We performed a comparison between Azure Cost Management and Datadog based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Microsoft, VMware and others in Cloud Cost Management."We find the analytics available via this solution to be very useful, as it allows us to easily see detailed cost information for each of our various subscription elements."
"The product provides visibility into what we are consuming."
"The best thing about Azure Cost Management is the cost analysis functionality because it provides regular alerts."
"What I like the most about Azure Cost Management is that it's similar to a native service, and it has very well-defined product features, particularly if a customer is moving to Azure, then it gives proper insight in terms of compatibility and what benefits a customer can get from the solution."
"Microsoft's technical support is good."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of Azure Cost Management is cost optimization."
"The most valuable aspect of Azure Cost Management for me is the cost-saving recommendations based on our usage patterns."
"The solution is sufficiently stable."
"The most valuable aspect is for us to have everything in one place."
"Datadog has clear dashboards and good documentation."
"The solution has offered increased visibility via logging APM, metrics, RUM, etc."
"Profiling has been made easier."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboards that are provided out of the box, as well as ones we were able to configure."
"The visibility into our network has allowed for quick diagnosis of failures, identification of underutilized or over-utilized resources, and allowed for cloud cost optimization opportunities."
"The product has offered increased visibility via logging APM, metrics, RUM, etc."
"The affordability of licenses and subscription fees is a critical consideration, as not all companies can easily manage the cost of expensive licenses."
"Stability is an area in the solution that lacks in certain areas. So, it needs to be improved."
"The dashboard could be improved."
"I would like to see some features included for costing and more information about the components of deployment. Sometimes, it's very difficult to match the component with the solution because the descriptions are not very clear."
"The technical support could be improved."
"The forecasting model can improve Azure Cost Management."
"The solution could improve its APIs to access the customer application."
"The product's foecasting needs improvement."
"The pricing should be less of a surprise."
"The more tools that they can build that allow you to run AWX playbooks, or other similar fixes, would benefit clients greatly."
"The solution needs to integrate AI tools."
"They could have better log reporting."
"The product needs a better Datadog agent installation."
"The product needs to have more enterprise approach to configuration."
"The Log Explorer could be better. I don't think it has log manipulation as Splunk does."
"Its pricing model can be improved. Its settings should be improved for a better understanding of billing. They should also provide some alerts when there is an increase in the usage. For example, if there is 20% more increase from one week to another, the customer should get an alert."
Azure Cost Management is ranked 2nd in Cloud Cost Management with 41 reviews while Datadog is ranked 1st in Cloud Monitoring Software with 137 reviews. Azure Cost Management is rated 8.0, while Datadog is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure Cost Management writes "A good, but limited cost information solution with strong analytics but requiring more flexibility in its reporting functionality". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". Azure Cost Management is most compared with IBM Turbonomic, VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth, AWS Savings Plans, Cloudability and CloudCheckr , whereas Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability.
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