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."
"After installation, you almost forget that it is working."
"I don't have to rely on the on-site engineer who can do the configuration. I can have our team just plug the devices and perform remotely. I can also do the templates."
"Monitoring system provides a clear indication of what's going on in the network."
"Data Center Network Manager is absolutely stable."
"The interface of this solution is easy to use overall."
"Automation of the ILS."
"It uses push technology, which pushes the changes to all relevant devices to ensure they are updated accordingly."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the consolidated dashboard, providing insights into parameters and overall usage of network features. It allows us to easily summarize insights through the dashboards. The solution offers automation capabilities, particularly in the context of connecting LAN sites with websites."
"The solution is useful for monitoring logs."
"Using the data, our operation teams works with the dashboards to get their statistics, analytics, etc."
"We can handle debugging and find out why things are breaking in our applications."
"We like the distributed tracing and flame graphs for debugging. This has been invaluable for us during periods of high traffic or red alert conditions."
"The seamless integration between Datadog and hundreds of apps makes onboarding new products and teams a breeze."
"Datadog documentation on web pages has improved a lot and is pretty easy to follow and find."
"Dashboards and their versatility are among the most valuable features."
"The tools are powerful and intuitive to set up."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Could integrate better with VMware products."
"If the customer thinks about using additional solutions, Cisco should make sure they are not left out."
"Data Center Network Manager is a little complex because it includes a lot of hardware to be installed."
"The tool's pricing strategy could be improved to compete more effectively in the market, especially against competitors like Huawei, Aruba, and Juniper."
"The solution needs to improve reports."
"The configuration is too complicated and you have to create templates and use a lot of menus."
"The reporting is not very intuitive and has room for improvement."
"API lacks robustness."
"In the past two years, there have been a couple of outages."
"Some of the interface is still confusing to use."
"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."
"To be very fair, I haven't had enough experience with Datadog to pick out improvements."
"I would like testing for data in the future."
"The pricing model could be simplified as it feels a bit outdated, especially when you look at the billing model of compute instances vs the containers instances."
"I want to applaud the efforts in making the UI extremely usable and approachable. My suggestion would be to take another look at how the menu structure is put together, however. Even after using the platform mostly every day for months, I still find myself trying to find a service or feature in the menus."
"At times, it can be hard to generate metrics out of logs."
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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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