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toran vs Datadog APM
Datadog APM is an observability platform focused on metrics, traces, logs, and alerts. Teams use it to monitor application health and performance over time rather than inspect individual HTTP requests on the wire.
What Datadog APM is good at
- ✓Service-level metrics, dashboards, and alerting
- ✓Distributed tracing across applications and infrastructure
- ✓Correlation of logs, metrics, and traces for operational visibility
- ✓Long-term performance monitoring and trend analysis
Where it falls short for request inspection
- △Does not show exact HTTP requests and responses as sent on the wire
- △Requires agents or SDKs and code-level instrumentation
- △Focuses on aggregated metrics and traces rather than individual API calls
How toran is different
- →toran observes outbound HTTP requests at the transport layer
- →Shows exact requests and responses without requiring SDKs or code changes
- →Designed for debugging and understanding third-party API behavior
- →Read-only by design: no alerts, automation, retries, or policy enforcement
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Quick decision rule
Use Datadog APM for monitoring, dashboards, and alerts across your systems. Use toran when you need to see exactly what HTTP requests and responses your application or agent is making.
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