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."From a usability and functionality perspective, Cisco UCS Manager is very good."
"The reporting functionality will give you any report you want."
"The most valuable features are flexibility and management."
"Cisco UCS Manager is overall a good package because it gives a GUI interface and a CLI."
"I can deploy something in my 50-odd servers all in one go, in parallel, whereas if I was to do that individually, it could be a nightmare."
"The solution is highly scalable, mainly because of the templates that make it easy for you to actually edit on the system."
"The management is one of the most valuable features of this solution."
"I can quickly manage the provisioned servers."
"We can handle debugging and find out why things are breaking in our applications."
"We find they have a very helpful alert system."
"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."
"We have been able to set very specific CPU and memory alerts, at the very base level, then we started to pull real business value, like 99th percentile response rates for our API calls."
"Since we integrated Datadog, we have had increased confidence in the quality of our service, and we had an easier time increasing our delivery velocity."
"The interface and the integrations make it so easy to connect to the cloud or to the on-premise environment."
"We've been able to glean from the monitors what servers are down, and can alert the team in Slack."
"The ease with which we can filter, use metrics, and give accounts to customers, then let the customer filter, set up metrics, and alerts. This has been a big win for us."
"Cisco UCS Manager should have a simplified deployment in the sense of not having multiple machines, demilitarized zones, and on-premise options."
"There is room for improvement in the software part of Cisco UCS Manager. It should be more user-friendly, especially when creating policies."
"I found it a bit of a challenge to get training on UCSM. I've been trying to get that for some time now. I feel like I have to figure it out a lot of things myself. For years I've to log calls with support whenever I've got challenges that I cannot resolve. If I had some training or more manuals, I'd be better able to handle more things on my own."
"The solution's pricing is high and could be reduced."
"We have three data centers and if we could manage all three data centers using one interface, it would be great."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements made to their security."
"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."
"Cisco UCS Manager is not a scalable solution because once you have 160 blades, it cannot be expanded more."
"Auto instrumentation on tracing has not been very easy to find in the documentation."
"In the past two years, there have been a couple of outages."
"Ingesting data from various sources to monitor the log metrics of the system can always improve so that, if something goes wrong, the right teams are alerted."
"I found the solution to be stable, I did not experience any bugs or glitches. However, some of the managing team did."
"I'm not sure what kind of features are in the roadmap right now, but I encourage the development of features for defining your organization, and allowing the visibility of what kind of metrics you can get. Those features would be really useful for us."
"We have asked technical support questions, and sometimes they don't get back to us right away. Or when they do, it is not the right answer."
"Geo-data is also something very critical that we hope to see in the future."
"Even though it is powerful on its own, the UI-based design lacks elegance, efficiency, and complexity."
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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