We performed a comparison between Cisco Intersight 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 tool helps to manage Cisco servers."
"Scalable portfolio of services for remote device management, with good cloud integration. It's also easy to set up."
"Cisco Intersight has valuable features for workflow automation and inventory administration."
"Intersight can validate our environment."
"Provides an overall view using a single portal."
"The product has good integration."
"We enjoy having an inside view of all the data centers and all the EdgeX nodes within a single portal rather than going into the EdgeX connections one by one."
"Our organization uses Cisco Intersight since it helps manage our physical infrastructure."
"I like the amount of tooling and the number of solutions they sold with their monitoring. Datadog was highly intuitive to use."
"The CCM, Workflows, Logs, APM, and RUM are all useful aspects of the solution."
"Having a clear view, not only of our infrastructure but our apps and services as well, has brought a great added value to our customers."
"Datadog has proven to be easy to set up and legible for both development and operational teams."
"Dashboards and their versatility are among the most valuable features."
"Its integration is most valuable because you can integrate it with various service providers such as AWS, .Net, etc."
"It has empowered all our platform engineers with a very powerful and easy to use monitoring system."
"The ease of correcting these dashboards and widgets when needed is amazing."
"It's a very complex solution."
"When new features are added, the service becomes full of bugs."
"The product's setup should be easier."
"The solution needs some enhancement in order to build the cluster in two nodes."
"An area for improvement in Cisco Intersight is automation. It needs more automation capabilities. Apart from enhanced automation, I want Cisco Intersight to integrate with third-party monitoring tools in its next release."
"The product could be easy to use."
"In the future, the solution needs to plan on an extension to cover a broader range of objects since, at present, there are some Cisco devices within the range of Intersight UCS that it can't manage."
"The usability must be better."
"I've found that the documentation is lacking in certain regards."
"Delta traces on the Golang profiler are extremely expensive concerning memory utilization."
"I would love to see support for front-end and mobile applications. Right now, it is mostly all back-end stuff. Being able to do some integration with our front-end products would be awesome."
"At times, it can be hard to generate metrics out of logs."
"We want to reduce having to go to different screens to obtain all the information."
"Geo-data is also something very critical that we hope to see in the future."
"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."
"It lacks consistency in the APIs."
Cisco Intersight is ranked 25th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 10 reviews while Datadog is ranked 2nd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 137 reviews. Cisco Intersight is rated 7.8, while Datadog is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco Intersight writes "Helps know whether a solution is deployed correctly, but the automation capabilities are difficult to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". Cisco Intersight is most compared with Cisco UCS Manager, HPE OneView, IBM Turbonomic, VMware Aria Automation and LogicMonitor, whereas Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability. See our Cisco Intersight vs. Datadog report.
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