We performed a comparison between Datadog and NetApp Cloud Insights based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Datadog is constantly adding new features."
"By moving to Datadog, we did not need to manage our own monitoring infrastructure anymore."
"We find they have a very helpful alert system."
"We have hundreds of microservices, and knowing how top-level requests weave throughout all of them is invaluable."
"The service catalog helped improve our organization by giving a good view of the flow for our microservices applications."
"The solution has helped out organization gain improved visibility."
"The biggest thing I liked was the combination of all the things - monitoring, log aggregation, and profiling."
"I like the amount of tooling and the number of solutions they sold with their monitoring. Datadog was highly intuitive to use."
"Its ability to quickly inventory our resources, figure out interdependencies across them, and assemble a topology of your environment is brilliant. There is a price associated with it. Whenever you target a NetApp environment, it is included in the price but whenever you want to add different vendors, like VMware and Cisco, the price greatly spikes. Inventorization helps us a lot to visualize the environment."
"All our production clusters are in Cloud Insight. It provides a single pane of glass, giving us visibility into the environment, which allows us to understand if any issues are going on across any of our clusters."
"Cloud Insights' best features are visibility and the connector to move the workloads."
"The solution is easy to deploy."
"Among the most valuable features are the queries and reporting that allow us to look at the utilization of resources, at how well the storage is performing, and to report on which resources are being used by which business units. We can track usage across the entire environment, across applications, business units, cost centers, etc."
"Cloud Secure is definitely the most valuable feature and being able to see file level activity. It gives real-time alerting on possible ransomware attacks and provides file security review. It helps us to see if something abnormal is happening on the system before it's too late."
"NetApp Cloud Insights helps with login monitoring and troubleshooting. Previously, if we had performance concerns or needed to interface with other groups and their products, a task that should require only one or two people turned into a six-person job."
"The visibility and assistance with security vulnerabilities are valuable."
"At times, it can be hard to generate metrics out of logs."
"Sometimes it’s difficult to customize certain queries to find specific things, specifically with the logging solution."
"The installation is easy for me. However, if you are new to this solution it might not be so easy."
"Datadog does not have the feature where you can monitor external websites or check the SSL secure for websites."
"While the tool is robust with many different capabilities, users would greatly benefit from more examples in the documentation."
"I'm not sure if Datadog can monitor K8s deployments in real-time. For instance, being able to see a deployment step by step visually. This would be helpful if there were any incidents during the deployment."
"When it comes to storing the logs with Datadog, I'm not sure why it costs so much to store gigabytes or terabytes of information when it's a fraction of the cost to do so myself."
"Geo-data is also something very critical that we hope to see in the future."
"The IP-based monitoring could be added in a future release."
"Most of the time, I initially connect with entry-level support, and then I need to request a higher-tier support level, which can result in delays."
"The first level of NetApp's technical support could be improved."
"Cloud Insights could offer more detail when we drill down into the Azure environment."
"In a perfect world we would have something built, right out-of-the-box, that can identify what we call "noise," and reduce the amount of data. You're presented with so much data when you first start the data collectors. For example, it brings back a lot of change rates that happen just because of standard computing, like profile changes and that sort of thing. Being able to identify things like that and categorize them and strip it down—and it probably can do that, I just haven't gotten there yet—would be very beneficial."
"There is room for improving the creating and managing or modifying of reports. That is still a difficult task to do and requires knowledge beyond the storage itself. I would love to see reporting improved so that we can create reports by dragging and dropping pieces into a report form and publish a report that way."
"When I did need support because I was having problems with the solution, the first or the second line just didn't understand it. They were providing this only on a software as a service basis. So, they were asking all the wrong questions."
"The support is not very quick."
Datadog is ranked 2nd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 137 reviews while NetApp Cloud Insights is ranked 27th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 12 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while NetApp Cloud Insights is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp Cloud Insights writes "It helps with login monitoring and troubleshooting". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas NetApp Cloud Insights is most compared with Dell CloudIQ, Zabbix, IBM Turbonomic, ServiceNow IT Operations Management and SolarWinds NPM. See our Datadog vs. NetApp Cloud Insights report.
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