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."We have hundreds of microservices, and knowing how top-level requests weave throughout all of them is invaluable."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboards that are provided out of the box, as well as ones we were able to configure."
"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."
"It is easy to navigate the menu and create tests."
"Datadog has a lot of features to be able to drill down deep into the swath of logs that our platforms generate."
"Datadog has proven to be easy to set up and legible for both development and operational teams."
"For us to have visibility into our app stack and the hardware we run has been highly beneficial."
"With Datadog I can look at the health of the technology stack and services."
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"The solution can find all asset details automatically, whether it's a Mac address, computer name, IP address, models, etc. It's very helpful."
"The solution is easy to use and easy to manage."
"It was easy to integrate Spiceworks with our existing setup."
"The most valuable features are the inventory and personalization."
"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."
"If you're in the market for a low-cost service desk system, Spiceworks is a good software solution to start out with, especially when it comes to startups and those organizations that don't currently have any existing service desk software in place."
"It lets us know whether devices are getting out of date and tracked warranties. Spiceworks also gave me visibility in terms of what software was installed on each device and its status."
"We need to learn more about the session reply feature inside of DD."
"The documentation leaves a lot to be desired for new users."
"It is very difficult to make the solutions fit perfectly for large organizations, especially in terms of high cardinality objects and multi-tenancy, where the data needs to be rolled up to a summarized level while maintaining its individual data granularity and identifiers."
"The logging could be improved in the future."
"At times, it can be hard to generate metrics out of logs."
"The product could be improved by providing remote control to agents, enabling them to execute automation and collections without requiring another automation tool or integration."
"The setup was a bit complex."
"Billing should be more transparent."
"There are a lot of disadvantages to Spiceworks because it's not an agent-based solution."
"Having an integrated asset management tool, where I can plug in things that are offline, would be good."
"Since Spiceworks is a free tool, it's not very scriptable or customizable."
"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 GUI must be improved."
"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."
"The network mapping could be improved. Putting together an actual bonafide network map would be really nice."
"It would be nice to have remote access to the solution via a tablet. They also need remote control from a PC. Right now, to complete the technical support process, you have to have a tool to access the PC, and check the problems."
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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