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, VMware and others in Cloud Cost Management."Microsoft Azure Cloud Cost Management is easy to use and we have a lot of insights about all of our goals."
"During the two years I've been working with this solution, it has only been down once or twice. Thus, I would rate the stability of the solution at nine out of ten."
"Billing management is self-explanatory. There isn't a specific feature that stands out, but it's a fundamental aspect that needs to be present."
"The most valuable features of Azure Cost Management are the ability to set standards or tagging policies and initiatives. You can achieve higher cost optimization."
"We use Azure DevOps, and the product helps us understand the cost with the help of the Azure DevOps center."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The interface is good, and it's easy to manage."
"The most valuable aspect of Azure Cost Management for me is the cost-saving recommendations based on our usage patterns."
"By moving to Datadog, we did not need to manage our own monitoring infrastructure anymore."
"Sometimes it's more user friendly for development teams. There are some parts of Datadog that are more understandable for development teams. For example, the APM in Datadog works more manually and works like the tools in New Relic or Grafana, or Elastic. It is easier to understand for software development teams."
"Datadog has clear dashboards and good documentation."
"Most of the features in the way Datadog does monitoring are commendable and that is the reason we choose it. We did some comparisons before picking Datadog. Datadog was recommended based on the features provided."
"Their interface is probably one of the easiest things to use because it lets non-developers and non-engineers quickly get access to metrics and pull business value out of them. We could put together dashboards and give it to people who are non-technical, then they can see the state of the world."
"Datadog has flexibility."
"We have a better grasp of what is occurring during the deployment cycle. If something fails, we have an idea what has failed, where it has failed, and how it failed to better mitigate the situation."
"They have a very good foundation in capturing metrics, logs, and traces. It's a very nice tool for that and it allows you to apply these monitoring tools in almost any technology."
"Stability is an area in the solution that lacks in certain areas. So, it needs to be improved."
"The dashboard could be improved."
"It would be nice if they could introduce connections to other clouds. It would be good to connect to AWS and Oracle cloud."
"What would make Azure Cost Management better is a more flexible GUI that would allow users to provide more input. Another area for improvement in the solution is its reporting. The report it provides should be easy to understand."
"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 response time of customer support can be improved."
"The solution could use automatic emailing. That would help improve the product a lot, at least for our purposes."
"I would like the developers to add more features about migration, like how much it would cost to migrate from, let's say, AWS to Azure."
"The product needs a better Datadog agent installation."
"The pricing should be less of a surprise."
"It can have an artificial intelligence component. Even though I can seamlessly look at end-to-end security, it would be better to have alerts and notifications powered by an AI engine. I am not sure if they have an AI component. We have not reached out to them or looked at it, but this is something that I keep on talking about within our company in terms of features. Such a feature would be good to have, and it would further optimize my Security Ops team's abilities."
"Delta traces on the Golang profiler are extremely expensive concerning memory utilization."
"We need more integration functionality, including certain metrics integration."
"Stability of the product has been a concern for us outside of the primary monitoring agents."
"The Log Explorer could be better. I don't think it has log manipulation as Splunk does."
"Geo-data is also something very critical that we hope to see in the future."
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, VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth, AWS Savings Plans, Cloudability and CloudCheckr , whereas Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and AppDynamics.
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