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."
"I don't have to rely on the on-site engineer who can do the configuration. I can have our team just plug the devices and perform remotely. I can also do the templates."
"The most valuable feature is the connectivity monitoring."
"VCNM provides a unique capability of managing the admin VDCs of Nexus boxes."
"The interface of this solution is easy to use overall."
"I like running the scripts. With the help of a Python script, we deployed within the configuration and built up the code."
"The feature I find most valuable, is the stability of the solution."
"Data Center Network Manager is absolutely stable."
"The most valuable features of Cisco Data Center Network Manager are consistency and the core server. The teams have had a good experience."
"For us to have visibility into our app stack and the hardware we run has been highly beneficial."
"The visibility that it provides is valuable. It is helping in being proactive around incident management. It is helping us to be able to get more visibility into our customers' applications so that we can assist them at the application layer. We also provide them the infrastructure from an AWS standpoint. We are able to make sure that our customers are aware of certain critical things around the analytical piece of either the network or the application. We're able to call customers before they even know about the issue. From there, we can start putting together some change management processes and help them a bit."
"I find the greatest feature is being able to search across logs from various microservices."
"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 CCM, Workflows, Logs, APM, and RUM are all useful aspects of the solution."
"The solution's SaaS model is easy to manage and works well in single- or multi-cloud environments."
"We like the distributed tracing and flame graphs for debugging. This has been invaluable for us during periods of high traffic or red alert conditions."
"Anything I've wanted to do, I found a way to get it done through Datadog."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The visibility of applications is not great."
"Could integrate better with VMware products."
"The solution needs to improve reports."
"Sometimes the product gives us problems that require support."
"The reporting is not very intuitive and has room for improvement."
"The delivery Cisco Data Center Network Manager could improve if it was easier. Additionally, some feature improvement is needed."
"Automation for the RMA process can be added."
"We need better performance and reliability."
"Geo-data is also something very critical that we hope to see in the future."
"When I started using it years ago, it had stability problems. I remember, specifically, we ran everything in Docker containers. There were some problems getting it into a Docker container with very specific memory limits."
"In the past two years, there have been a couple of outages."
"I'm still exploring the trial version, and it is fine. One thing that I haven't been able to figure out is how to retrieve a report. This is something that could be improved. I probably need to navigate to a place to access the reports."
"ECS could be improved by including more tutorials for beginners to reduce the barriers to entry."
"If there were a more cost-effective manner of deploying the tool, we'd be more likely to adopt it more widely."
"There is occasional UI slowness and bugs."
"We need a lot of modules since we collect all data logs from all operating systems."
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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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