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."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"I like that is easy to work on and straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the connectivity monitoring."
"Fabric suite automation is a great feature."
"VCNM provides a unique capability of managing the admin VDCs of Nexus boxes."
"The product has excellent stability."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the consolidated dashboard, providing insights into parameters and overall usage of network features. It allows us to easily summarize insights through the dashboards. The solution offers automation capabilities, particularly in the context of connecting LAN sites with websites."
"The product makes the management of our environment simpler."
"You can integrate all the networks into the software."
"The feature I have found most valuable is when I can reuse existing monitors and alerts for new dashboards."
"Datadog has helped us a ton by allowing us to set up a multitude of easily configurable alarms across our tech stack and infrastructure."
"It has provided visibility with ease of implementation and allowed multiple teams to quickly onboard it."
"Because of our client focus, it is easy for us to sell. This is because it is easy to use and easy to set up."
"The fact that everything is under a single pane of glass is really valuable, as developers don't have to spend their time copying correlation IDs across tools to find what they need."
"It helps us better manage our logs."
"Datadog's log aggregation is really helpful since it lets me and every other engineer on my team login, view, and share logs when we need to debug our application."
"Datadog is providing efficiency in the products we develop for the wireless device engineering department."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It is not very easy to monitor or to browse."
"The reporting is not very intuitive and has room for improvement."
"The visibility of applications is not great."
"Could integrate better with VMware products."
"In the next release, I would like to see it merged with Prime and I think that it should be more unified."
"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."
"The solution needs to improve reports."
"The delivery Cisco Data Center Network Manager could improve if it was easier. Additionally, some feature improvement is needed."
"Their security features could be improved. We looked at their Security Monitoring feature but it was early in its development. Datadog are just getting into the security space so I'm sure this will improve in the future."
"The ability to find what you are looking for when starting out could be improved."
"The menu on the left is pretty dense (and I know it has to be). I never knew about the cmd+k functionality until recently. It would be helpful to offer more tips/cheat sheets to see handy shortcuts like that."
"It lacks consistency in the APIs."
"One thing we have run into is that it is so easy to add monitoring that we turn on things without really understanding the costs."
"We need more integration functionality, including certain metrics integration."
"We need more visibility into the error tracking dashboard."
"Graph filters for logs need to be set manually which works well for JSON but not for unstructured logs."
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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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