Datadog vs Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

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Director in Research & Development

Financial Services Company, 1-10 employees

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I suggest you try [Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)] at least once. Afterward, it
will make you feel relaxed. It really works and gives you more than your
expectations. It is equipped with multiple latest and advanced tools that will
fully satisfy you. So obviously there will be no need to concern other devices. It is
an excellent data management solution and also it is the best monitoring device than
any other.

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Delphine Jakab

Senior Business Controller

wehkampInternet, 1001-5000 employees

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Pros

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

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Anthony Zappala

ServiceNow Lead Engineer/Architect

WayfairInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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Measure the time and performance of queries made in a database
Integration with tools like Prometheus with the aim of storing information based on time
Monitor our databases in the cloud, as well as optimize the performance of the database, improving the usability of customer applications

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Jose Manuel Ortega

Software Engineer && Security researcher

UA - Universidad de Alicante / Universitat d'AlacantComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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Cons

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.

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Kevin Van Heusen

Software Architect

SpringAheadInternet, 51-200 employees

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Sometimes it creates problems while serving a huge number of servers but I am sure its efficient team will overcome this problem soon and with its rapid advancements there will surely be more latest and advanced alerting options.
Truly speaking this is a great invention with very few shortcomings. I never face any dependency issues.

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Delphine Jakab

Senior Business Controller

wehkampInternet, 1001-5000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

Starting Price

$0 Up to 5 hosts

Datadog Editions & Modules

On-premise Edition

Infrastructure	$15.00¹
Log Management	$1.27²
APM	$31.00³

Per Host Per Month
Per Million Log Events
Per Host Per Month

SaaS Edition

Free	$0¹
Standard	$15/host²
Enterprise	Custom³

Up to 5 hosts
Up to 500 hosts
500+ hosts

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

—

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Editions & Modules

—

Additional Pricing Details

Free and open-source

Usability

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.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 501-1000 employees

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Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 8.5

Based on 3 answers

I am using PMM for a long time now and the Dashboard provides a great overview for general server health and law. You get to watch if there are many queries when you get a problem. Time-based analysis for MySQL and MongoDB servers to confirm that your data works as efficiently as possible. We could improve database performance significantly.

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Rahul Maurya

AWS Educate core team member

AWS Educate Student Community IndiaComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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Support Rating

Datadog 8.8

Based on 10 answers

The support team usually gets it right. We did have a rather complicate issue setting up monitoring on a domain controller. However, they are usually responsive and helpful over chat. The downside would be I don’t think they have any phone support. If that is important to you this might not be a good fit.

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Verified User

Director in Information Technology

Consumer Goods Company, 51-200 employees

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Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 9.1

Based on 3 answers

Percona has a history of being good at providing really informative materials in form of blog post, documentation, webinars or conference presentations. T is also true to the Percona Monitoring and Management, you can find excellent source of information on their site or on the forum. Support tickets are also handled well.

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Miklos Szel

Senior Database Architect

EdmodoEducation Management, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We are still trying other products, but people still like Datadog. After setting up a dashboard, it's great for monitoring instances on Datadog. Also, the DevOps team had a good time setting up Datadog. It means Datadog was way easier to set up compared to those others.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Vividcortex is nice but is costly.

Datadog loses for me on the UI front and, of course, it will be a charged product.

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) has been best blend of technologies and is supported by the Percona community very well.

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Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Return on Investment

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

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Rajeshh Raghavan

Systems Analyst, Engineering

Dreamworks AnimationEntertainment, 1001-5000 employees

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This is a matchless tool for keeping us alert with all amazing monitoring capabilities. Almost all of its features and functionalities help us in achieving our goals by enhancing success rates.
Customer support is responsible.
Its performance is mind-blowing.

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Delphine Jakab

Senior Business Controller

wehkampInternet, 1001-5000 employees

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Datadog vs Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)

Datadog

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)

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Likelihood to Recommend

Datadog

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)

Usability

Datadog

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)

Support Rating

Datadog

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)

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Cons

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

Datadog Editions & Modules

On-premise Edition

SaaS Edition

Additional Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Editions & Modules

Additional Pricing Details

Usability

Support Rating

Alternatives Considered

Return on Investment

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