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."
"The most valuable features of Cisco Data Center Network Manager are consistency and the core server. The teams have had a good experience."
"It uses push technology, which pushes the changes to all relevant devices to ensure they are updated accordingly."
"The product makes the management of our environment simpler."
"You can integrate all the networks into the software."
"We use the product to manage access points."
"The most valuable feature is the connectivity monitoring."
"Data Center Network Manager is absolutely stable."
"Automation of the ILS."
"The solution's SaaS model is easy to manage and works well in single- or multi-cloud environments."
"The interface and the integrations make it so easy to connect to the cloud or to the on-premise environment."
"It is easy to navigate the menu and create tests."
"Using the data, our operation teams works with the dashboards to get their statistics, analytics, etc."
"Excellent autocomplete for everything in the UI."
"Going from viewing a metric to creating a monitor alerting on a metric is very easy."
"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."
"I have found some of the most valuable features to be the way things all come together that gives us a point of view that is useful. The panel is very beautiful and customizable."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The solution needs to improve reports."
"It's a relatively expensive product for some clients."
"Could integrate better with VMware products."
"The visibility of applications is not great."
"Data Center Network Manager is a little complex because it includes a lot of hardware to be installed."
"It is not very easy to monitor or to browse."
"The configuration is too complicated and you have to create templates and use a lot of menus."
"The reporting is not very intuitive and has room for improvement."
"The product is quite complex, and there are so many features that I either didn't know about or wasn't sure how to use."
"The Log Explorer could be better. I don't think it has log manipulation as Splunk does."
"It could probably be a little bit of a better user experience."
"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."
"The more tools that they can build that allow you to run AWX playbooks, or other similar fixes, would benefit clients greatly."
"The correlation between the logs and the metrics needs improvement as most cases, we might use another logging tool (that is cheaper in cost) which we then have to link together."
"We have contact with many customers that cover many areas, so we have cases where the infrastructure administration could be improved."
"The product could do better with its notifications."
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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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