Cisco Intersight vs. Datadog

Cisco Intersight

Datadog

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cisco Intersight	Score 9.2 out of 10	N/A	Cisco Intersight is an operations platform that helps IT operations teams control and automate Cisco UCS, converged, and hyperconverged infrastructure. Intersight consolidates and automates infrastructure lifecycle management from data centers to the edge in one solution delivered as-a-service.	N/A
Datadog	Score 8.4 out of 10	N/A	Datadog is a monitoring service for IT, Dev and Ops teams who write and run applications at scale, and want to turn the massive amounts of data produced by their apps, tools and services into actionable insight.	$1.27 per month (billed annually) per host

Pricing

Cisco Intersight

Datadog

Editions & Modules

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Log Management: $1.27
per month (billed annually) per host
Infrastructure: $15.00
per month (billed annually) per host
Standard: $18
per month per host
Enterprise: $27
per month per host
DevSecOps Pro: $27
per month per host
APM: $31.00
per month (billed annually) per host
DevSecOps Enterprise: $41
per month per host

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Cisco Intersight	Datadog
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Optional

Additional Details

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Discount available for annual pricing. Multi-Year/Volume discounts available (500+ hosts/mo).

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Community Pulse
	Cisco Intersight	Datadog
Considered Both Products	Cisco Intersight Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Intersight Much more advanced management tool. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Intersight They actually work together pretty well Incentivized Helpful? GD Ganesh Doddi Infrastructure Designer Chose Cisco Intersight To manage multiple environments, each of the environments has to be specifically accessed, whereas Cisco Intersight reduces the complexity and provides a single pane. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Intersight Easier interface Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Intersight Our organisation has some experience with Dell OME (the centralised management plane for Dell PowerEdge server, equivalent to Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service and UCS Manager, but not enough to contrast the two or say why one is better than the other. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Intersight The simple reason is we use Cisco Data center products and there is no other products that can offer these features for Cisco products other than Cisco Intersight. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Intersight I personally think that Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service is at the top of its class when it comes to managing data center hardware. The cloud-connected design feels very modern and easy to use. The mobile app is something I wouldn't expect to get in a server management … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Intersight It has strong integration with cisco Solutions. Using cisco intersight you have fully managable environment. It is must have for cisco infratructure. For cisco usc serwera it is best choise becouse of deep integration and really great functionality. You can do things faster, … Incentivized Helpful? Wijitha (Vijita) Samantha Ranawaka Senior Network Engineer Chose Cisco Intersight Since Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service is cloud-delivered, there is a great deal of flexibility found in this platform, including the ability to manage infrastructure from anywhere at any time. Cisco is also able to continually upgrade, modify, and enhance this platform, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Intersight I really dont have a true comparison as we have just started down the path of managing our datacenters with Intersight vs UCSM. I can see where Intersight has a better/easier UI in terms of the workflow to create polices/templates ect. Incentivized Helpful? NB Nathan Bullock IT Operations Manager Chose Cisco Intersight When we compared it to our existing solution for managing our compute platforms we needed multiple tools to accomplish what we were able to accomplish with Cisco Intersight. We needed a tool just to manage our chassis/blade infrastructure, another to manager our SANs and then … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Intersight We compared this to the Dell offering of something similar and it was no contest. With Dell all the firmware, package management, updates, etc are all managed with separate products. You're tasked with building you own repositories of software, drivers, and firmware and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Intersight Intersight can be used to monitor and not make changes, which is great because we want manual updates at times, not automatic updates. Incentivized Helpful? Daniel Aramayo Ingeniero de Soporte e Implementacion Chose Cisco Intersight I think that intersight is a more mature product, with little to no installation overhead. Its interface is easier to use. Also features workload optimization and vulnerability advisories that are not present in cloud forms. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Intersight Best in the market. Incentivized Helpful? BB Benjamin Bubbers Systems Engineer Chose Cisco Intersight I do not know any other software that is bringing the same abilities as Cisco Intersight if you have a Cisco-orientated Datacenter as we do. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Intersight While it has the downside of being limited to just Cisco equipment, it does that VERY well and the free tier version is good enough for most cases. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Intersight Intersight does not require any on-prem infrastructure deployment. No need to worry about patching or updates to any appliances or software. Other solutions must constantly be deployed and maintained by IT staff. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Intersight We use the Dell OpenManage product previously when we were using Dell servers. Cisco Intersight has much more capabilities than Dell OpenManage had in the past. I haven't used any other product lately which would allow me to compare the features. We use What's up gold for … Incentivized Helpful? Wouter Hindriks Technical Team Lead Network & Security Chose Cisco Intersight There's no other product that integrates this closely with Cisco hardware. Incentivized Helpful? Joacim Wicander Senior Data Center Engineer Chose Cisco Intersight I don't know of any product that is competing with Cisco Intersight, so I haven't been able to do a comparison. Incentivized Helpful? MK Mitch Kumar (CCIE-DC) Sr Solutions Architect Chose Cisco Intersight very well... will need to take extra time to add my specifics Incentivized Helpful?	