We performed a comparison between Datadog and Microsoft System Center 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."The full stack of integrations made it easier to monitor the different technologies and platform providers, including Software as a Service providers, that otherwise would need a lot of work and customization to be able to see what is happening."
"It provides more cloud data. They tend to just get the way a service would be designed on the cloud."
"The dashboards are great."
"We have been able to set very specific CPU and memory alerts, at the very base level, then we started to pull real business value, like 99th percentile response rates for our API calls."
"It has saved us a lot of trouble in implementation."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the APM."
"I like the amount of tooling and the number of solutions they sold with their monitoring. Datadog was highly intuitive to use."
"Datadog's ability to group and visualize the servers and the data makes it relatively easy for the root cause analysis."
"The deployment and asset management features are the most valuable. These are the product's main features."
"The solution is easily available. That's its most valuable aspect."
"Step-by-step documentation that clarifies the implementation procedure."
"We like Microsoft System Center's Operations Manager. That is primarily why we use it."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the ease of configuration and the easy discovery of the environment."
"I like the automated features of it that let you schedule those updates and the ability of the product to focus on the specific updates, specific platforms, and products that we're interested in keeping up to date."
"The availability performance matrix and the reporting capabilities are the solution's most valuable features."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The more tools that they can build that allow you to run AWX playbooks, or other similar fixes, would benefit clients greatly."
"Datadog could always lower the price!"
"The incident management beta looks promising, but it is still missing the ability to automatically create incidents based on certain alerts."
"ECS could be improved by including more tutorials for beginners to reduce the barriers to entry."
"We have asked technical support questions, and sometimes they don't get back to us right away. Or when they do, it is not the right answer."
"The solution should provide alerts for cloud outages."
"Even though it is powerful on its own, the UI-based design lacks elegance, efficiency, and complexity."
"Once agents are connected to the Datadog portal, we should be able to upgrade them quickly."
"They should have some customized solutions or internal development, then maybe it could be easier to use different solutions or some self-developed solution."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"Implementation and integration in the case of multi-tenant environments needs improvement."
"System Center hasn't updated to keep up with the industry. It needs improvements in the user interface, ease of use, and overall product functionality, particularly the cloud-monitoring features. It needs more capabilities to monitor AWS and Azure infrastructure."
"For me, the tool's UI seems to be too old."
"We have some bugs but it's stable. It doesn't break every day. It works. Like other applications, it has a lot of bugs but they're manageable."
"The solution's dashboard needs improvement."
"Most of the documentation is online, however, there are some gaps there. The product documentation still refers back to the 2012 Server. We're pretty much in 2022. There's a ten-year gap there."
Datadog is ranked 1st in Cloud Monitoring Software with 137 reviews while Microsoft System Center is ranked 29th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 18 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Microsoft System Center is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft System Center writes "Makes user management and application management easy for users". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas Microsoft System Center is most compared with Oracle SOA Suite. See our Datadog vs. Microsoft System Center report.
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