We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS Manager and Datadog based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The hardware is very powerful and it is a stable solution."
"Ease of management is certainly the most valuable feature in this product."
"I can deploy something in my 50-odd servers all in one go, in parallel, whereas if I was to do that individually, it could be a nightmare."
"The most valuable features are flexibility and management."
"When one server fails, we can attach the service profile to a new server, which saves a lot of time."
"Cisco UCS has different layers of security, and you can do multiple installations of your LIAMs on top of the server and Blade. You can install VMware, Windows Server, Hyper-V, etc."
"The solution is highly scalable, mainly because of the templates that make it easy for you to actually edit on the system."
"Cisco Infrastructure is one of the top vendors and no one can beat them in terms of switching and routing."
"It helps us better manage our logs."
"Datadog's ability to group and visualize the servers and the data makes it relatively easy for the root cause analysis."
"The tool's deployment is easy."
"The performance of Datadog is good."
"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."
"The observability on offer is the most useful aspect of the product."
"Using the data, our operation teams works with the dashboards to get their statistics, analytics, etc."
"Datadog provides tracing and logging, whereas Dynatrace focuses on tracing, and Splunk is more of a logging tool. Datadog's advantage is that we don't need two tools."
"Cisco UCS is expensive compared to others. The Cisco UCS Chassis is more expensive than a standalone server, but some companies require standalone servers because of their production load and affordability. You need to pay more if you require more features on the Blade or if you need more ports on the switch."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements made to their security."
"The pricing can be better."
"What's lacking in Cisco UCS Manager is the performance dashboard. If a blade has any performance issues, you should be able to create a dashboard on Cisco UCS Manager. Currently, this feature isn't present."
"I would like to see Cisco UCS optionally work as a hyper-converged system because right now, it only operates as a converged system."
"The automation within the solution needs to be simplified."
"Cisco UCS Manager is not a scalable solution because once you have 160 blades, it cannot be expanded more."
"We have three data centers and if we could manage all three data centers using one interface, it would be great."
"It could probably be a little bit of a better user experience."
"Even though it is powerful on its own, the UI-based design lacks elegance, efficiency, and complexity."
"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."
"One thing we have run into is that it is so easy to add monitoring that we turn on things without really understanding the costs."
"I would like better navigability across pages."
"When the logs are too big, and Datadog splits them, the JSON format breaks and it is not so useful for us."
"The logging could be improved in the future."
"This service could be less costly."
Cisco UCS Manager is ranked 29th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 21 reviews while Datadog is ranked 2nd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 137 reviews. Cisco UCS Manager is rated 8.0, while Datadog is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco UCS Manager writes "Used to manage servers, monitor or manage firmware upgrades, and push policies". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". Cisco UCS Manager is most compared with Cisco Intersight, Nutanix Prism, HPE OneView, Zabbix and Moogsoft, whereas Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability. See our Cisco UCS Manager vs. Datadog report.
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