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."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"The most valuable features of Checkmk are its resource monitoring, infra monitoring, and log factor configuration."
"It's versatile, scalable, and easier to use compared to other solutions like Nagios and OMD."
"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."
"The initial setup of Checkmk was easy...It is a very stable solution."
"I really like the auto-discovery feature."
"It has turned into an operational dashboard. If you felt something is going wrong, you can immediately open up Datadog. It has been our go to application because we know the answer will be there."
"Because of our client focus, it is easy for us to sell. This is because it is easy to use and easy to set up."
"The many dozens of integrations that the solution brings out of the box are excellent."
"Datadog dashboards are pretty great."
"The integration into AWS is key as well as our software is currently bound to AWS."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the APM."
"The infrastructure monitoring capabilities are really valuable. You can just log on and see everything that is happening within an IT environment."
"I like that you can build out a dashboard pretty quickly. There are some things that come out of the box that you don't really need to do, which is great because they're default settings."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"In Checkmk, the documentation can probably be improved a bit more."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"It is easy for tech-savvy people, but newcomers might find it intimidating."
"I think that the integration and the exporting of the data collected are areas where Checkmk lacks but should try to improve the most."
"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."
"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."
"More pre-configured "Monitor Alerts" would be helpful."
"I'm still exploring the trial version, and it is fine. One thing that I haven't been able to figure out is how to retrieve a report. This is something that could be improved. I probably need to navigate to a place to access the reports."
"The parallel editing of the dashboards should not cause users to lose the work of another person."
"I'm not sure if Datadog can monitor K8s deployments in real-time. For instance, being able to see a deployment step by step visually. This would be helpful if there were any incidents during the deployment."
"We need to learn more about the session reply feature inside of DD."
"Datadog is expensive."
"We would like to see some versioning system for the Synthetic Tests so that we could have a backup of our tests since they are time-consuming to make and very easy to damage in a moment of error."
"Once agents are connected to the Datadog portal, we should be able to upgrade them quickly."
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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 Elastic Observability. See our Checkmk vs. Datadog report.
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