We performed a comparison between Cisco Data Center Network Manager and Datadog based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"Monitoring system provides a clear indication of what's going on in the network."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the consolidated dashboard, providing insights into parameters and overall usage of network features. It allows us to easily summarize insights through the dashboards. The solution offers automation capabilities, particularly in the context of connecting LAN sites with websites."
"We use the product to manage access points."
"The product has excellent stability."
"VCNM provides a unique capability of managing the admin VDCs of Nexus boxes."
"I like that is easy to work on and straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the connectivity monitoring."
"The most valuable features of Cisco Data Center Network Manager are consistency and the core server. The teams have had a good experience."
"The most useful feature is the APM."
"Anything I've wanted to do, I found a way to get it done through Datadog."
"Datadog's log aggregation is really helpful since it lets me and every other engineer on my team login, view, and share logs when we need to debug our application."
"The ingestion points are unlimited and support customization. We haven't had anything yet that we haven't been able to integrate with it."
"It provides more cloud data. They tend to just get the way a service would be designed on the cloud."
"The most valuable features are logging, the extensive set of integrations, and easy jumpstart."
"Datadog's ability to group and visualize the servers and the data makes it relatively easy for the root cause analysis."
"I have found the logging and tracing features the most valuable."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The visibility of applications is not great."
"It's a relatively expensive product for some clients."
"It would be nice to have the ability to more easily collect information from other software when doing some types of analysis."
"We need better performance and reliability."
"Sometimes the product gives us problems that require support."
"It is not very easy to monitor or to browse."
"API lacks robustness."
"The automation feature could be improved."
"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."
"We need more integration with security tools like Drata."
"I want to applaud the efforts in making the UI extremely usable and approachable. My suggestion would be to take another look at how the menu structure is put together, however. Even after using the platform mostly every day for months, I still find myself trying to find a service or feature in the menus."
"Geo-data is also something very critical that we hope to see in the future."
"It seems that admin cost control granularity is an afterthought."
"The documentation could be improved regarding setting up the agent properly and debugging."
"For three to four months, we have been experiencing real-time delays. For example, if we're monitoring incoming traffic, the real-time status should be displayed up to a certain point. However, due to delays or issues with Datadog, the real-time data might only be updated at an earlier time. We are experiencing consistent delays in data updates from Datadog, with the most recent data often being delayed by about an hour. This issue has been ongoing for the past four months."
"Lately, chat support has a longer waiting time."
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Cisco Data Center Network Manager is ranked 27th in Network Monitoring Software with 20 reviews while Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 137 reviews. Cisco Data Center Network Manager is rated 8.0, while Datadog is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco Data Center Network Manager writes "Provides insight into the network's health data and has an excellent support team". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". Cisco Data Center Network Manager is most compared with Marvis Virtual Network Assistant, Zabbix and Cisco DNA Center, whereas Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and AppDynamics. See our Cisco Data Center Network Manager vs. Datadog report.
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