Compare Datadog and Nagios XI 
At a Glance
Market Segments
Mid-Market (47.2% of reviews)
Mid-Market (66.7% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
$0 Per host, per month
No pricing available
Datadog
Star Rating
(697)4.4 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (47.2% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
$0 Per host, per month
Free Trial is available
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Star Rating
(58)4.5 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (66.7% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
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AI Generated Summary
AI-generated. Powered by real user reviews.
- G2 reviewers report that Datadog excels in user experience, particularly with its intuitive interface and seamless integration capabilities. Users appreciate how easy it is to set up agents and get started, with one reviewer noting, "Setting up Datadog agents was also very easy."
- Users say that Nagios XI offers a straightforward implementation process, making it a solid choice for those looking for a cost-effective monitoring solution. Reviewers highlight its flexibility in monitoring various infrastructure components, stating, "Nagios XI is straightforward to implement and use."
- According to verified reviews, Datadog stands out for its comprehensive observability features, allowing users to correlate data from infrastructure, applications, logs, and security signals. This capability helps teams quickly move from detection to action, enhancing operational efficiency.
- Reviewers mention that while Nagios XI provides robust customization options and proactive monitoring, it may not match the depth of analytics offered by Datadog. Users have noted the importance of detailed reporting, with one stating, "It has a lot of customization options and proactive monitoring which have significantly improved our infrastructure."
- G2 reviewers highlight that Datadog's performance monitoring capabilities are highly rated, with users enjoying features like real-time analytics and alerting. One user remarked on the detailed log traces, saying, "I really like how detailed the log traces can be in Datadog."
- Users report that while Nagios XI has a slightly higher star rating, Datadog's overall satisfaction scores are significantly better, indicating a more favorable user experience overall. This is reflected in the higher volume of recent reviews for Datadog, suggesting it is currently more aligned with user needs.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
Datadog
Free
$0
Per host, per month
Core collection and visualization features
- Discussion Group Supported
- 1-Day Metric Retention
- Up to 5 Hosts
Nagios XI
No pricing availableFree Trial
Datadog
Free Trial is available
Nagios XI
Free Trial is available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
8.8
518
9.4
47
Ease of Use
8.2
619
8.9
46
Ease of Setup
8.3
385
7.0
14
Ease of Admin
8.3
233
7.5
10
Quality of Support
8.3
460
8.8
46
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
8.5
219
8.2
10
Product Direction (% positive)
9.0
502
9.2
46
Features by Category
Operations
7.8
6
Not enough data
8.1
6
Not enough data
7.1
8
Not enough data
8.0
5
Not enough data
Cost Optimization
7.7
8
Not enough data
7.5
6
Not enough data
7.7
5
Not enough data
Administration
8.3
6
Not enough data
8.1
7
Not enough data
7.3
5
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Cloud Cost Management
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Functionality
8.7
56
Not enough data
9.4
72
Not enough data
9.1
64
Not enough data
8.8
58
Not enough data
8.9
58
Not enough data
9.0
51
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Website Monitoring
7.3
5
Not enough data
7.3
5
Not enough data
8.3
5
Not enough data
7.3
5
Not enough data
7.3
5
Not enough data
7.3
5
Not enough data
7.3
5
Not enough data
Experience
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Management
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Performance
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Functionality
9.2
105
Not enough data
9.1
106
Not enough data
9.3
90
Not enough data
8.9
105
Not enough data
8.8
89
Not enough data
8.9
94
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Database Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
7.0
5
Not enough data
Functionality
9.2
53
9.5
37
9.3
58
9.1
37
8.2
44
8.8
36
8.5
46
9.1
37
Monitoring - Network Monitoring
9.3
5
Not enough data
9.0
5
Not enough data
9.3
5
Not enough data
Management
8.7
50
9.1
37
9.0
51
8.8
37
8.8
48
9.1
37
Analytics - Network Monitoring
9.0
5
Not enough data
9.0
5
Not enough data
