We performed a comparison between Azure Cost Management and Datadog based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Microsoft, Nutanix and others in Cloud Cost Management."The features that I have found most valuable, are the trend analysis and the budgetary trigger."
"We use the solution as a cost management tool to control the budget. It is easy to mange costs with the product."
"It is easy to log in, and everything is graphical so that you can build on the published resources."
"The solution helps us diagnose and understand why some resources cost more so that we can fine-tune and reduce the cost."
"Microsoft's technical support is good."
"Good control features and user interface."
"Our customers use it and like it."
"Cost management is the console's most valuable feature."
"Its integration definitely stands out. It provides seamless monitoring of all our systems, services, apps, and whatever else we secure and monitor. Visualizations have become simpler with dashboards. We are getting visibility into systems, services, and apps stack through a single pane of glass, which is good. We are able to put logs in context."
"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."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The monitoring functionality, in general, and tagging infrastructure are great."
"The most valuable feature I have found is the elastic container service."
"The interface and the integrations make it so easy to connect to the cloud or to the on-premise environment."
"By moving to Datadog, we did not need to manage our own monitoring infrastructure anymore."
"It has saved us a lot of trouble in implementation."
"The affordability of licenses and subscription fees is a critical consideration, as not all companies can easily manage the cost of expensive licenses."
"We would like to see more flexibility added to this solution, such as being able to compare reservations, or compare costs across multiple financial years and report on the reasons for deviation in spend."
"The policy-based remediation is probably the biggest area where Azure is lacking and that's why we sell a lot of our technology to our customers."
"Stability is an area in the solution that lacks in certain areas. So, it needs to be improved."
"There are significant issues with Power BI integration at the moment, particularly with built-in applications for course management. Multiple features don't allow for efficient report generation. This is one primary concern. The second issue relates to reporting, even when using Power BI templates for course management. There are problems with data import that require manual entry. So, these are the two main challenges I'm currently facing. Another matter to consider is the removal of the markup option for partners. I'm not sure if it will be added back, but it used to allow marking up Azure usage for enterprise customers. I'm uncertain if there's an alternative way to achieve the same function. Partners need to mark up services when selling to customers, and it's currently unavailable for some products or services."
"Be wary of unnecessary costs."
"The dashboard could be improved."
"Azure Cost Management is expensive."
"The sheer amount of products that are included can be overwhelming."
"Datadog could have a better business analysis module."
"We need more visibility into the error tracking dashboard."
"There are things about it that we would like to be fixed, such as it is taking averages of average. This results in data that we don't expect."
"We have contact with many customers that cover many areas, so we have cases where the infrastructure administration could be improved."
"I sometimes log in and see items changed, either in the UI or a feature enabled. To see it for the first time without proper communication can sometimes come as a shock."
"As a new customer, the Datadog user interface is a bit daunting."
"I would love to see support for front-end and mobile applications. Right now, it is mostly all back-end stuff. Being able to do some integration with our front-end products would be awesome."
Azure Cost Management is ranked 2nd in Cloud Cost Management with 41 reviews while Datadog is ranked 1st in Cloud Monitoring Software with 137 reviews. Azure Cost Management is rated 8.0, while Datadog is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure Cost Management writes "A good, but limited cost information solution with strong analytics but requiring more flexibility in its reporting functionality". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". Azure Cost Management is most compared with IBM Turbonomic, Cloudability, AWS Savings Plans, VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth and CloudCheckr , whereas Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability.
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