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."The solution has improved the organization by providing good insights into app performance and offering good dashboards."
"The integration and configuration are incredibly simple. The SaaS offering is remarkably easy to set up, especially if you're coming from a Graphite environment or anything that uses a StatsD."
"Anything I've wanted to do, I found a way to get it done through Datadog."
"It has scaled great. I haven't run into any problems anywhere that I've used it. They have handled everything that we have needed them to."
"Datadog has a lot of features to be able to drill down deep into the swath of logs that our platforms generate."
"For us to have visibility into our app stack and the hardware we run has been highly beneficial."
"We have a better grasp of what is occurring during the deployment cycle. If something fails, we have an idea what has failed, where it has failed, and how it failed to better mitigate the situation."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboards that are provided out of the box, as well as ones we were able to configure."
"The solution is very stable. It's reliable and efficient."
"Helpdesk and inventory are both equally valuable, and they form the true core of the product."
"Spiceworks is generic and free."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"They should continue expanding and integrating with more third-party apps."
"Alerting timing should be improved to be more fine-tuned and exact."
"Lacks some flexibility in the customization."
"We need more advanced querying against logs."
"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."
"I often have issues with the UI in my browser."
"At the beginning, when we started throwing logs at it, there was a bit of hiccup. However, this was during their beta period, so hiccups were expected."
"Having an integrated asset management tool, where I can plug in things that are offline, would be good."
"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."
"Once a device was recognized on the network, Spiceworks never got rid of it even after you took it off the network. You had to go in and manually remove it."
"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."
"Since Spiceworks is a free tool, it's not very scriptable or customizable."
"Sometimes, it can be difficult to integrate what you need."
"The SNMP sniffer requires a lot of work to get right."
"The GUI must be improved."
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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