Security - Network Monitoring
9.0
5
Not enough data
9.0
5
Not enough data
9.0
5
Not enough data
Network Performance - Network Monitoring
9.0
5
Not enough data
9.0
5
Not enough data
AI Automation - Network Monitoring
8.3
5
Not enough data
8.7
5
Not enough data
8.7
5
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Network Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Monitoring
8.9
121
Not enough data
8.6
117
Not enough data
8.8
111
Not enough data
8.8
130
Not enough data
8.3
8
Not enough data
Administration
8.5
115
Not enough data
8.5
97
Not enough data
8.3
94
Not enough data
8.5
8
Not enough data
Analysis
8.5
113
Not enough data
8.9
122
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
7.9
8
Not enough data
8.8
8
Not enough data
7.3
8
Not enough data
7.5
8
Not enough data
7.9
8
Not enough data
7.9
7
Not enough data
AI Automation - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
8.1
8
Not enough data
7.5
8
Not enough data
Automation
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
8.1
7
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
8.5
9
Not enough data
Functionality
8.7
10
Not enough data
8.0
10
Not enough data
8.0
9
Not enough data
9.2
10
Not enough data
Incident Management
8.6
12
Not enough data
9.2
12
Not enough data
9.0
12
Not enough data
Functionality
9.1
16
Not enough data
8.5
17
Not enough data
9.4
21
Not enough data
Issue Resolution
9.0
19
Not enough data
9.1
16
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Management
8.7
19
Not enough data
9.6
19
Not enough data
8.9
19
Not enough data
Generative AI
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - AIOps Platforms
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Visibility
8.8
94
Not enough data
8.9
92
Not enough data
8.8
82
Not enough data
Monitoring and Management
8.2
84
Not enough data
8.7
86
Not enough data
9.0
92
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Log Monitoring
7.6
9
Not enough data
7.2
9
Not enough data
8.1
9
Not enough data
7.2
9
Not enough data
8.0
9
Not enough data
7.6
9
Not enough data
7.6
9
Not enough data
Visibility
8.9
78
8.5
18
8.7
73
9.0
18
8.3
71
8.5
18
Monitoring and Management
8.4
71
8.9
18
7.6
66
Feature Not Available
8.4
68
8.8
18
9.0
72
8.6
18
8.8
67
8.9
9
8.3
72
9.0
8
Cloud environment support
8.1
62
7.6
9
8.0
59
8.1
9
Agentic AI - Server Monitoring
7.5
6
Not enough data
8.3
6
Not enough data
8.9
6
Not enough data
7.2
6
Not enough data
7.8
6
Not enough data
7.2
6
Not enough data
8.1
6
Not enough data
Functionality
8.7
49
9.4
14
8.8
50
9.0
14
9.1
58
9.2
14
7.9
42
Feature Not Available
Management
8.6
50
9.4
15
8.6
52
8.9
14
8.2
44
9.2
14
9.0
54
9.2
14
Agentic AI - Enterprise Monitoring
7.8
9
Not enough data
8.3
9
Not enough data
7.8
9
Not enough data
8.1
9
Not enough data
7.5
10
Not enough data
8.1
9
Not enough data
8.1
9
Not enough data
Data Sources
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Analytics
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Metrics
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Device Recognition
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Monitoring
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Provisioning
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Data Preparation
8.6
66
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.5
64
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.0
62
|
Verified
Not enough data
7.9
63
|
Verified
Not enough data
Analysis
8.6
61
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.4
68
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.8
68
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.5
71
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.6
62
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.7
59
|
Verified
Not enough data
Visualization
8.9
75
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.7
63
|
Verified
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Log Analysis
7.8
6
Not enough data
7.8
6
Not enough data
8.9
6
Not enough data
7.8
6
Not enough data
8.1
6
Not enough data
7.5
6
Not enough data
7.8
6
Not enough data
Monitoring
8.6
113
Not enough data
8.9
106
Not enough data
8.9
118
Not enough data
7.3
99
Feature Not Available
8.4
105
Not enough data
Response
8.9
123
Not enough data
8.8
110
Not enough data
8.0
107
Feature Not Available
Agentic AI - Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
7.4
13
Not enough data
8.1
13
Not enough data
7.9
13
Not enough data
8.1
13
Not enough data
7.8
13
Not enough data
Performance
8.5
118
Feature Not Available
8.3
103
Feature Not Available
Functionality
8.5
106
9.0
5
8.1
96
Feature Not Available
Feature Not Available
Feature Not Available
8.5
112
8.0
5
Alerts management
