We compared Datadog and Nagios Core across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Features: Datadog users like its customizable displays, error tracking, and advanced AI/ML capabilities. Nagios Core is an adaptable solution praised for its integration, customizability, and ability to effectively monitor server availability and network connectivity.
Room for Improvement: Datadog could enhance its usability and reduce its learning curve. Users said integration was another pain point. Nagios Core users have requested better documentation, improved scalability, and a more user-friendly configuration process.
Service and Support: While many users spoke highly of Datadog’s support team, others reported slow support responses, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. Nagios Core lacks direct customer service, but users can generally find help from a supportive open-source community and large knowledge base.
Ease of Deployment: Datadog’s setup is considered straightforward, and users often receive help from a partner or vendor. Nagios Core's setup is generally seen as well-documented and straightforward.
Pricing: Opinions about Datadog's price are divided. Some users found it costly, but others thought it was acceptable. Some said the pricing model could be clearer and better explained. Nagios Core is free, but users may incur costs for installation and configuration.
ROI: Users said Datadog saved them time and improved visibility into security blind spots. Nagios Core users say they have saved money by replacing paid monitoring tools with this open-source solution.
Comparison Results: Datadog is praised for its customizability, easy setup, and robust AI features, but some users say it has room for improvement in areas like usability and integration. Datadog’s pricing and customer service received mixed reviews. Nagios Core is a flexible open-source solution that is highly customizable and offers robust functionality commonly found in paid enterprise solutions. However, some users have said that Nagios Core becomes unwieldy when used at a large scale and that the documentation could be more thorough.
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Using the data, our operation teams works with the dashboards to get their statistics, analytics, etc."
"Datadog has a lot of features to be able to drill down deep into the swath of logs that our platforms generate."
"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."
"Going from viewing a metric to creating a monitor alerting on a metric is very easy."
"The solution has improved the organization by providing good insights into app performance and offering good dashboards."
"We enjoy the multistep API tests."
"The CCM, Workflows, Logs, APM, and RUM are all useful aspects of the solution."
"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."
"The application performance monitoring feature is valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Nagios Core is it allows us to develop and add as many plugins as we want."
"Dashboard provides monitor of total assets."
"The most valuable feature of Nagios Core is the ability to check the availability of the server for network connectivity. Additionally, the interface is good."
"We mostly use Nagios Core to integrate with Python and Bash Script."
"What I like about Nagios Core is that it helps me ensure everything is running smoothly by checking the status of hosts and services."
"Other products are good but from the configuration point of view Nagios is really very lightweight. The price is really good in my opinion. Another important thing is that my Nagios engine still works with Dual core 8GB ram for the last 10 years."
"The most valuable features are the reports and the way it generates the report in a graphical manner."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The error traceability is an area that can be improved."
"It does not have the best interface."
"Once agents are connected to the Datadog portal, we should be able to upgrade them quickly."
"There is occasional UI slowness and bugs."
"Alerting timing should be improved to be more fine-tuned and exact."
"The FinOps needs improvement."
"I often have issues with the UI in my browser."
"While the tool is robust with many different capabilities, users would greatly benefit from more examples in the documentation."
"Nagios Core could improve by adding a user interface. If you want the user interface you have to use Nagios XI."
"The scalability needs improvement, it's not scalable at this time."
"The mapping is a little hard."
"It would be nice if the company offered a sales or contract manager that was dedicated to our company so that we would have some sort of link to Nagios, and if we had issues or questions, we'd be able to contact them directly."
"There is room for improvement in the graphics."
"Making it a little easier to configure and set up from the start would help. There are multiple layers that you have to wade through to be able to set it up, to do it the right way, and to get it to do what you want it to do."
"I believe Nagios Core will need to provide an option for big data platforms in the future."
"The initial setup process could be easier."
Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 136 reviews while Nagios Core is ranked 7th in Network Monitoring Software with 46 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Nagios Core is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nagios Core writes "An Open Source Fully Featured Data Centre Monitoring Tool". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and AppDynamics, whereas Nagios Core is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios XI, Centreon, Icinga and OP5 Monitor. See our Datadog vs. Nagios Core report.
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