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Score 8.4 out of 10

Based on 80 reviews and ratings

Score 7.7 out of 10

Based on 170 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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SQL and Exchange analytics. Looking into these heavy workloads helps resolve performance issues and allows administrators to properly adjust thresholds and CPU/Memory settings to maximize their Virtual platforms.
Detailed recommendations. Having the details around what adjustments are needing to be made to a virtual machine is paramount in getting business owners to agree to the change. Without it - IT is merely bogged down in the sand.

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Team Lead\Senior Systems Engineer

GEHAInsurance, 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 17 answers

This product has been a great addition to our tools. Moving forward, I can only see us purchasing additional licenses in order to expand the features we are able to use. In my opinion, the more end-to-end monitoring we have from the users to the backend infrastructure, the better we can ensure the environment is stable and will perform to the level that the business expects

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Rodney Barnhardt

Server Administrator

Charlotte Pipe and Foundry CompanyBuilding Materials, 1001-5000 employees

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Usability

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Turbonomic 9.7

Based on 16 answers

I have found the product to be very easy to work with and manage. Upgrades are performed through the web interface. This includes downloading the new file and applying the upgrade to the appliance. Overall, the interface and the various tabs are self explanatory. This was purchased as a replacement for vCenter Operations manager and it proven to have not only more functionality, but is easier to use and manage. The other advantage is that it works with multiple hypervisors as well as storage vendors making it a definite plus over other solutions when you have a heterogeneous environment

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Rodney Barnhardt

Server Administrator

Charlotte Pipe and Foundry CompanyBuilding Materials, 1001-5000 employees

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Reliability and Availability

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Turbonomic 10.0

Based on 3 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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Support Rating

Datadog 8.3

Based on 11 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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Turbonomic 9.3

Based on 20 answers

Just this week we had an issue where security permissions we had done wrong were causing problems in VMTurbo Operations Manager. Despite this being our fault the service request was handled very quickly. In addition we are routinely contacted proactively to see if there is anything we need or they could do for us.

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Sr. Engineer

Varian Medical SystemsMedical Devices, 5001-10,000 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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Implementation Rating

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Turbonomic 9.7

Based on 18 answers

There is value to be had in just doing a "click install" and then just evaluating and following recommendations. However, that is nowhere near the benefit you will get from the very powerful custom reporting if someone is willing to take the time to master this platform that can be somewhat demanding at that level.

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Sr. Engineer

Varian Medical SystemsMedical Devices, 5001-10,000 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 have used vCenter and vFoglight for management and also evaluated Solar Winds and Cloud Physics. Each of those systems had some pros and cons, but overall we found that VMTurbo had the things that we wanted and also things that we didn't even know were possible. We had been using the Foglight tool mostly, and in general, I could configure it to do many of the things that VMTurbo does, but it took quite a bit of time to do it. We don't want to have a person whose only job is to manage the software to manage our virtualization environment and who is the only one who even understands how the thing works. We just found that VMTurbo had the right combination of integration with VMware and visibility into the environment.

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Anthony Darling

Storage and Virtualization Administrator

O.C. TannerHuman Resources, 1001-5000 employees

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Scalability

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Turbonomic 10.0

Based on 3 answers

So far it has met or exceeded our expectations.

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Feather, Joshua

IT Manager

onTop Technology Corp.Information Technology and Services, 11-50 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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Reduced the need to expand our physical server footprint for the past 2 years.
Reduced our VMware support renewal due to a reduction in license use - spare hosts have been removed from the cluster.
VMs that suppliers had over spec'd are now correctly sized reducing host resource use and in some cases improving performance.

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Jonathan Murden

IT Operations Manager - Infrastructure

Portsmouth Hospitals NHS TrustHospital & Health Care, 5001-10,000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Datadog Editions & Modules

Edition

Free	¹
Standard	$15/host²
Enterprise	Custom³

Up to 5 hosts
Up to 500 hosts
500+ hosts

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Turbonomic Editions & Modules

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