8.7
43
Not enough data
8.0
45
Not enough data
8.6
47
Not enough data
Monitoring
8.6
39
Not enough data
9.1
41
Not enough data
8.7
43
Not enough data
9.0
38
Not enough data
Automation
8.2
38
Not enough data
8.4
36
Not enough data
Analysis
8.2
41
Not enough data
8.3
44
Not enough data
9.1
43
Not enough data
8.5
42
Not enough data
Issue Resolution
8.3
37
Not enough data
7.6
39
Not enough data
8.4
35
Not enough data
Generative AI
7.5
17
Not enough data
Agentic AI - IT Alerting
7.4
7
Not enough data
7.9
7
Not enough data
8.8
7
Not enough data
7.9
7
Not enough data
8.1
6
Not enough data
7.9
7
Not enough data
8.3
7
Not enough data
Data Management - Observability Pipeline
7.8
6
Not enough data
8.0
9
Not enough data
7.4
7
Not enough data
7.5
6
Not enough data
7.0
9
Not enough data
Performance - Observability Pipeline
6.7
8
Not enough data
8.1
9
Not enough data
7.0
9
Not enough data
AI - Observability Pipeline
6.4
7
Not enough data
6.1
6
Not enough data
6.7
6
Not enough data
Compliance - Observability Pipeline
6.9
6
Not enough data
6.1
6
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Observability Pipeline
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Telemetry Collection & Ingestion - Observability
8.3
10
Not enough data
8.8
8
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Observability Software
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Visualization & Dashboards - Observability
8.7
9
Not enough data
9.0
10
Not enough data
8.8
8
Not enough data
Correlation & Root Cause Analysis - Observability
9.2
10
Not enough data
8.3
9
Not enough data
8.7
10
Not enough data
Scalability & Ecosystem Integration - Observability
9.3
9
Not enough data
8.5
8
Not enough data
AI Features - Observability
7.9
8
Not enough data
8.8
8
Not enough data
8.3
8
Not enough data
Response
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
7.9
48
Not enough data
Records
9.2
56
Not enough data
9.0
54
Not enough data
8.5
61
Not enough data
Management
9.3
59
Not enough data
8.4
53
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Generative AI
7.1
13
Not enough data
7.9
13
Not enough data
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)Hide 14 FeaturesShow 14 Features
8.8
14
Not enough data
Network Management
8.8
11
Not enough data
8.3
11
Not enough data
9.4
12
Not enough data
Incident Management
9.3
12
Not enough data
9.2
11
Not enough data
9.2
12
Not enough data
Security Intelligence
7.9
12
Not enough data
8.0
10
Not enough data
8.8
11
Not enough data
8.6
13
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
Datadog and Nagios XI are categorized as Enterprise Monitoring, Server Monitoring, Application Performance Monitoring (APM), and Network Monitoring
Unique Categories
Datadog is categorized as Observability Pipeline, Observability Software, Log Monitoring, AIOps Platforms, Network Traffic Analysis (NTA), Database Monitoring, IoT Device Management Platforms, IoT Analytics Platforms, Website Monitoring, Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring, IT Alerting, Container Monitoring, Log Analysis, Incident Response, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), API Marketplace, Cloud Cost Management, and Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)
Nagios XI has no unique categories
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
Datadog
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Nagios XI
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Small-Business
(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market
(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise
(> 1000 emp.)
Reviewers' Industry
Information Technology and Services
18.7%
Computer Software
17.6%
Financial Services
8.5%
Internet
4.1%
Computer & Network Security
3.4%
Other
47.6%
Information Technology and Services
47.1%
Internet
13.7%
Computer & Network Security
7.8%
Telecommunications
3.9%
Insurance
3.9%
Other
23.5%
Discussions
What is the use of Datadog?
3 Comments
CJ
Datadog is a software platform that facilitates data sharing across various teams within an organization, thereby breaking down silos between development,...Read more
Does Datadog use AWS?
2 Comments
IG
Yes, the backbone of Datadog infrastructure is sitting within AWS.Read more
Does it preserves history of logs?
1 Comment
AN
Depends on your plan, log retention can be 7,15, 30 days etc, for long term you need to setup s3 archivingRead more
What is Nagios XI used for?
1 Comment
S
We are managing the Monitoring of Linux OS, and Windows OS, Various Network Devices, Websites and other Services Read more
Nagios XI has no more discussions with answers
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