We performed a comparison between Datadog and Nutanix Prism based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Datadog has proven to be easy to set up and legible for both development and operational teams."
"Datadog's seamless integration with Slack and PagerDuty helped us to receive alerts right to the most common notification methods we use (our mobile devices and Slack)."
"The integration and configuration are incredibly simple. The SaaS offering is remarkably easy to set up, especially if you're coming from a Graphite environment or anything that uses a StatsD."
"Having a wealth of information has helped us investigate outages, and having historical data helps us tune our system."
"Datadog has made it much easier to have a central place for people to look for logs and made it much easier to notify them of any elevated error rates or failures."
"The RUM solution has improved our ability to triage faster and hand more capabilities to our customer support."
"For us to have visibility into our app stack and the hardware we run has been highly beneficial."
"The ease with which we can filter, use metrics, and give accounts to customers, then let the customer filter, set up metrics, and alerts. This has been a big win for us."
"Nutanix Prism offers web scaling, which facilitates easy scaling."
"Everything has been valuable, without a doubt the server is self-managed with Prism in an efficient way, it solves possible logical errors to maintain production without interruptions, it's great."
"The centralized management of Nutanix Prism is the best feature."
"We were impressed with Nutanix, overall. Some of the other main drivers for our switch to it were the simplicity of setting up our Nutanix clusters, ease of management, and that their support is very respected. There is an overall ease of use, compared to VMware. I'm sold on their product."
"Before implementing Prism, we had an issue with too many alerts for similar issues, so it was difficult to maintain them. The alerts kept coming, and we had a hard time keeping track of everything. We had multiple alerts about CPU, RAM, and storage. Prism helps us identify and eliminate false alerts because most of them were redundant."
"Simplicity of use."
"Nutanix Prism's dashboard is very simple, and you don't need much knowledge to use it."
"There are so many valuable features but Nutanix Flow for microsegmentation of the network, and the Life Cycle Manager for dating hardware and software are among the most important for us."
"It can have a more modernized pricing mechanism. We're actually working with them to figure out how to become more modular and have a better and more modernized pricing mechanism. The issue with Datadog is that you have to buy the whole suite of different products, and you kind of get stuck in the old utilization of 40% of their suite. Most organizations today break down between application development, networking, and security. Therefore, there should be a way to break down different modules into just app dev, infosec, networking, etc. Customers have various needs across their business lines, and sometimes, they're just not willing to have tools that they're not using 100%. AppDynamics is probably a little bit better in terms of being modular."
"All solutions have some area to improve, and in Datadog they can improve their overall technology moving forward."
"The way data is represented can be limiting. When I first tried it out a long time ago, you could graph a metric and another metric, and they'd overlay, but you couldn't take the ratio between the two."
"The menu on the left is pretty dense (and I know it has to be). I never knew about the cmd+k functionality until recently. It would be helpful to offer more tips/cheat sheets to see handy shortcuts like that."
"Datadog could improve the flexibility with AI and ML concepts. This will allow customers to be more leveraged towards publishing."
"Sometimes it’s difficult to customize certain queries to find specific things, specifically with the logging solution."
"I often have issues with the UI in my browser."
"The documentation leaves a lot to be desired for new users."
"There can be some constraints on how it scales, making granular scaling difficult with the product."
"Prism is not very user-friendly, particularly in its upgrade process, compared to vSAN."
"It would be ideal if there was more of a community around the solution so that it would be easier to learn things about the solution from other users."
"The process of converting and importing virtual machines to the Nutanix environment is quite complicated."
"There are some things that you can only do via the command line. Over the years that I've been using Nutanix, they've slowly integrated those into Prism, but they're still trying to catch up with a solution that has been around longer, like VMware."
"The automation needs to be improved, as there are several challenges."
"The stability has room for improvement."
"The solution should offer the ability to change network settings without removing the network card from the virtual machine."
Datadog is ranked 1st in Cloud Monitoring Software with 137 reviews while Nutanix Prism is ranked 4th in Virtualization Management Tools with 57 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Nutanix Prism is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Prism writes "Having a centralized platform for infrastructure information has helped us with capacity planning". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and AppDynamics, whereas Nutanix Prism is most compared with Zabbix, VMware Aria Operations, Cisco UCS Manager, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) and VMware Aria Operations for Applications. See our Datadog vs. Nutanix Prism report.
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