Datadog vs Turbonomic | TrustRadius

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Score 8.2 out of 10

Based on 116 reviews and ratings

Score 9.1 out of 10

Based on 179 reviews and ratings

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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Presentation is nice. Its easy to understand what your looking at and the data that is being presented to you.
Properly identify resource utilization and recommendations for action on how VMs can be improved and resources can be better utilized.
It was also able to tell us the same information and analysis for cloud resources. I was not expecting that.

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Lead System Engineer

Azusa Pacific UniversityHigher Education, 1001-5000 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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It would be nice if the UI included a break-down of features that are both licensed as well as un-licensed. That way, you could not only see what you have, but what you don't.
The right-sizing recommendations are great, but very little info is given about why the recommendation is being made. More info would not only increase understanding, but would also help drive decision-making.

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System Engineer

Nex-TechTelecommunications, 201-500 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

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Turbonomic 9.0

Based on 20 answers

We are certainly happy with Turbonomic as a whole and have invested quite a bit of time and effort into learning the ins and outs of the product. We have our reporting setup the way we want it and have gained definite value from these features. I will say though that many products nowadays are offering more native monitoring, reporting, and alerting features which may eventually steer us away from this product

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Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 51-200 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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Engineer in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 501-1000 employees

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Turbonomic 9.7

Based on 16 answers

Excellent approach to larger VM organizational management. They have an very clean integrated dashboard that allows us to see everything in our environment and what that is doing in real-time. It works on multiple hyper-visors really well and integrates capacity planning on my local site as well as my cloud locations.

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Director in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees

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Reliability and Availability

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Turbonomic 10.0

Based on 6 answers

VMTurbo has not caused any outages by not doing what we expect it to do.

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Feather, Joshua

IT Manager

onTop Technology Corp.Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Performance

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Turbonomic 9.0

Based on 6 answers

For the amount of data it is gathering the pages load in a reasonable amount of time.

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Sr. Systems Administrator

THE BON-TON STORES, INCHospital & Health Care, 201-500 employees

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Support Rating

Datadog 8.7

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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Professional in Information Technology

Human Resources Company, 51-200 employees

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Turbonomic 9.3

Based on 40 answers

When I contact support I get a quick response and they are able to solve my problem quickly. I also get a sense that they want to make sure that we are getting value from the product and walk me through whatever steps are needed to accomplish my goals.

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Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Logistics and Supply Chain Company, 1001-5000 employees

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In-Person Training

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Turbonomic 8.2

Based on 3 answers

Alex (from VMTurbo) has worked with the product for years and helped develop the product. He was very knowledgeable and was able to provide our support team with details knowledge on how to get our deployment configured correctly as well as help with another VMTurbo POC within another customers environment.

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Technical Architect

CGIInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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Online Training

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Turbonomic 10.0

Based on 3 answers

After buying VMTurbo Operations Manager, I was invited to an online user training event. I felt this training was effective and dug just deep enough to be informative yet still keep my attention. Additionally, the webinar was free.

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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 201-500 employees

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Implementation Rating

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Turbonomic 9.7

Based on 36 answers

The implementation was very simple. Just upload an OVA file and power on the VM. Once it comes up enter some networking information and you can then access the web interface. From there, just begin configuring the system for your environment by adding you license and the various virtual environments and storage through the inventory tab

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Rodney Barnhardt

Server Administrator

Charlotte Pipe and Foundry CompanyBuilding Materials, 1001-5000 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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We liked [Turbonomic] as it could work in the container space and the VM space. Other products were too one-dimensional. Additionally, the algorithm in [Turbonomic] is not typical. [Turbonomic] does not take the standard data elements and map them to consumption. Their use of a "financial" model seems to provide more accurate and meaningful decisions.

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Verified User

Strategist in Information Technology

Insurance Company, 10,001+ employees

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Scalability

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Turbonomic 10.0

Based on 3 answers

easy scalable, adding new clusters in, no big deal.

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Consultant - Messaging

HCL Technologies (Infrastructure Services Division)Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ 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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No negative impacts. The positive impacts it has had, is that we reduced our compute capex requirements by 150K. Merely using Turbonomic's for evaluating how much compute we would truly need during our refresh cycle helped drive our business decision to purchase Turbonomic.

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Team Lead\Senior Systems Engineer

GEHAInsurance, 1001-5000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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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

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Turbonomic Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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