We performed a comparison between Datadog and WhatsUp Gold based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Datadog offers valuable features like dashboards, reporting, error reporting, log centralization, user-friendliness for development teams, and flexibility with AI and ML capabilities. WhatsUp Gold is highly valued for its ability to automatically scan for rogue devices, cost-effectiveness, NetFlow monitoring, and server health and uptime. Datadog could enhance its usability, integration, user interface, learning curve, external website monitoring, and SSL security. WhatsUp Gold could improve its release cadence, clarity of point system, real-time monitoring, configuration management, and integration with different vendors.
Service and Support: The customer service for Datadog has been commended for its prompt and readily available assistance. Users have reported receiving instant responses and timely support. However, there have been instances of slow or unresponsive support, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region. WhatsUp Gold customer service has received a range of feedback. Some users have praised the technical support as excellent and helpful while others have encountered challenges in reaching out to support and have noted a scarcity of certified engineers in certain countries.
Ease of Deployment: Users find the initial setup of Datadog to be simple and uncomplicated, often receiving help from service providers or technical support. WhatsUp Gold's setup process is also described as uncomplicated and straightforward, especially for smaller teams.
Pricing: Datadog's setup cost has mixed opinions, with some users finding it expensive while others find it reasonable. The pricing model can be confusing and may become costly if certain features are extensively used. WhatsUp Gold offers clear pricing per device per year, without any hidden fees. Its price is considered good and reasonable, and licenses are perpetual and auto-renewable.
ROI: Users have reported experiencing varying levels of ROI with Datadog. Some have mentioned that they have achieved high ROI through time savings and faster debugging. However, there is no specific mention of the ROI for WhatsUp Gold, and the user reviews for this product vary.
Comparison Results: Datadog emerges as the preferred choice when compared to WhatsUp Gold. Users highly appreciate the ease of use and setup of Datadog, along with its impressive dashboards, error reporting, log centralization, and troubleshooting features. Its user-friendliness for development teams, user interface, integrations, and observability capabilities are also valued.
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The most valuable features are the dashboards and the reporting."
"The solution has helped our organization with custom events to track specific cases."
"This spectrum of solutions has allowed us to track down bugs faster and more rapidly, which allows us to limit revenue lost during downtime."
"We've been able to glean from the monitors what servers are down, and can alert the team in Slack."
"They have a very good foundation in capturing metrics, logs, and traces. It's a very nice tool for that and it allows you to apply these monitoring tools in almost any technology."
"Profiling has been made easier."
"We enjoy the multistep API tests."
"With Datadog I can look at the health of the technology stack and services."
"The most valuable features are network bandwidth monitoring and monitoring device health."
"The most valuable feature of WhatsUp Gold is NetFlow and the virtualized maps."
"The most important features of WhatsUp Gold are the server health and uptime it provides. Additionally, WhatsUp Gold is a Windows-based solution which is a benefit."
"WhatsUp Gold is very easy to deploy."
"It is stable."
"NetFlow monitoring, real-time monitoring, and surveys have been the most valuable features for our business."
"The user interface is good enough."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of resources."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It does not have the best interface."
"I'm not sure what kind of features are in the roadmap right now, but I encourage the development of features for defining your organization, and allowing the visibility of what kind of metrics you can get. Those features would be really useful for us."
"Datadog could be improved if it could detect other software in a container or server."
"I would like testing for data in the future."
"While the tool is robust with many different capabilities, users would greatly benefit from more examples in the documentation."
"Additional metrics should be included."
"The correlation between the logs and the metrics needs improvement as most cases, we might use another logging tool (that is cheaper in cost) which we then have to link together."
"They could have better log reporting."
"The point system is not clear and clarity around this would improve our understanding of the system."
"Pricing is too high relative to how many devices we use. The price list is not linear to number of devices."
"One of the biggest things that made us start to look at another product is we're not able to have an end to end monitoring from a user perspective throughout the system and back to the user. All the monitoring is from inside out, we need something that also can give us from outside in."
"I might like to see a better interface in the future."
"WhatsUp Gold should work on real-time monitoring and configuration management. If they succeed in doing this, the solution will cover all the network troubleshooting aspects and will be a benefit."
"The licensing model could be improved. Right now, the levels are too far apart. This causes the solution to be more expensive than it needs to be."
"The product is old and not updated."
"We can never achieve or get a good picture of the network topology."
Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 137 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 31st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while WhatsUp Gold 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 WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Grafana, SolarWinds NPM, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor and Nagios XI. See our Datadog vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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