We compared Datadog and Nagios Core across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Features: Datadog users like its customizable displays, error tracking, and advanced AI/ML capabilities. Nagios Core is an adaptable solution praised for its integration, customizability, and ability to effectively monitor server availability and network connectivity.
Room for Improvement: Datadog could enhance its usability and reduce its learning curve. Users said integration was another pain point. Nagios Core users have requested better documentation, improved scalability, and a more user-friendly configuration process.
Service and Support: While many users spoke highly of Datadog’s support team, others reported slow support responses, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. Nagios Core lacks direct customer service, but users can generally find help from a supportive open-source community and large knowledge base.
Ease of Deployment: Datadog’s setup is considered straightforward, and users often receive help from a partner or vendor. Nagios Core's setup is generally seen as well-documented and straightforward.
Pricing: Opinions about Datadog's price are divided. Some users found it costly, but others thought it was acceptable. Some said the pricing model could be clearer and better explained. Nagios Core is free, but users may incur costs for installation and configuration.
ROI: Users said Datadog saved them time and improved visibility into security blind spots. Nagios Core users say they have saved money by replacing paid monitoring tools with this open-source solution.
Comparison Results: Datadog is praised for its customizability, easy setup, and robust AI features, but some users say it has room for improvement in areas like usability and integration. Datadog’s pricing and customer service received mixed reviews. Nagios Core is a flexible open-source solution that is highly customizable and offers robust functionality commonly found in paid enterprise solutions. However, some users have said that Nagios Core becomes unwieldy when used at a large scale and that the documentation could be more thorough.
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The most valuable features have been: Sharable dashboards, TimeBoards, dogstatsd API, Slack Integration, Event logging API. CloudTrail Events, Tags, alerts, and anomaly detection. EBS Volume Snapshot Age, which they added upon request."
"I have found error reporting and log centralization the most valuable features. Overall, Datadog provides a full package solution."
"The solution has improved the organization by providing good insights into app performance and offering good dashboards."
"For us to have visibility into our app stack and the hardware we run has been highly beneficial."
"We have found that we're able to get in and out of troubleshooting issues much more rapidly, which in turn, of course, enables us to spend more time on our products."
"We integrate our application logs. It is great to be able to tie our metrics and our traces together."
"Having a clear view, not only of our infrastructure but our apps and services as well, has brought a great added value to our customers."
"I like the amount of tooling and the number of solutions they sold with their monitoring. Datadog was highly intuitive to use."
"The most valuable feature of Nagios Core is the ability to check the availability of the server for network connectivity. Additionally, the interface is good."
"The solution is quite efficient."
"We mostly use Nagios Core to integrate with Python and Bash Script."
"Nagios Core is stable."
"The notifications are definitely one of the most valuable features of Nagios Core. We know what to look for and what to expect when things are down."
"Nagios monitors our servers, so we know if anything goes wrong and can solve the problem before it happens."
"The most valuable features are the reports and the way it generates the report in a graphical manner."
"What I like about Nagios Core is that it helps me ensure everything is running smoothly by checking the status of hosts and services."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It could probably be a little bit of a better user experience."
"Delta traces on the Golang profiler are extremely expensive concerning memory utilization."
"The product could do better with its notifications."
"The real issue with this product is cost control."
"Lately, chat support has a longer waiting time."
"We'd like Datadog to make the log storage cheaper."
"Billing should be more transparent."
"It seems that admin cost control granularity is an afterthought."
"Cloud monitoring is an area for improvement because there aren't too many plugins available."
"The scalability needs improvement, it's not scalable at this time."
"The mapping is a little hard."
"The core version is no match for the XI version."
"Bandwidth monitoring is the pain point for me because Nagios Core does not monitor bandwidth effectively like Cacti does."
"There is room for improvement in the graphics."
"It is a bit slow due to latency."
"I would like to see more training videos."
Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 137 reviews while Nagios Core is ranked 7th in Network Monitoring Software with 46 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Nagios Core is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nagios Core writes "An Open Source Fully Featured Data Centre Monitoring Tool". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas Nagios Core is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios XI, Icinga, Centreon and OP5 Monitor. See our Datadog vs. Nagios Core report.
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