We performed a comparison between Checkmk and Datadog based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The most valuable features of Checkmk are its resource monitoring, infra monitoring, and log factor configuration."
"The initial setup of Checkmk was easy...It is a very stable solution."
"It's versatile, scalable, and easier to use compared to other solutions like Nagios and OMD."
"I really like the auto-discovery feature."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it has a lot of different pieces, and they all work together...It is a very scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"We can monitor multiple sites using the product."
"With Datadog I can look at the health of the technology stack and services."
"It is a good one stop location where we keep all our data for our infrastructure, and it's also easier to navigate between different things."
"The ability to easily drill down into log queries quickly and efficiently has helped us to resolve several critical incidents."
"Datadog documentation on web pages has improved a lot and is pretty easy to follow and find."
"The RUM solution has improved our ability to triage faster and hand more capabilities to our customer support."
"Datadog has flexibility."
"The tools are powerful and intuitive to set up."
"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 technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I think that the integration and the exporting of the data collected are areas where Checkmk lacks but should try to improve the most."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"Sometimes we receive alerts, and it can become annoying when you acknowledge an alert. It is very clunky when you acknowledge the alert. The process is not very intuitive, and there are instances where it feels a bit cumbersome to acknowledge an alert."
"It is easy for tech-savvy people, but newcomers might find it intimidating."
"If an alert is generated for a specific pattern in the log, and if Checkmk catches that log, it will stay there even after the alert is resolved."
"In Checkmk, the documentation can probably be improved a bit more."
"To be very fair, I haven't had enough experience with Datadog to pick out improvements."
"When it comes to storing the logs with Datadog, I'm not sure why it costs so much to store gigabytes or terabytes of information when it's a fraction of the cost to do so myself."
"Datadog could have a better business analysis module."
"We need a lot of modules since we collect all data logs from all operating systems."
"The product is quite complex, and there are so many features that I either didn't know about or wasn't sure how to use."
"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."
"Datadog could be improved if it could detect other software in a container or server."
"It would be nice to be able to graph metrics by excluding certain tags (like you can do in monitors)."
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Checkmk is ranked 15th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 6 reviews while Datadog is ranked 1st in Cloud Monitoring Software with 137 reviews. Checkmk is rated 8.6, while Datadog is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Checkmk writes "A reasonably priced tool for system and application monitoring". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". Checkmk is most compared with Zabbix, Icinga, Netdata, Centreon and Observium, whereas Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and AppDynamics. See our Checkmk vs. Datadog report.
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