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5 observability tools to consider

Observability tools have become an essential part of modern software engineering, allowing developers and operations teams to gain visibility of their applications and systems. With the sheer number of observability tools available, it can be difficult to decide which one is best for your specific needs. In this blog, we’ll compare five of the most popular options – Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics, New Relic and ServicePilot – to help you decide which one is right for you.

Dynatrace

Dynatrace is an all-in-one observability platform that provides real-time insights into your application performance, infrastructure health, and customer experience. With its AI-powered Root Cause Analysis and proactive alerting, Dynatrace is great for identifying and resolving performance issues quickly. It also offers a broad range of integrations and open source plugins, making it easy to integrate with your existing systems.

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Source: Dynatrace website
Datadog

Datadog is a powerful, cloud-based observability platform that provides deep insights into your application performance, infrastructure health, and customer experience. It offers a wide range of features including log management, distributed tracing, and custom metrics, as well as integrations with popular monitoring tools like Prometheus and Grafana.

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Source: Datadog website
AppDynamics

AppDynamics is an enterprise-grade observability platform that offers deep insights into your application performance and infrastructure health. It provides end-to-end visibility across the entire application stack, including application performance monitoring, logging, and APM. It also has a powerful AI-driven root cause analysis engine to quickly identify and resolve performance issues.

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Source: AppDynamics website
New Relic

New Relic is a powerful observability platform that provides deep insights into your application performance and infrastructure health. It offers a wide range of features including application performance monitoring, distributed tracing, and custom metrics, as well as integrations with popular monitoring tools like Prometheus and Grafana. It also has an AI-driven root cause analysis engine to quickly identify and resolve performance issues.

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Source: New Relic website
ServicePilot

ServicePilot is a new observability platform that provides insights into your application performance and infrastructure health. It offers a wide range of features including web transaction monitoring, application flow monitoring, log analysis, distributed tracing and custom metrics. It also features an AI-driven Root Cause Analysis engine to quickly identify and resolve performance issues in addition to standard and customizable features such as dashboards, PDF reports, mappings, alerts, etc.

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Overall, ServicePilot is a great choice for businesses looking for an effective and affordable observability tool. It is a comprehensive solution that provides visibility across all of your services and infrastructure, whether they are in the cloud, on-premises or hybrid. It is priced at a fraction of the cost of other leading observability solutions. If you are looking for an effective and affordable observability tool to quickly replace a basic monitoring tool, ServicePilot is the ideal choice, especially if you have a large network, mainframes, or UC technologies.