"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."
"It is good for giving an overview of the systems and for tracking long-term trends. It is handy for root cause analysis, e.g. it can eliminate whether storage is the cause of an issue."
"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."
"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."
"I like that you can build out a dashboard pretty quickly. There are some things that come out of the box that you don't really need to do, which is great because they're default settings."
"Because of our client focus, it is easy for us to sell. This is because it is easy to use and easy to set up."
"The most valuable features are the dashboards and the reporting."
"Having a clear view, not only of our infrastructure but our apps and services as well, has brought a great added value to our customers."
"I have found error reporting and log centralization the most valuable features. Overall, Datadog provides a full package solution."
"Datadog is constantly adding new features."
"The application performance monitoring is pretty good."
"Its integration is most valuable because you can integrate it with various service providers such as AWS, .Net, etc."
"The most valuable feature is service assurance."
"Like other common Linux distributions, some of the most valuable features of this solution are the ease of use and deployment. It's simple and has a lot of packages and a lot of software."
"It has an intuitive UI with beautiful graphs and customizable maps."
"We are able to monitor our virtual infrastructure, virtual machines, windows servers, databases, and the network using a simple network management protocol. We are able to pull almost all the metrics that we want, receive notifications, and have them integrate with telegrams for certain devices that are critical, such as UPSs."
"Every new asset placed in the environment can be automatically detected, predicting human failures."
"The basic setup is very easy."
"The most valuable feature is monitoring."
"We have found that Zabbix is more easy to use than other applications."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Their pricing model needs improvement."
"I think better access to their engineers when we have a problem could be better."
"Could be a little more user friendly."
"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."
"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."
"The installation is easy for me. However, if you are new to this solution it might not be so easy."
"All solutions have some area to improve, and in Datadog they can improve their overall technology moving forward."
"The Log Explorer could be better. I don't think it has log manipulation as Splunk does."
"It can have a more modernized pricing mechanism. We're actually working with them to figure out how to become more modular and have a better and more modernized pricing mechanism. The issue with Datadog is that you have to buy the whole suite of different products, and you kind of get stuck in the old utilization of 40% of their suite. Most organizations today break down between application development, networking, and security. Therefore, there should be a way to break down different modules into just app dev, infosec, networking, etc. Customers have various needs across their business lines, and sometimes, they're just not willing to have tools that they're not using 100%. AppDynamics is probably a little bit better in terms of being modular."
"Implementation is always tailored to the customer and the kind of information we need from the client to carry it out can make them very uncomfortable. Sometimes the clients are not ready to share it."
"Correlation of events would be a wonderful addition."
"The user interface could be a bit better. They could update it a bit."
"It would be helpful if they translated the documentation to Cyrillic languages."
"For us, the initial setup was complex"
"The APM monitoring has room for improvement, although I hear that the new 5.2 version has some improvements in that area, and I'd like to give that a go. I would like to see a few more templates out there for different styles of monitoring. I use the Grafana interface for reporting. I would also like it to have an out-of-the-box ability to email reports. You can create reports, but to be able to email those reports would be really helpful. I've got users who are not interested in logging in and generating a report. They want it all pre-canned and sent to an email address. It would also be really handy if we could pin certain reports up onto platforms such as Teams or SharePoint. A GUI for the proxy server would be cool to have for debugging purposes and for the support teams to have a look at, but I don't know whether that's really feasible to do. I get enough from the log files themselves."
"I would like to see a more flexible mobile client, and better HA out of the box."
"Zabbix technical support is sold separately."
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Datadog is ranked 2nd in Cloud Monitoring Software with 32 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Cloud Monitoring Software with 48 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.4, while Zabbix is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Provides insightful analytics and good visibility that assist with making architectural decisions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Very mature, easy to scale, and free to use". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic APM, Azure Monitor, Splunk and LogRhythm NextGen SIEM, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Nagios XI, Centreon, Nagios Core, Splunk and Spiceworks. See our Datadog vs. Zabbix report.
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