added eg. User cohort, experiment id
• Provide filters to easily check the recordings by screen and feature dropoffs

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The user interface is quite intuitive with the exception of the network map. As a deployer of software, it is trivial to setup.

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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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We are still trying other products, but people still like Datadog. After setting up a dashboard, it's great for monitoring instances on Datadog. Also, the DevOps team had a good time setting up Datadog. It means Datadog was way easier to set up compared to those others.

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UXCam provided higher coverage of features than Mixpanel or Inspectlet standalone. In fact, it has the features if you combine both the products which is amazing. In a single integration I can get multiple use-cases covered.

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• Visibility into website issues and performance problems has improved our company communication.
• Handling and detecting site issues faster has improved customer satisfaction and retention.
• Configuration of the Datadog site can take a bit of time and we lost a bit of developer time during that process.

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• Improved conversions and funnels
• Better user experience and NPS
• Achieving our ambitious yearly targets well before year end

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