We performed a comparison between ControlUp 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."ControlUp has an easy installation process."
"Security, uptime, and reduced capital expenditures are the main reasons we use ControlUp. So basically, the money that we consume is based on the amount of time we are using a service."
"The most valuable features in ControlUp are endpoint monitoring and the many features that are available."
"Integration with Netscaler and Scoutbees can provide a proper end-to-end analysis of the user's experience and give us a real ROI."
"The script-based actions have allowed us to extend the core reporting capabilities."
"It has a great career time monitoring tool."
"It shows you so many details of what's going on in that log-on that, if there's a problem, you can identify it in five minutes."
"The most valuable feature is the granularity of visibility into the resources that are in use by our applications."
"It has turned into an operational dashboard. If you felt something is going wrong, you can immediately open up Datadog. It has been our go to application because we know the answer will be there."
"We integrate our application logs. It is great to be able to tie our metrics and our traces together."
"The solution has helped out organization gain improved visibility."
"The observability pipelines are the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"The dashboards and the performance of the software have been great."
"The most valuable aspects of the product include the APM and profiler."
"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."
"Datadog has clear dashboards and good documentation."
"ControlUp could improve the integration. Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop monitoring has better integration."
"Something I would love to see from a partner perspective would be maybe a way to do this in a surface hosting provider."
"The graphical user interface needs to be improved from version to version."
"It can be improved by including script-based scheduling."
"This solution be improved by including load throttling tools. For example, I can identify a service where we spend a lot of CPU but I cannot restrict the service from ControlUp. I have to use another tool like AppSense."
"We'd like to see the mobile app working again so that we can get alerts 24/7. This is especially useful for the person on call."
"The most common complaint that I have heard, at least within our organization, is about reporting. They have their own reporting. It's just that it doesn't yet include everything that you can look at within the application. You can only report on specific metrics or collections."
"Solve is a quick and intuitive tool for quickly mapping data together, however, once you have the view of the data that you like, it is difficult to share this with colleagues."
"Since the Datadog platform has so many separate features, solving so many use cases, there are often inconsistencies in feature availability and interoperability between products."
"Lacks some flexibility in the customization."
"It seems that admin cost control granularity is an afterthought."
"Sometimes, it takes a long time to load the dashboard if we have many charts."
"The product needs to have more enterprise approach to configuration."
"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."
"We want to reduce having to go to different screens to obtain all the information."
"To be very fair, I haven't had enough experience with Datadog to pick out improvements."
ControlUp is ranked 22nd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 9 reviews while Datadog is ranked 2nd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 137 reviews. ControlUp is rated 8.8, while Datadog is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of ControlUp writes "Great for troubleshooting and reporting with a controller that allows for configuration comparisons". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". ControlUp is most compared with Nexthink, Goliath Performance Monitor, Liquidware Stratusphere UX, eG Enterprise and Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring, whereas Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability. See our ControlUp vs. Datadog report.
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