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Datadog vs Nutanix Prism comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
7.1
Datadog enhances efficiency, reduces downtime, and improves ROI by tracking instances, visualizing trends, and resolving performance issues.
Sentiment score
8.5
Nutanix Prism reduces manpower and maintenance expenses, enhancing profitability and efficiency with improved management and streamlined processes.
Initially, the CapEx was higher than VMware's, but considering the operational cost over time, it has been beneficial.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.3
Datadog's customer service is proactive and knowledgeable, but technical support quality varies with occasional delays and inconsistencies.
Sentiment score
8.6
Nutanix Prism support is praised for quick, knowledgeable service, often resolving issues same-day, despite minor improvement suggestions.
They respond within five minutes and provide excellent assistance.
Nutanix support is excellent, and their response time is extremely fast.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.6
Datadog efficiently scales with infrastructure demands, offering seamless integration and reliability, though cost management is essential.
Sentiment score
8.0
Nutanix Prism offers scalable, flexible expansion for organizations, though some face limitations requiring added nodes for resource capacity.
I rate the scalability as ten out of ten.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.0
Datadog is praised for its reliable stability, minimal disruptions, quick issue resolution, and efficient large-scale data handling.
Sentiment score
8.3
Nutanix Prism is reliable and user-friendly, offering strong performance with minimal issues and quick resolutions to minor bugs.
The entire Nutanix solution is stable.
Even after applying the upgrade, we had to patch again as there was a problem with Prism.
 

Room For Improvement

Datadog users desire performance improvements, consistent APIs, clearer pricing, better support, enhanced features, and more user-friendly documentation and interface.
Nutanix Prism needs a more intuitive interface, better pricing, integration, documentation, and improved lifecycle and license management.
The documentation is adequate, but team members coming into a project could benefit from more guided, interactive tutorials, ideally leveraging real-world data.
There should be a clearer view of the expenses.
The presales and marketing team should inform clients about resource requirements, such as RAM used by CVM, to help manage expectations.
Currently, if I want to use NKP Ultimate or Pro features, I must pay separately, and the process is not easy, especially in Africa.
 

Setup Cost

Datadog offers flexible, usage-based enterprise pricing, focusing on host count and log ingestion, requiring careful management to control costs.
Nutanix Prism is considered pricey but justified by features, ease of use, and potential discounts on larger purchases.
The setup cost for Datadog is more than $100.
The cost is high, and the license payment is not easy in Africa due to numerous intermediaries between users and solution providers.
At first, the cost seemed heavy, but over time, its cost-effectiveness became evident.
 

Valuable Features

Datadog excels with integration, customizable dashboards, and monitoring, offering streamlined setup, centralized data, and enhanced user insights.
Nutanix Prism offers centralized management, seamless integration, intuitive interfaces, with scalable performance and easy upgrades for virtual environments.
Our architecture is written in several languages, and one area where Datadog particularly shines is in providing first-class support for a multitude of programming languages.
The technology itself is generally very useful.
It simplifies firmware and software updates, making it hassle-free for IT engineers.
One of the most useful features is the disaster recovery setup, which includes two clusters, one for our production server and another for our recovery site.
 

Categories and Ranking

Datadog
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 (2nd), Cloud Monitoring Software (1st), AIOps (1st), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (8th)
Nutanix Prism
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
62
Ranking in other categories
Virtualization Management Tools (5th), Data Center Infrastructure Management (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

Datadog and Nutanix Prism aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Datadog is designed for Cloud Monitoring Software and holds a mindshare of 11.3%, down 13.4% compared to last year.
Nutanix Prism, on the other hand, focuses on Virtualization Management Tools, holds 15.2% mindshare, up 10.5% since last year.
Cloud Monitoring Software
Virtualization Management Tools
 

Featured Reviews

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.
Arpan Rakshit - PeerSpot reviewer
Reduced our administration and rack space significantly, with everything in one box
Nutanix is a great product, but I won't say it is a data center product. If it could leverage or work with non-Nutanix infrastructure, it would be a total data center solution. Right now, with Prism Central, we can only manage Nutanix clusters. If we were able to manage the whole data center from the single pane of glass, it would be more helpful. I think that would help all customers. Also, Nutanix Flow for microsegmentation is limited right now to AHV clusters, meaning only Nutanix clusters. If it could integrate with all my infrastructure, I would have a pane of glass where I could manage my whole data center, including microsegmentation. They really need to extend its features beyond the Nutanix infrastructure. That is the one thing I would really like to see improvement on.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
39%
Computer Software Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
5%
Computer Software Company
26%
Government
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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Which would you choose - Datadog or Dynatrace?
Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether the Datadog or Dynatrace network monitoring software was the better fit for us. We decided to go with Dynatrace. Dynatrace offers network ...
What do you like most about Nutanix Prism?
Nutanix Prism offers web scaling, which facilitates easy scaling.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nutanix Prism?
The pricing is reasonable, approximately $400 to $500 per core.
What needs improvement with Nutanix Prism?
There is a need for more migration tools, especially for migrating a solution from non-Nutanix environments to a Nutanix environment, particularly for systems with shared disks.
 

Comparisons

 

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Sample Customers

Adobe, Samsung, facebook, HP Cloud Services, Electronic Arts, salesforce, Stanford University, CiTRIX, Chef, zendesk, Hearst Magazines, Spotify, mercardo libre, Slashdot, Ziff Davis, PBS, MLS, The Motley Fool, Politico, Barneby's
JetBlue, International Speedway Corporation, SAIC Volkswagen
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