Datadog vs Nagios Network Analyzer: Which is a better fit?

Sawan: Hi, I'm Sawan. I'm the Director of Information Security at a privacy business. I would give Datadog a rating five stars. Prior to using Datadog, I've had a lot of experience with different types of observability in monitoring solutions such as Splunk and built-in tools in cloud, such as Azure Sentinel and AWS Security Hub. I find Datadog very easy to use because it is compatible with all of these sources and easy to implement. They often join companies where they need to address gaps and improve their security posture very quickly. Datadog is easy to implement where there is a lack of skills within the organization and easy to scale, also with all of its integrations and very clear billing structure. Integration for Datadog is very easy because it has integrations out of the box from the minute you subscribe to the platform for all leading platforms, including secondary platforms as well. Its integrations are growing all the time. The integrations are quick to implement and done within minutes. The recommendations I have is that you aggregate to correlate and get good insights. When you connect all of these fast integrations into Datadog, you'll get a lot of information. A lot of information becomes noisy, so the key thing to do is to stop at those stages after integrations, and clarify what you want to see and cut out what you do not want to see, so therefore you can move at pace and have a very clean dashboard at the end.

Justin S.: Hi, I'm Justin, Dev Ops Engineer, and I give Nagios Network Analyzer four out of five stars. For more reviews like these, please click the link below. Before considering Nagios Network Analyzer, we looked to Libra NMS. Kind of along the same line of wanting to get a network monitoring product in place, we thought maybe it's better to go with something that's free. You can't go wrong with that, right? Well, what you don't pay in costs you pay in time and resource usage. We eventually found out that Libra NMS was not quite ideal for our use case. A little bit too much hands on. At the time, we picked Nagios Network Analyzer largely because we were still using Nagios XI for our monitoring uses. It was kind of a natural fit. They advertise the compatibility between the two platforms. If you've got Nagios XI for monitoring and you've got Nagios Network Analyzer for network monitoring, you could have the two work together and have some pretty cool integrations. Getting Nagios Network Analyzer up and running was relatively straightforward. It has a series of wizards that will walk you through the process of getting stuff like SNMP and APL switches operational. You also get a series of graphs that show what you're visualizing. Other than that, it's really just a simple matter of how you're going to handle authentication, handle updates and that sort of thing. All of which are relatively straightforward on any relatively modern Linux distribution. If you're thinking about Nagios Network Analyze, definitely take a look at the Nagios XI integration if you are using Nagios XI already. But I would say don't let that be the deciding factor. Ultimately for us, we moved away from Nagios XI and so the compatibility with it and cool features are still there, we're just not really using them anymore. Nagios XI I feel like is not the best fit for a modern IT environment. Their continued focus on the integrations there may get in the way of the core functionality at a certain point. Look at it on its own merits.