We performed a comparison between Cisco Data Center Network Manager and Datadog based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"Monitoring system provides a clear indication of what's going on in the network."
"The feature I find most valuable, is the stability of the solution."
"I like running the scripts. With the help of a Python script, we deployed within the configuration and built up the code."
"The product makes the management of our environment simpler."
"I don't have to rely on the on-site engineer who can do the configuration. I can have our team just plug the devices and perform remotely. I can also do the templates."
"The most valuable feature is the connectivity monitoring."
"The most valuable features of Cisco Data Center Network Manager are consistency and the core server. The teams have had a good experience."
"The product has excellent stability."
"Datadog is constantly adding new features."
"Datadog provides tracing and logging, whereas Dynatrace focuses on tracing, and Splunk is more of a logging tool. Datadog's advantage is that we don't need two tools."
"This is definitely a good product and I would consider them one of the leaders within the application monitoring and cloud monitoring space."
"APM and tracing are super useful."
"The interface and the integrations make it so easy to connect to the cloud or to the on-premise environment."
"The most valuable feature I have found is the elastic container service."
"We rely heavily on the API crawlers that Datadog uses for cloud integrations. These allow us to pick up and leverage the tags teams have already deployed without having also to make them add them at the agent level."
"By moving to Datadog, we did not need to manage our own monitoring infrastructure anymore."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"We need better performance and reliability."
"The reporting is not very intuitive and has room for improvement."
"Automation for the RMA process can be added."
"It's a relatively expensive product for some clients."
"The solution needs to improve reports."
"One of the biggest challenges is that we aren't always able to push the configuration onto the target device. Whenever this happens, we have to do a factory reset, put on the script, and then reconfigure it again. In the next release, I would like to have a troubleshooting feature."
"It would be nice to have the ability to more easily collect information from other software when doing some types of analysis."
"The automation feature could be improved."
"Graph filters for logs need to be set manually which works well for JSON but not for unstructured logs."
"It would be nice to be able to graph metrics by excluding certain tags (like you can do in monitors)."
"They should continue expanding and integrating with more third-party apps."
"Datadog could improve the flexibility with AI and ML concepts. This will allow customers to be more leveraged towards publishing."
"It could use some additional features when working with metrics like Grafana or like New Relic has. Datadog does not use library technologies like Dynatrace does. Datadog has machine learning too, but it does not have this option in all layers of monitoring like infrastructure service process in applications."
"The product could do better with its notifications."
"The solution should provide alerts for cloud outages."
"It can be overwhelming for new people as it has a lot of features."
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Cisco Data Center Network Manager is ranked 27th in Network Monitoring Software with 20 reviews while Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 137 reviews. Cisco Data Center Network Manager is rated 8.0, while Datadog is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco Data Center Network Manager writes "Provides insight into the network's health data and has an excellent support team". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". Cisco Data Center Network Manager is most compared with Marvis Virtual Network Assistant, Zabbix and Cisco DNA Center, whereas Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability. See our Cisco Data Center Network Manager vs. Datadog report.
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