We performed a comparison between Datadog and Spiceworks 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."Datadog agents act as an integration to different services, providing easy access and management."
"The dashboards are great."
"The interface and the integrations make it so easy to connect to the cloud or to the on-premise environment."
"The solution has improved the organization by providing good insights into app performance and offering good dashboards."
"The flexibility to create notebooks and dashboards and fully customize them gives us a lot of power to track the exact services and endpoints we are working on."
"Datadog helps us detect issues early on and helps in troubleshooting."
"Profiling has been made easier."
"Straightforward to integrate and automate."
"The solution is very stable. It's reliable and efficient."
"Spiceworks' dashboard allows you to drill down to the notes, where I can take an inventory of the network and see the devices I need to monitor."
"The most valuable features are the inventory and personalization."
"Tickets by e-mail, with actions by hastag."
"The nice thing about Spiceworks is always it's free. Monitoring of printers for low toner. Finding machines that have low memory or low hard disk space."
"It shows the users that are currently logged in, which is not something that Active Directory by default will ever let you know up front."
"It was easy to integrate Spiceworks with our existing setup."
"Helpdesk and inventory are both equally valuable, and they form the true core of the product."
"Billing should be more transparent."
"While I like the ease of use, when compared with Tenable Nessus they could still improve their usability."
"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."
"I'm not sure if Datadog can monitor K8s deployments in real-time. For instance, being able to see a deployment step by step visually. This would be helpful if there were any incidents during the deployment."
"The way data is represented can be limiting. When I first tried it out a long time ago, you could graph a metric and another metric, and they'd overlay, but you couldn't take the ratio between the two."
"The pricing model could be simplified as it feels a bit outdated, especially when you look at the billing model of compute instances vs the containers instances."
"We would like to see some versioning system for the Synthetic Tests so that we could have a backup of our tests since they are time-consuming to make and very easy to damage in a moment of error."
"Datadog could always lower the price!"
"They've also tried to integrate it with social logins, like Twitter and LinkedIn, and that type of login authentication has no place in a corporate application."
"The SNMP sniffer requires a lot of work to get right."
"I would like to see more information when drilling down into access permissions, assignments management, or tagging. When I click a note or a device, I should be able to see more details about the router and modem. For example, I want to see the version, downtime, availability, latency, etc. I should have easy access to everything about our assets at a glance."
"I would like the solution to allow for more direct interaction with computers. I can open tickets and I can see their status, but I can't interact directly with the computers themselves."
"The network mapping could be improved. Putting together an actual bonafide network map would be really nice."
"With Spiceworks, like, when I open the websites, I have to Zoom in. I need to zoom in on those websites sometimes because it makes it horrible to use."
"Sometimes, it can be difficult to integrate what you need."
"Having an integrated asset management tool, where I can plug in things that are offline, would be good."
Datadog is ranked 2nd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 137 reviews while Spiceworks is ranked 32nd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 47 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Spiceworks is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Spiceworks writes "Good low-cost service desk system, but lacks in automation workflows and categorization ". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and AppDynamics, whereas Spiceworks is most compared with Zabbix, Lansweeper, ServiceNow, Freshdesk and ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus. See our Datadog vs. Spiceworks report.
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