We performed a comparison between Datadog and Icinga 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."
"The most valuable features are logging, the extensive set of integrations, and easy jumpstart."
"It is a good one stop location where we keep all our data for our infrastructure, and it's also easier to navigate between different things."
"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."
"It has scaled great. I haven't run into any problems anywhere that I've used it. They have handled everything that we have needed them to."
"It has a nice UI."
"Its integration is most valuable because you can integrate it with various service providers such as AWS, .Net, etc."
"We integrate our application logs. It is great to be able to tie our metrics and our traces together."
"The most valuable features have been: Sharable dashboards, TimeBoards, dogstatsd API, Slack Integration, Event logging API. CloudTrail Events, Tags, alerts, and anomaly detection. EBS Volume Snapshot Age, which they added upon request."
"We have found the solution to be stable."
"There's a module called Icinga Director, which helps us configure the product using an intuitive interface through clicks instead of creating a text configuration. It's very helpful for us."
"Icinga does the job and is fairly stable."
"Macros and the ability to connect it to Google Maps are valuable features."
"An affordable solution for small organizations to do basic network monitoring."
"The drafts are easy but what I like about Icinga is that there are many add-ons that you can download."
"I like the ability to amend and adjust things really easily, which is useful in a case where you could make it auto-discover and then set a template to say all of these applications or servers under this template have an automatic threshold set that you’d set up manually."
"The best thing about the solution is how it highlights errors, the issues, and what needs my attention. The solution directs me to areas that I should look for first."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"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."
"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."
"We need more integration with security tools like Drata."
"Additional metrics should be included."
"I've found that the documentation is lacking in certain regards."
"Sometimes it’s difficult to customize certain queries to find specific things, specifically with the logging solution."
"The pricing should be less of a surprise."
"All solutions have some area to improve, and in Datadog they can improve their overall technology moving forward."
"Icinga’s automation could be improved."
"In general, the product does not look good. However, it does what it is supposed to do. So, the improvements should focus on usability and UI."
"The tool currently fails to provide notifications to users."
"I think the software is quite good, but we have had problems with getting it to recognize certain areas and amend certain checks, where we needed so we would have to create backend scripts for those checks. Though, being open source, it has the support to create backend scripts, it would be better to have these scripts in-built."
"Icinga is a complex solution that's hard to learn. It's a powerful product for monitoring, but new users will have a hard time figuring out what to do."
"One thing that Icinga lacks is the capability to create advanced and customized dashboards within the tool itself."
"One of the areas that are frustrating is remote monitoring for more than one machine."
"We have found some problems with Nagios, and support isn't very responsive."
Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 137 reviews while Icinga is ranked 22nd in Network Monitoring Software with 16 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Icinga is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Icinga writes "A stable, scalable and cost-effective solution that helps with inbuilt scripts for easy modification". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and AppDynamics, whereas Icinga is most compared with Zabbix, Checkmk, Nagios Core, Nagios XI and Meraki Dashboard. See our Datadog vs. Icinga report.
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