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We performed a comparison between Azure Cost Management and Datadog based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"The best thing about Azure Cost Management is the cost analysis functionality because it provides regular alerts.""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.""Good control features and user interface.""My organization benefits from the tool's performance and time-saving features.""The most valuable feature of Azure Cost Management is its way of segregating accounts based on resources.""The solution helps us diagnose and understand why some resources cost more so that we can fine-tune and reduce the cost.""It is easy to log in, and everything is graphical so that you can build on the published resources.""The initial setup is straightforward."

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"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.""Even if we don't end up using Datadog, it revealed problems and optimizations to us that weren't obvious before.""The service catalog helped improve our organization by giving a good view of the flow for our microservices applications.""The ability to send notifications based on metadata from the monitor is helpful.""By moving to Datadog, we did not need to manage our own monitoring infrastructure anymore.""The most valuable features are the dashboards and the reporting.""Datadog dashboards are pretty great.""It is easy to navigate the menu and create tests."

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Cons
"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.""Optimization and scalability could be increased.""Improved integration with other solutions could definitely be beneficial.""All the offers should be on the console. You shouldn't need to select from different tabs.""The product's foecasting needs improvement.""I haven't detected anything that needs improvement, but any solution 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."

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"I think better access to their engineers when we have a problem could be better.""Even though it is powerful on its own, the UI-based design lacks elegance, efficiency, and complexity.""We want to reduce having to go to different screens to obtain all the information.""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.""Federated views for Datadog dashboards are critical as large companies utilize multiple instances of the product and cannot link the metrics or correlate the metrics together. This stunts the usage of Datadog.""Since the Datadog platform has so many separate features, solving so many use cases, there are often inconsistencies in feature availability and interoperability between products.""Ingesting data from various sources to monitor the log metrics of the system can always improve so that, if something goes wrong, the right teams are alerted.""Additional metrics should be included."

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  • "It's free out of the box."
  • "I think the solution was free initially."
  • "Based on the transitional cost we charge, it's not expensive, but could be better."
  • "The solution is free. It's part of having an Azure subscription."
  • "I give the solution's overall cost an eight out of ten."
  • "I rate the price of Azure Cost Management an eight out of ten."
  • "Customers do not need to pay for the product's license, and the product is free of cost."
  • "The tool's pricing is yearly."
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  • "​Pricing seems reasonable. It depends on the size of your organization, the size of your infrastructure, and what portion of your overall business costs go toward infrastructure."
  • "It has always scaled for us. Cost scales up too, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. It's reasonable for what they're providing."
  • "Pricing and licensing are reasonable for what they give you. You get the first five hosts free, which is fun to play around with. Then it's about four dollars a month per host, which is very affordable for what you get out of it. We have a lot of hosts that we put a lot of custom metrics into, and every host gives you an allowance for the number of custom metrics."
  • "At my last company, we did see ROI, specifically around response time. We could get to mission critical things that were down and losing revenue on immediately. So, the product paid itself back."
  • "The pricing and licensing through AWS Marketplace has been good. It would be nice if it was cheaper, but their pricing is reasonable for what it is. Sometimes, for their newer features, they charge as if it's fully fleshed out, even though it is a newer feature and it may have less stuff than their other items."
  • "It costs the same amount it would if we were hosting it ourselves, so we are incredibly happy with the cost."
  • "The pricing came up a bit compared to their competitors. It is not that the price has risen, but that the competitors have gone down. They keep adding more features that I would have expected to be baked in at a more nominal price. I have been increasingly dissatisfied with the pricing, but not enough to jump ship."
  • "It didn't scale well from the cost perspective. We had a custom package deal."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Gives visibility into the cost of cloud-based solutions.
    Top Answer:The product comes free. There is no cost associated with the product.
    Top Answer:There are many factors and we know little about your requirements (size of org, technology stack, management systems, the scope of implementation). Our goal was to consolidate APM and infra… more »
    Top Answer:With Datadog, we have near-live visibility across our entire platform. We have seen APM metrics impacted several times lately using the dashboards we have created with Datadog; they are very good core… more »
    Top Answer:Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether the Datadog or Dynatrace network monitoring software was the better fit for us. We decided to go with Dynatrace. Dynatrace offers network… more »
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    Also Known As
    Microsoft Azure Cost Management, Cloudyn
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    Overview

    Azure Cost Management empowers organizations to monitor cloud spend, drive organizational accountabilities, and optimize cloud efficiency so they can accelerate future cloud investments with confidence.

