What users are saying about

Datadog vs Nagios XI

Datadog
102 Ratings
Nagios XI
19 Ratings

Datadog

102 Ratings
<a href='https://www.trustradius.com/static/about-trustradius-scoring' target='_blank' rel='nofollow noopener noreferrer'>trScore algorithm: Learn more.</a>
Score 8.1 out of 100

Based on 102 reviews and ratings

Nagios XI

19 Ratings
<a href='https://www.trustradius.com/static/about-trustradius-scoring' target='_blank' rel='nofollow noopener noreferrer'>trScore algorithm: Learn more.</a>
Score 6.9 out of 100

Based on 19 reviews and ratings

Likelihood to Recommend

Datadog

Datadog is a no-brainer for any environment that relies on multiple servers. Even for one server, it's so much better to use for monitoring and alert capability than anything else I remember looking at before we started using Datadog. Teams can even use it to track their progress of investigating an alert so multiple people aren't unknowingly looking into the same exact issue unnecessarily.

Read full review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Verified User
View all 21 answers on this topic

Nagios XI

Nagios is best suited in an large organization where it is production 24/7, but in SME (small/medium enterprise) you have to pay a lot to the administrator. Instead use some graphical and easy to use tool like IDERA.

Read full review

Muhammad Hassan Khan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Muhammad Hassan Khan
View all 3 answers on this topic

Pros

Datadog

  • APIs, the ability to interact with the data we pull into data dog is key. We port the information over to Servicenow, so the ability to pull everything into DataDog, then Servicenow, is a key component of our success here at Wayfair.
  • Simple Interface - clean, useful, effective. Allows users to use DataDog for one reason, get work done.
  • Lightweight agent on hosts

Read full review

Anthony Zappala | TrustRadius Reviewer
Anthony Zappala
View all 21 answers on this topic

Nagios XI

  • 3rd party integrations via open API.
  • Extremely flexible and configurable long term storage of the very detailed performance information (years of per 1-5 min perf data numbers).
  • Small Nagios XI footprint (very efficient MySQL DB and flat files for perf data), making it powerful tool for thousands of checks and hundreds of reports.
  • Responsive support, willing to provide resolution outside the box and by various means possible.

Read full review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Verified User
View all 3 answers on this topic

Cons

Datadog

  • User interface could be improved in some areas, looking for host information and the agent install link takes a bit of time.
  • Configuration of the agent is generally done via a config file which is a pro and a con. It would be nice to have some UI to configure various agent options.
  • Billing isn't entirely straightforward, they could use more reports to figure out the source of your monthly costs.

Read full review

Kevin Van Heusen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Kevin Van Heusen
View all 21 answers on this topic

Nagios XI

  • The mobile interface is newly developed and needs more development. It should provide more options for the audit log and add more detail for the configuration rollback options.
  • The scheduled report should be included in standard edition.
  • Master Node is configurable on LINUX platform only. We had to hire a Linux administrator

Read full review

Eduin Zuloaga | TrustRadius Reviewer
Eduin Zuloaga
View all 3 answers on this topic

Usability

Datadog

Datadog 10.0
Based on 1 answer
The user interface is quite intuitive with the exception of the network map. As a deployer of software, it is trivial to setup.

Read full review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Verified User
View all 1 answers on this topic

Nagios XI

No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic

Support Rating

Datadog

Datadog 8.4
Based on 12 answers
Our experience working with their support found them to be helpful and quick to respond. Also, as many of their integrations are open source, improvements we desired could be tracked and even driven by us. Their documentation is excellent and makes integrating their tooling simple and makes standing up monitoring for new application a quick and painless process.

Read full review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Verified User
View all 12 answers on this topic

Nagios XI

Nagios XI 9.0
Based on 2 answers
Only because I never give out 10s.Nagios support goes above and beyond in helping with issues, workarounds, specific cases and requirements. Tracks customer implementation and history of the most important issues. Can’t complain (except that the team is small and quite probably overworked). Time to resolution could be much improved if only there were more folks to help around.

Read full review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Verified User
View all 2 answers on this topic

Alternatives Considered

Datadog

New Relic APM is a great application performance monitoring tool, but the agent was producing an increased load on our system compared to Datadog. Datadog also gives the flexibility of going outside of the boundaries of the application and looking at system performance as well, which can have a large impact on application performance.

Read full review

Stephen Groat | TrustRadius Reviewer
Stephen Groat
View all 21 answers on this topic

Nagios XI

Cost efficiency is the main reason which we opted [for] Nagios as we were previously using IDERA tool with comprehensive database monitoring solutions, but the slow performance we are getting while monitoring the instance of the database.

Read full review

Muhammad Hassan Khan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Muhammad Hassan Khan
View all 3 answers on this topic

Return on Investment

Datadog

  • One of our critical production databases went down a couple of weeks back. Just because we had the Datadog monitoring enabled for that database, Datadog sent the alerts to PagerDuty and we were instantly notified via pager and email alert. We could act right away and bring up the database within a few mins.
  • Ability to create custom screenboards have allowed us to track the critical and warning alerts in front of our eyes all the time

Read full review

Rajeshh Raghavan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Rajeshh Raghavan
View all 21 answers on this topic

Nagios XI

  • Reduction of at least 10% of false alarms.
  • Increased network traffic by 5%.

Read full review

Eduin Zuloaga | TrustRadius Reviewer
Eduin Zuloaga
View all 3 answers on this topic

Screenshots

Nagios XI

—

Pricing Details

Datadog

General

Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—
Entry-level set up fee?
Optional

Datadog Editions & Modules

On-premise Edition
Infrastructure$15.001
Log Management$1.272
APM$31.003
  1. Per Host Per Month
  2. Per Million Log Events
  3. Per Host Per Month
SaaS Edition
Free$01
Standard$15/host2
EnterpriseCustom3
  1. Up to 5 hosts
  2. Up to 500 hosts
  3. 500+ hosts
Additional Pricing Details
—

Nagios XI

General

Free Trial
—
Free/Freemium Version
—
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—
Entry-level set up fee?
No

Nagios XI Editions & Modules

Edition
Standard$19951
Enterprise$34951
  1. Per Instance
Additional Pricing Details
—

Add comparison