Datadog Verified User Anonymous Chose Datadog In terms of usability, I’ve found Datadog significantly more approachable and powerful compared to Elasticsearch, especially for day-to-day operational monitoring. Datadog offers a much more cohesive, user-friendly interface out of the box, with built-in support for metrics, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Datadog Kibana and New Relic Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Datadog Datadog is an all in one solution. It has everything in one place so you don't have to go from application to application and try to figure out what exactly happened. No more stitching database errors from one third party to backend errors in another to front end errors in … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Datadog the search query is very easy to search the logs Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Datadog Datadog crushed the competition on price and offering more solutions in one product cutting down on implementation time and effort while ensuring that the "integration" between one of their offerings was completely compatible with any of the others. I'm sure it's not the case … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Datadog We've completely replaced New Relic with Datadog and find it easier to use and more comprehensive. Our AWS and Sentry usage will continue for now. But Datadog gives us a much broader coverage - we can monitor our AWS services and many other services that interact with them. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Datadog Dynatrace was cheaper but, in my opinion, its setup, features, and overall user experience do not come close to what Datadog can offer, making it more of a pain to use and not worth the cheaper cost over Datadog (especially if migrating away from Datadog to dynatrace). … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Datadog Better performance and visibility than what I was able to obtain out of AppDynamics Their OnCall offering is very fresh still, but is already almost at parity with Splunk On Call (VictorOps) Incentivized Helpful? Anuj Rai Performance Engineer Chose Datadog The first reason for selecting Datadog was of course it's pricing which is quite better in terms of competitor like Appdynamics and splunk. Second thing is versatile services which they are offering on one platform which means entire end to end services can be monitor at one … Incentivized Helpful? Aman Makwana DevOps Engineer Chose Datadog It's a one-stop solution for all our needs whereas in other open-source tools, we have an operational overhead to keep and manage the uptime of these tools as well and also manage their versioning, upgrade, and patching cycle. Also if there are any bugs then we have to raise an … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Datadog One of the most important reason is single agent configuration for all kinds of monitoring. It also proved an auto upgrade feature of agents that reduces the overhead. It also provides range of options when it comes to data visualization and dashboards. It also provide tagging … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Datadog Kubernetes with Prometheus and other open-source options. It is prone to more toil to set up but the stack can be largely replicated in open source technologies. Incentivized Helpful? RR Rajeshh Raghavan Systems Analyst, Engineering Chose Datadog OEM and Vertica Management console are limited to their own databases whereas Datadog has the ability to monitor multiple types of databases. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Datadog New Relic was a good tool but had really pushy salespeople. They also released a product called infrastructure recently, and it was worse than their previous product (servers). The previous product was also free! Needless to say, we will not be going back to New Relic any time … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Datadog Easier to set up and integrate with other auxiliary tools. The cost was also a benefit along with self-service capabilities. We could set up Data Dog by ourselves, versus needing to bring additional consulting efforts to setup Dynatrace. Reliability of results (less false … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Datadog Ultimately, Datadog had the most already-built bridges into our existing infrastructure -- third parties that we're using for certain services are far more likely to work with Datadog than other systems. This means that, while expensive, Datadog has done a tremendous amount of … Incentivized Helpful? Gabriel Samaroo Senior Software Engineer Chose Datadog Datadog has been harder to setup out-of-the-box compared to its alternatives, although it's graphs and dashboards have been more useful. Other tools handle individual tasks better. For example, Splunk has been the best logging tool I've used, and New Relic is great for CPU and … Incentivized Helpful? Anthony Zappala ServiceNow Lead Engineer/Architect Chose Datadog No alternatives were considered for our needs. Incentivized Helpful? Rahul Narula Senior Engineer Chose Datadog It has been easier to work with Datadog for all our business needs and get things on their roadmap if we found it lacking. Currently we use a mix of various tools as they were existing prior to Datadog came. We are evaluating new offering like Datadog's latest log management to … Incentivized Helpful? Girivaru Tarun Customer Success Manager Chose Datadog I am listing how Datadog is better than below chosen NotSensu - Datadog has more integrations and easy to use UI. Prometheus - Datadog Integration are more in number than, simple installation process Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Datadog 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. Incentivized Helpful? Mariano Koldobsky Project Leader Chose Datadog I have only used Datadog Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Datadog The pricing, the customer service and it most importantly it does the job we expect. Incentivized Helpful? Kevin Van Heusen Software Architect Chose Datadog Geckoboard has nice dashboard options, however their third party system support isn't as strong as Datadog. Geckoboard did not support all the various server and development systems we use, whereas Datadog did. Also, Datadog has better alerting and monitoring options than … Incentivized Helpful? Deepshikha Gandhi DevOps Engineer Chose Datadog Datadog empowers us to create dashboards and visualize the state of our infrastructure in real time. It gives us control over what we want to view and how. The graphs provide deep insight into trends and anamoly detectives. These features are lacking in some of the other … Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	Cisco Intersight	Datadog
Likelihood to Recommend	9.1 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	8.2 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.8 (0 ratings)	8.9 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Cisco Intersight	Datadog