    Datadog is a cloud monitoring solution that is designed to assist administrators, IT teams, and other members of an organization who are charged with keeping a close eye on their networks. Administrators can use Datadog to set real-time alerts and schedule automated report generation. They can deal with issues as they arise and keep up to date with the overall health of their network while still being able to focus on other tasks. Users can also track the historical performance of their networks and ensure that they operate at the highest possible level.

    Datadog Benefits

    Some of the ways that organizations can benefit by deploying Datadog include:

    • Gain an integrated view of the services and programs that IT teams are employing across their networks. Users can view and monitor all of the disparate programs that they have running across their networks with this one solution. They can track these programs across the entirety of the data’s life cycle.
    • Analyze and utilize massive amounts of data in real time. Datadog’s dashboards gather data in real time. Administrators can utilize their network’s data the minute that it becomes relevant to them. Decisions can be made based on the most current information available.
    • Keep your cloud network secured against digital threats. Datadog enables users to create alerts that will notify the minute that threats arise. IT teams and administrators can rapidly address any issue that comes up and prevent any existing problem from growing worse.
    • Easily get it up and running. Users can set up Datadog, configure it, and employ API integrations to connect it to external solutions with ease.

    Datadog Features

    • Customizable and prefabricated monitoring dashboards. Administrators are supplied with two different types of dashboards that they can choose from when they are setting up Datadog. They can customize the dashboards to fit any specialized monitoring need. Additionally, users can choose to use prefabricated dashboards that come with the solution.
    • Disaster recovery feature. Datadog has a built-in feature that enables organizations to continue functioning if some disaster strikes their network. If the network suffers damage, Datadog can restore lost data and infrastructure. Should a digital threat do damage to the network, Datadog ensures that the damage is not irreparable.
    • Vulnerability scanning tool. Users can keep ahead of threats to their networks by employing Datadog’s vulnerability scanning feature. This tool scans the entirety of a user’s network and warns them if a vulnerability is detected. Users can then move to patch these holes in their security before the threat to their network can escalate.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Datadog is a solution that stands out when compared to many of its competitors. It can offer organizations many advantages. Two major advantages are the dashboards that users can create and the monitoring capability that it gives system administrators.

    A senior manager in charge of site reliability engineering at Extra Space Storage writes, “The dashboards we created are core indicators of the health of our system, and it is one of the most reliable sources we have turned to, especially as we have seen APM metrics impacted several times lately. We can usually rely on logs to tell us what the apps are doing.”

    Housecall Pro’s senior director of DevOps writes, “We value the monitoring capability since it allows us to be pushed alerts, rather than having to observe graphs continually.

    Sample Customers
    Quixey, Infomedia, Panaya, Wix.com, Mirabeau, Mi9, GetTaxi, Outsmart Studios, Bownty, BlazeMeter: The Load Testing Cloud, Irdeto, Effective Measure, Totango, Nextdoor, BranchOut, The BioTeam, Evolven, Netotiate, ClickSoftware
    Adobe, Samsung, facebook, HP Cloud Services, Electronic Arts, salesforce, Stanford University, CiTRIX, Chef, zendesk, Hearst Magazines, Spotify, mercardo libre, Slashdot, Ziff Davis, PBS, MLS, The Motley Fool, Politico, Barneby's
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    Computer Software Company25%
    Manufacturing Company15%
    Pharma/Biotech Company10%
    Financial Services Firm10%
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    Computer Software Company16%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Healthcare Company5%
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    Financial Services Firm22%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Comms Service Provider11%
    Manufacturing Company5%
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    Educational Organization31%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Manufacturing Company7%
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    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise64%
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    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise66%
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    Small Business37%
    Midsize Enterprise20%
    Large Enterprise43%
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    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise38%
    Large Enterprise46%
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    Azure Cost Management is ranked 2nd in Cloud Cost Management with 41 reviews while Datadog is ranked 1st in Cloud Monitoring Software with 136 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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