We performed a comparison between Cisco Data Center Network Manager and Datadog based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network 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."
"You can integrate all the networks into the software."
"I like running the scripts. With the help of a Python script, we deployed within the configuration and built up the code."
"After installation, you almost forget that it is working."
"The feature I find most valuable, is the stability of the solution."
"It uses push technology, which pushes the changes to all relevant devices to ensure they are updated accordingly."
"I like that is easy to work on and straightforward."
"Data Center Network Manager is absolutely stable."
"Fabric suite automation is a great feature."
"The service catalog helped improve our organization by giving a good view of the flow for our microservices applications."
"It helps us better manage our logs."
"It has a high-level insight into the infrastructure model of the application and provides important detailed data on the host and metrics, which is the main concern of our customers."
"Datadog is constantly adding new features."
"Going from viewing a metric to creating a monitor alerting on a metric is very easy."
"If we have a large load for users using our basic Datadog, it will immediately fire off an alert notifying us either something's wrong or not."
"The most valuable feature I have found is the elastic container service."
"The solution is sufficiently stable."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"We need better performance and reliability."
"One of the biggest challenges is that we aren't always able to push the configuration onto the target device. Whenever this happens, we have to do a factory reset, put on the script, and then reconfigure it again. In the next release, I would like to have a troubleshooting feature."
"The visibility of applications is not great."
"It's a relatively expensive product for some clients."
"The automation feature could be improved."
"The solution needs to improve reports."
"Automation for the RMA process can be added."
"Data Center Network Manager is a little complex because it includes a lot of hardware to be installed."
"They should continue expanding and integrating with more third-party apps."
"It lacks consistency in the APIs."
"Datadog could have a better business analysis module."
"Sometimes it’s difficult to customize certain queries to find specific things, specifically with the logging solution."
"I would like better navigability across pages."
"The sheer amount of products that are included can be overwhelming."
"The product needs a better Datadog agent installation."
"All solutions have some area to improve, and in Datadog they can improve their overall technology moving forward."
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Cisco Data Center Network Manager is ranked 26th in Network Monitoring Software with 20 reviews while Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 137 reviews. Cisco Data Center Network Manager is rated 8.0, while Datadog is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco Data Center Network Manager writes "Provides insight into the network's health data and has an excellent support team". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". Cisco Data Center Network Manager is most compared with Marvis Virtual Network Assistant, Zabbix, Cisco DNA Center and SolarWinds NPM, whereas Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and AppDynamics. See our Cisco Data Center Network Manager vs. Datadog report.
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