We compared Datadog and Nagios Core across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Features: Datadog users like its customizable displays, error tracking, and advanced AI/ML capabilities. Nagios Core is an adaptable solution praised for its integration, customizability, and ability to effectively monitor server availability and network connectivity.
Room for Improvement: Datadog could enhance its usability and reduce its learning curve. Users said integration was another pain point. Nagios Core users have requested better documentation, improved scalability, and a more user-friendly configuration process.
Service and Support: While many users spoke highly of Datadog’s support team, others reported slow support responses, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. Nagios Core lacks direct customer service, but users can generally find help from a supportive open-source community and large knowledge base.
Ease of Deployment: Datadog’s setup is considered straightforward, and users often receive help from a partner or vendor. Nagios Core's setup is generally seen as well-documented and straightforward.
Pricing: Opinions about Datadog's price are divided. Some users found it costly, but others thought it was acceptable. Some said the pricing model could be clearer and better explained. Nagios Core is free, but users may incur costs for installation and configuration.
ROI: Users said Datadog saved them time and improved visibility into security blind spots. Nagios Core users say they have saved money by replacing paid monitoring tools with this open-source solution.
Comparison Results: Datadog is praised for its customizability, easy setup, and robust AI features, but some users say it has room for improvement in areas like usability and integration. Datadog’s pricing and customer service received mixed reviews. Nagios Core is a flexible open-source solution that is highly customizable and offers robust functionality commonly found in paid enterprise solutions. However, some users have said that Nagios Core becomes unwieldy when used at a large scale and that the documentation could be more thorough.
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The product has offered increased visibility via logging APM, metrics, RUM, etc."
"The solution's SaaS model is easy to manage and works well in single- or multi-cloud environments."
"We've found it most useful for managing Rstudio Workbench, which has its own logs that would not be picked up via Cloudwatch."
"For us to have visibility into our app stack and the hardware we run has been highly beneficial."
"We integrate our application logs. It is great to be able to tie our metrics and our traces together."
"The solution is useful for monitoring logs."
"Flame graphs are pretty useful for understanding how GraphQL resolves our federated queries when it comes to identifying slow points in our requests. In our microservice environment with 170 services."
"The most valuable aspects of the product include the APM and profiler."
"Provides timely notifications."
"Dashboard provides monitor of total assets."
"The most valuable features are the reports and the way it generates the report in a graphical manner."
"Nagios Core is very configurable. Whatever you want, you can do it."
"Key features include the GUI interface, its notification capabilities, and the real-time reporting."
"The most valuable feature depends on the project. It's great if you need to check to ensure a service is running 24/7. I can use the full solution for free, and it's flexible. If I need to add a dashboard, I can integrate it with Nagios. Cloud synchronization is wonderful."
"Our customers like that Nagios Core is an open source solution. It can be customized to our customers' specific needs."
"Other products are good but from the configuration point of view Nagios is really very lightweight. The price is really good in my opinion. Another important thing is that my Nagios engine still works with Dual core 8GB ram for the last 10 years."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I sometimes log in and see items changed, either in the UI or a feature enabled. To see it for the first time without proper communication can sometimes come as a shock."
"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."
"ECS could be improved by including more tutorials for beginners to reduce the barriers to entry."
"As a new customer, the Datadog user interface is a bit daunting."
"When the logs are too big, and Datadog splits them, the JSON format breaks and it is not so useful for us."
"It seems that admin cost control granularity is an afterthought."
"The FinOps needs improvement."
"At the beginning, when we started throwing logs at it, there was a bit of hiccup. However, this was during their beta period, so hiccups were expected."
"Cloud monitoring is an area for improvement because there aren't too many plugins available."
"It's not that easy to install the product itself. Also, the UI is a bit hard for regular users to navigate through."
"Would benefit from aggregations if a particular server goes down."
"Nagios Core can improve the graphical interface, it would make things a little easier."
"I believe Nagios Core will need to provide an option for big data platforms in the future."
"The user interface could be more interactive because it is pretty basic."
"It is a bit slow due to latency."
"The dashboard and monitoring features could be improved."
Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 137 reviews while Nagios Core is ranked 7th in Network Monitoring Software with 46 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Nagios Core is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nagios Core writes "An Open Source Fully Featured Data Centre Monitoring Tool". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas Nagios Core is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios XI, Icinga, Centreon and OP5 Monitor. See our Datadog vs. Nagios Core report.
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