We performed a comparison between ControlUp and Datadog based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It has a great career time monitoring tool."
"It shows you so many details of what's going on in that log-on that, if there's a problem, you can identify it in five minutes."
"Security, uptime, and reduced capital expenditures are the main reasons we use ControlUp. So basically, the money that we consume is based on the amount of time we are using a service."
"ControlUp has an easy installation process."
"Integration with Netscaler and Scoutbees can provide a proper end-to-end analysis of the user's experience and give us a real ROI."
"The most valuable feature is the granularity of visibility into the resources that are in use by our applications."
"ControlUp is beneficial as it provides a web interface through which you can access all your infrastructure—servers, devices, and VDI infrastructure—all on the same platform. It supports gathering all infrastructure components in a single, unified dashboard. This helps you identify performance issues or high resource utilization, allowing quick troubleshooting. I appreciate the solid interface that ControlUp offers."
"The most valuable features in ControlUp are endpoint monitoring and the many features that are available."
"Straightforward to integrate and automate."
"The ability to send notifications based on metadata from the monitor is helpful."
"Datadog helps us detect issues early on and helps in troubleshooting."
"It is great that creating an incident is possible from Slack while having all the relevant data in Datadog."
"We have way more observability than what we had before - on the application and the overall system."
"The many dozens of integrations that the solution brings out of the box are excellent."
"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."
"I really enjoy the RUM monitoring features of Datadog. It allows us to monitor user behavior in a way we couldn't before."
"ControlUp could improve the integration. Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop monitoring has better integration."
"This solution be improved by including load throttling tools. For example, I can identify a service where we spend a lot of CPU but I cannot restrict the service from ControlUp. I have to use another tool like AppSense."
"The most common complaint that I have heard, at least within our organization, is about reporting. They have their own reporting. It's just that it doesn't yet include everything that you can look at within the application. You can only report on specific metrics or collections."
"Solve is a quick and intuitive tool for quickly mapping data together, however, once you have the view of the data that you like, it is difficult to share this with colleagues."
"There was some lag earlier, and reports pulled from the dashboard would sometimes be half an hour old. But now, the information provides real-time status, which is greatly appreciated. Overall, I've seen improvement in the product."
"Most reports give information about the top 100 devices, but not all of the devices."
"Something I would love to see from a partner perspective would be maybe a way to do this in a surface hosting provider."
"The graphical user interface needs to be improved from version to version."
"I found the documentation can sometimes be confusing."
"Once agents are connected to the Datadog portal, we should be able to upgrade them quickly."
"The more tools that they can build that allow you to run AWX playbooks, or other similar fixes, would benefit clients greatly."
"The FinOps needs improvement."
"I'm still exploring the trial version, and it is fine. One thing that I haven't been able to figure out is how to retrieve a report. This is something that could be improved. I probably need to navigate to a place to access the reports."
"Datadog could always lower the price!"
"It seems that admin cost control granularity is an afterthought."
"The logging could be improved in the future."
ControlUp is ranked 22nd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 11 reviews while Datadog is ranked 2nd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 137 reviews. ControlUp is rated 8.6, while Datadog is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of ControlUp writes "Great for troubleshooting and reporting with a controller that allows for configuration comparisons". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". ControlUp is most compared with Nexthink, Goliath Performance Monitor, Liquidware Stratusphere UX, eG Enterprise and Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring, whereas Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability. See our ControlUp vs. Datadog report.
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