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."
"The ability to send notifications based on metadata from the monitor is helpful."
"Datadog has so far been a breeze to use and set up."
"The most valuable features are the dashboards and the reporting."
"Integrating Datadog with other platforms has made our monitoring processes a bit easier. It's not super simple, but it's manageable."
"We have hundreds of microservices, and knowing how top-level requests weave throughout all of them is invaluable."
"The ingestion points are unlimited and support customization. We haven't had anything yet that we haven't been able to integrate with it."
"Datadog has made it much easier to have a central place for people to look for logs and made it much easier to notify them of any elevated error rates or failures."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the performance parameters of the system."
"Dashboard provides monitor of total assets."
"We mostly use Nagios Core to integrate with Python and Bash Script."
"It is fairly easy to set up, and we can monitor pretty much everything we want to."
"Nagios Core is very configurable. Whatever you want, you can do it."
"Key features include the GUI interface, its notification capabilities, and the real-time reporting."
"The application performance monitoring feature is valuable."
"The solution is quite efficient."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I've found that the documentation is lacking in certain regards."
"Stability of the product has been a concern for us outside of the primary monitoring agents."
"The way data is represented can be limiting. When I first tried it out a long time ago, you could graph a metric and another metric, and they'd overlay, but you couldn't take the ratio between the two."
"Datadog is so feature-rich that it is often hard to onboard new folks and tough to decide where to invest time."
"The sheer amount of products that are included can be overwhelming."
"Even though it is powerful on its own, the UI-based design lacks elegance, efficiency, and complexity."
"It can have an artificial intelligence component. Even though I can seamlessly look at end-to-end security, it would be better to have alerts and notifications powered by an AI engine. I am not sure if they have an AI component. We have not reached out to them or looked at it, but this is something that I keep on talking about within our company in terms of features. Such a feature would be good to have, and it would further optimize my Security Ops team's abilities."
"We primarily use the log management functionality, and the only feedback I have there is better fuzzy text searching in logs (the kind that Kibana has)."
"Nagios Core could improve by adding a user interface. If you want the user interface you have to use Nagios XI."
"The dashboard and monitoring features could be improved."
"The initial setup process could be easier."
"There is room for improvement in the graphics."
"Nagios Core is limited in terms of distributed setups, and there is no central view for remote data centers."
"I would like to see more training videos."
"Nagios Core can improve the graphical interface, it would make things a little easier."
"The mapping is a little hard."
Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 137 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 Elastic Observability, whereas Nagios Core is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios XI, Icinga, Centreon and OP5 Monitor. See our Datadog vs. Nagios Core report.
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