Datadog vs SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor | TrustRadius

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Score 8.1 out of 10

Based on 101 reviews and ratings

Score 8 out of 10

Based on 558 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

Datadog

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

Application monitoring

Database monitoring

Threshold alerts

Predictive capabilities

Application performance management console

Collaboration tools

Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications

Application dependency mapping and thresholding

Virtualization monitoring

Server availability and performance monitoring

Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting

IT Asset Discovery

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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Identify and monitor critical services on an IBMi platform.
Identify and monitor critical services on a Windows Server Platform.
Set thresholds to provide notifications where necessary to address serious issues before it hampers the operation.
Provide usage reports and other data that can be useful for forming IT Strategy.

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Verified User

Professional in Information Technology

Investment Banking Company, 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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The new node based licensing model makes it difficult to justify the price for nodes that only utilize a few components.
Script results need to be a statistic. It would be a lot more useful if we could populate a table of results, including alpha-numeric strings, boolean, etc.
A lot of the AppInsight components cannot be disabled. You have to either use the whole template or nothing.

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Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

No score

No answers yet

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SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor 8.3

Based on 11 answers

I love the product and the alerts are within the millisecond, which can be the difference between life and death in some cases. As a beginner user, it was difficult getting around or add new hosts to monitor. However, after reading guides an familiarizing myself with the product, I realized how powerful and extremely useful this product. The reason I don't give a 10 is the learning curve.

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Administrator in Information Technology

Government Administration Company, 1001-5000 employees

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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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SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor 8.7

Based on 30 answers

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is quite easy to use and super versatile. It allows you to do just about anything you can through premade templates or through scripting. You can use an agent on the servers if you want to, or you can monitor through WMI or SNMP credentials. You can customize thresholds for alerting quickly, and you can configure alerts to be as complex or as simple as you want.

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IT Analyst

Regions BankBanking, 5001-10,000 employees

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Reliability and Availability

No score

No answers yet

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SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor 4.6

Based on 2 answers

I only use dpa

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Programmer Analyst

USDHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees

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Performance

No score

No answers yet

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SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor 4.6

Based on 2 answers

Takes time to load

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Law Practice Company, 201-500 employees

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Support Rating

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.

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Verified User

Professional in Information Technology

Human Resources Company, 51-200 employees

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SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor 8.0

Based on 20 answers

I think there was only a couple times I had to open a support case for SAM and one time they got multiple engineers on the phone to get a better idea what I was trying to monitor and was able to point me in the best direction to monitor that system.

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Ryhlen Schoeberl

System Administrator

Vast BroadbandTelecommunications, 201-500 employees

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Online Training

No score

No answers yet

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SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor 4.5

Based on 1 answer

It was sufficient to read their documentation and watch videos.

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Programmer Analyst

USDHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees

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Implementation Rating

No score

No answers yet

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SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor 4.6

Based on 3 answers

Make sure SNMP and WMI are configured ahead of time

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Law Practice Company, 201-500 employees

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Alternatives Considered

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.

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Senior Security Engineer

TealiumMarketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees

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I have tried and researched many products including Cacti, Zabbix, Dynatrace, as far as I have read the best crafted product among them is SolarWinds. [Already], SolarWinds company is the most successful company that has proven itself in issues such as monitoring and logging.

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Verified User

Professional in Information Technology

Retail Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Scalability

No score

No answers yet

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SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor 4.6

Based on 2 answers

It is hard to find the recommended SQL setup and convince others that is the way you should configure the server when you set it up

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Programmer Analyst

USDHigher Education, 1001-5000 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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SolarWinds has helped to improve proactive resolution or mitigation of application issues. This has often resulted in issues fixed before customers were aware of the problem.
SolarWinds has provided valuable information when troubleshooting issues to meet Service Level Agreements.
SolarWinds has helped get the correct team working on issues.

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Verified User

Employee in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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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

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

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Editions & Modules

—

Additional Pricing Details

SAM pricing starts at $2,995.

Rating Summary

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