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BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management vs Datadog comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 6, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management
Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software
47th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
5.3
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (36th)
Datadog
Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software
1st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
188
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (1st), Network Monitoring Software (3rd), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (2nd), Log Management (3rd), Container Monitoring (1st), AIOps (1st), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Cloud Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management is 0.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Datadog is 10.7%, down from 13.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

it_user790746 - PeerSpot reviewer
Automates Java EE Application Deployment from an SCM system
Total build time has been reduced from four weeks to one week, then later to 24 hours. * Threat remediation: Combine with SecOps to link vulnerabilities to identified patches and create a remediation plan. * Compliance: Integrates role-based access control with pre-configured policies for CIS, DISA, HIPAA, PCI, SOX, NIST, and SCAP documentation and remediation. * Provisioning: Supports unattended installs and image-based, script-based, or template-based provisioning. * Configuration: Consistently manage change and configuration activities across a broad range of server environments with one tool. * Reporting: Assesses change impact or completes an audit using multiple dashboard views. * Patching: Supports and follows Maintenance Window Guidelines to ensure timely delivery of patches.
Kevin Palmer - PeerSpot reviewer
Useful log aggregation and management with helpful metrics aggregation
Datadog provides us value in three major ways: First, Datadog provides best-in-class functionality in many, if not all, of the products to which we subscribe (infrastructure, APM, log management, serverless, synthetics, real user monitoring, DB monitoring). In my experience with other tools that provide similar functionality, Datadog provides the largest feature set with the most flexibility and the best performance. Second, Datadog allows us to access all of those services in one place. Having to learn and manage only one tool for all of those purposes is a major benefit. Third, Datadog provides significant connectivity between those services so that we can view, summarize, organize, translate and correlate our data with maximum effect. Not needing to manually integrate them to draw lines between those pieces of information is a huge time savings for us.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Assesses change impact or completes an audit using multiple dashboard views."
"CLM has a multi-cloud portal because they have the resources to implement in various environments in various ports."
"Integrates role-based access control with pre-configured policies for CIS, DISA, HIPAA, PCI, SOX, NIST, and SCAP documentation and remediation."
"You can tie together your public and private cloud infrastructure into a "single pane of glass"."
"Automates Java EE Application Deployment from an SCM system."
"Supports unattended installs and image-based, script-based, or template-based provisioning."
"By allowing end users to request their own services, the request process for systems is much quicker and more accurate."
"The dashboards are super convenient to us for a more zoomed out view of what is going on with each integration that we utilize."
"It has a high-level insight into the infrastructure model of the application and provides important detailed data on the host and metrics, which is the main concern of our customers."
"The solution has helped our organization with custom events to track specific cases."
"Its logs are most valuable."
"We can handle debugging and find out why things are breaking in our applications."
"APM and tracing are super useful."
"The performance of Datadog is good."
"The ease of dashboard creation and alarm monitoring has helped us not only stay competitive but be industry leaders in performance."
 

Cons

"The installation and configuration can be tricky due to it being built on Remedy."
"One of the major problems is that support is not so good."
"Needs integrations with other providers to provide a custom public cloud environment."
"It seems that admin cost control granularity is an afterthought."
"In terms of UI, everything is very small, which makes it quite difficult to navigate at times."
"The error traceability is an area that can be improved."
"Datadog could make their use cases more visible either through their docs or tutorial videos."
"One thing to improve would be making it easier to see common patterns across traces."
"In the past two years, there have been a couple of outages."
"We'd like to see more advanced incident management capabilities integrated directly into the platform."
"There should be a clearer view of the expenses."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"​Pricing seems reasonable. It depends on the size of your organization, the size of your infrastructure, and what portion of your overall business costs go toward infrastructure."
"The cost is high and this can be justified if the scale of the environment is big."
"I am not satisfied with its licensing. Its payment is based on the exported data, and there was an explosion of the data for three or four weeks. My customer was not alerted, and there was no way for them to see that there has been an explosion of data. They got a big invoice for one or two months. The pricing model of Datadog is based on the data. The customer was quite surprised about not being alerted about this explosion of data. They should provide some kind of alert when there is an increase in usage."
"Licensing is based on the retention period of logs and metrics."
"They prefer monthly subscriptions."
"It didn't scale well from the cost perspective. We had a custom package deal."
"If you do your homework, you'll find that if you're really concerned with cost, it's good."
"Our licensing fees are paid on a monthly basis."
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Top Industries

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Educational Organization
34%
Computer Software Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

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Sample Customers

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