Likelihood to Recommend	Cisco Intersight is very well suited for doing firmware upgrades across all of your cisco hardware. So far we have had no problems pushing out new firmware. It's also well suited for hardware management. Cisco TAC has the ability to pull logs for the IMC for themselves, which saves you from having to pull the logs yourself and then uploading them to the case. It may or may not be appropriate for upgrading operating systems. I have not been able to test it. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	A one-stop solution for everything you need. Multiple functionalities are tailored to meet specific business needs. Logs are essential for any business, and Datadog manages logs effectively. Rum sessions are something new to me and have given us a new perspective on how to reverse engineer issues that we see for our customers. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Standardising the environment by enforcing use of updating templates. Show the difference on a profile between what has changed and what setting was last deployed. Perform bulk deploy operation on profiles (like server profiles). Policies underpin all settings (e.g. no more defining individual VLANs before being able to use them, or having to clean them up manually when they are no longer in use. You deploy a Domain VLAN policy that states which VLANs are configured on a domain (either standalone) or a domain profile template (if domains profiles are bound to an updating domain profile template). Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Create Dashboards as per application, environments, and Custom metrics in one panel. Log aggregation, one-stop Application monitoring tools for the whole infrastructure. Playbooks, SLA definition, success and error quotas, request visualizations. DB monitoring, Serverless stack monitoring. Alerting of Production incidents so we can quickly resolve the issues on time. Incentivized Aman Makwana DevOps Engineer Read full review
Cons	It is difficult to spot an added or removed VLAN in an Ethernet Network Group Policy or VLAN Policy. The comparison widget will show you that something has changed, but if you have 100s of VLANs, the difference does not stand out. Workaround: we copy the data out and compare it in a text editor. If you are transitioning from UMM to IMM, you lose some functionality like vNIC redundancy pairs. It is not easy to map the UMM version 4.x server firmware version to the equivalent IMM version 5.x firmware version. It is not possible to configure out-of-band management IP addresses on a per-domain basis. You have to configure these ranges via an IMC Access policy (which contains the IP address range/pool) on the server profile. This leads to "server profile template sprawl" where we have to maintain multiple server profile templates since our domains sit on different ranges, even though the servers are for the most part configured identically. UCS domains in IMM only support one Ethernet Network Group Policy (VLAN group) per vNIC template. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Alert windows cause lag in notifications (e.g. if the alert window is X errors in 1 hour, we won't get alerted until the end of the 1 hour range) I would appreciate more supportive examples for how to filter and view metrics in the explorer I would like a more clear interface for metrics that are missing in a time frame, rather than only showing tags/etc. for metrics that were collected within the currently viewed time frame Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Been using Cisco Software as a service (SaaS) platform in a production environment for a large medical and health professionals that has critical healthcare and patients care dependency. Support team is very helpful getting system updated as needed, and vendor support is fantastic. Also get a dedicated Cisco networking engine to review and advise system health and recommendations. Incentivized Mitch Kumar (CCIE-DC) Sr Solutions Architect Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	Usability of Cisco Intersight is highly dependent on the licensing purchased. The default (free) license level provides a lot of value for the minimal amount of effort to implement. The paid license levels provide additional features (detailed inventory, configuration management and deployment, etc.) Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Datadog's user interface is quite friendly and easy to navigate. With menus clearly categorized, and ability to bookmark important dashboards, one can easily find what they're looking for. For dashboards, ability to move and resize visualizations and group them, is really helpful to organize dashboards. Automatic suggestions from Datadog for important visualizations based on the metrics and logs would provide another level of ease of use. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	If you have bigger problems with the on-prem version, the support team is sometimes a bit slow in their reactions and you have to keep going, to get your help. But finally, all problems, that we have addressed, have been resolved to my full appreciation! BB Benjamin Bubbers Systems Engineer Read full review	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Online Training	You really need a lab to get hands on but it was useful Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating	Very smooth process and we did it for 2 data centers Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Our organisation has some experience with Dell OME (the centralised management plane for Dell PowerEdge server, equivalent to Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service and UCS Manager, but not enough to contrast the two or say why one is better than the other. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	I selected Datadog because of its features and the wide range of integration support. As I already told it supports more that 600+ integrations which helps and organization to keep everything in a single place and also its AI feature which is reducing the time for root cause analysis. Its custom dashboards features which helps us to visualize the data in a more attractive way. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	The negative thing is that we prefer to use the UCS Manager in our company because this bare metal is integrated into the FI and no extra appliance is required. SaaS is generally not viewed favorably in Germany. Telling the user that they have to buy Intersight licenses even if they use UCS Manager annoys our customers. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Saved us (time & money) from developing our own monitoring utilities that would pale in comparison Alerts allow us to remedy issues before our customers even know about them Tracking resource usage over time allows us to better plan for future needs, before it becomes a pain-point. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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