We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS Manager and Datadog based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The management is one of the most valuable features of this solution."
"Cisco UCS Manager is overall a good package because it gives a GUI interface and a CLI."
"Technical support has been good so far. We haven't had any issues with them. We're satisfied with the level of service they provide our company."
"The reporting functionality will give you any report you want."
"It is more robust than other solutions. So, the stability is good."
"When one server fails, we can attach the service profile to a new server, which saves a lot of time."
"The flexibility and the ease in which the features can be expanded are the solution's most valuable aspects."
"Ease of management is certainly the most valuable feature in this product."
"If we have a large load for users using our basic Datadog, it will immediately fire off an alert notifying us either something's wrong or not."
"Even if we don't end up using Datadog, it revealed problems and optimizations to us that weren't obvious before."
"It has provided visibility with ease of implementation and allowed multiple teams to quickly onboard it."
"It helps us better manage our logs."
"Their interface is probably one of the easiest things to use because it lets non-developers and non-engineers quickly get access to metrics and pull business value out of them. We could put together dashboards and give it to people who are non-technical, then they can see the state of the world."
"It has turned into an operational dashboard. If you felt something is going wrong, you can immediately open up Datadog. It has been our go to application because we know the answer will be there."
"The integration and configuration are incredibly simple. The SaaS offering is remarkably easy to set up, especially if you're coming from a Graphite environment or anything that uses a StatsD."
"This is definitely a good product and I would consider them one of the leaders within the application monitoring and cloud monitoring space."
"I want to be able to schedule multiple sequential updates in one go."
"Its user interface can be improved. It can be more user-friendly."
"Cisco UCS Manager should have a simplified deployment in the sense of not having multiple machines, demilitarized zones, and on-premise options."
"The automation within the solution needs to be simplified."
"Cisco UCS Manager is not a scalable solution because once you have 160 blades, it cannot be expanded more."
"There is room for improvement in the software part of Cisco UCS Manager. It should be more user-friendly, especially when creating policies."
"I would like to see Cisco UCS optionally work as a hyper-converged system because right now, it only operates as a converged system."
"What's lacking in Cisco UCS Manager is the performance dashboard. If a blade has any performance issues, you should be able to create a dashboard on Cisco UCS Manager. Currently, this feature isn't present."
"I find the training great. That said, it is set for the LCD (lowest common denominator). Of course, this is very helpful to sell the product, yet, to really utilize the product, you need to get more detailed."
"I've only been using Datadog for a few months, and at first, it was frankly overwhelming in terms of both the UI and the available capabilities."
"Geo-data is also something very critical that we hope to see in the future."
"Lately, chat support has a longer waiting time."
"It can have a more modernized pricing mechanism. We're actually working with them to figure out how to become more modular and have a better and more modernized pricing mechanism. The issue with Datadog is that you have to buy the whole suite of different products, and you kind of get stuck in the old utilization of 40% of their suite. Most organizations today break down between application development, networking, and security. Therefore, there should be a way to break down different modules into just app dev, infosec, networking, etc. Customers have various needs across their business lines, and sometimes, they're just not willing to have tools that they're not using 100%. AppDynamics is probably a little bit better in terms of being modular."
"While the tool is robust with many different capabilities, users would greatly benefit from more examples in the documentation."
"Datadog isn't as mature as some of the established players like Dynatrace or Splunk. It's a new product, so they are constantly releasing new features, and I don't have much to complain about."
"Delta traces on the Golang profiler are extremely expensive concerning memory utilization."
Cisco UCS Manager is ranked 29th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 21 reviews while Datadog is ranked 2nd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 137 reviews. Cisco UCS Manager is rated 8.0, while Datadog is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco UCS Manager writes "Used to manage servers, monitor or manage firmware upgrades, and push policies". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". Cisco UCS Manager is most compared with Cisco Intersight, Nutanix Prism, HPE OneView, Zabbix and Moogsoft, whereas Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability. See our Cisco UCS Manager vs. Datadog report.
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