We performed a comparison between Azure Cost Management and Datadog based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Microsoft, VMware and others in Cloud Cost Management."The initial setup is straightforward."
"Our customers use it and like it."
"What I like the most about Azure Cost Management is that it's similar to a native service, and it has very well-defined product features, particularly if a customer is moving to Azure, then it gives proper insight in terms of compatibility and what benefits a customer can get from the solution."
"The most valuable feature is that it helps us to better forecast and reduce costs."
"We don't actually use the Azure Cost Management features. We have our own capabilities. We put our own technology on top of Azure as Azure doesn't deliver a really good cost optimization, so our customers come to us to enhance what they're potentially doing inside their Azure platform."
"The features that I have found most valuable, are the trend analysis and the budgetary trigger."
"I like the granularity of the tools."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the fact that it's extremely customizable. It makes it very flexible in terms of usage."
"It helps us better manage our logs."
"Datadog documentation on web pages has improved a lot and is pretty easy to follow and find."
"Datadog has flexibility."
"The seamless integration between Datadog and hundreds of apps makes onboarding new products and teams a breeze."
"The many dozens of integrations that the solution brings out of the box are excellent."
"We integrate our application logs. It is great to be able to tie our metrics and our traces together."
"APM and tracing are super useful."
"This spectrum of solutions has allowed us to track down bugs faster and more rapidly, which allows us to limit revenue lost during downtime."
"It can be difficult to determine the cost associated with certain resources as it relies on a tagging progress. This means we need to drill down billing reports to highlight and fix missing tags."
"The tool's pricing should be made cheaper."
"I would like to see better customization."
"We have encountered delays in support."
"There are significant issues with Power BI integration at the moment, particularly with built-in applications for course management. Multiple features don't allow for efficient report generation. This is one primary concern. The second issue relates to reporting, even when using Power BI templates for course management. There are problems with data import that require manual entry. So, these are the two main challenges I'm currently facing. Another matter to consider is the removal of the markup option for partners. I'm not sure if it will be added back, but it used to allow marking up Azure usage for enterprise customers. I'm uncertain if there's an alternative way to achieve the same function. Partners need to mark up services when selling to customers, and it's currently unavailable for some products or services."
"We would like to see more flexibility added to this solution, such as being able to compare reservations, or compare costs across multiple financial years and report on the reasons for deviation in spend."
"I haven't detected anything that needs improvement, but any solution could be improved."
"Azure Cost Management needs to improve scalability."
"More pre-configured "Monitor Alerts" would be helpful."
"I found the documentation can sometimes be confusing."
"The error traceability is an area that can be improved."
"There are things about it that we would like to be fixed, such as it is taking averages of average. This results in data that we don't expect."
"The documentation leaves a lot to be desired for new users."
"Datadog could be improved if it could detect other software in a container or server."
"Datadog could improve the flexibility with AI and ML concepts. This will allow customers to be more leveraged towards publishing."
"It seems that admin cost control granularity is an afterthought."
Azure Cost Management is ranked 2nd in Cloud Cost Management with 41 reviews while Datadog is ranked 1st in Cloud Monitoring Software with 137 reviews. Azure Cost Management is rated 8.0, while Datadog is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure Cost Management writes "A good, but limited cost information solution with strong analytics but requiring more flexibility in its reporting functionality". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". Azure Cost Management is most compared with IBM Turbonomic, VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth, AWS Savings Plans, Cloudability and CloudCheckr , whereas Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability.
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