When comparing Dynatrace Ruxit vs Data Dog, the Slant community recommends Data Dog for most people. In the question“What are the best server performance monitoring tools?” Data Dog is ranked 11th while Dynatrace Ruxit is ranked 20th. The most important reason people chose Data Dog is:
5 VMs with 24h history and no alerts for free.
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Pros
Pro Easy to use
Ruxit was easy to implement and work with. It automatically detects a running server without needing any scripts or config files set up.
Pro Dashboard provides a comprehensive overview
Ruxit's dashboard has a tile-based, customizable UI that's similar to that of Windows 8. It present information on CPU, memory and network.
Pro First 1,000 hours are free
Ruxit offers users the first 1,000 hours of monitoring for free.
Pro Affordable
Application monitoring is $0.15/hr.
Pro Offers problem root-cause analysis, evolution, replay
Shows you how problems evolved, what is affected, and how to fix them.
Pro Limited free tier
5 VMs with 24h history and no alerts for free.
Pro Docker support
The Datadog Agent container runs with the other containers on a host. It collects metrics from neighboring containers and from the host. It can monitor 10 or 20 containers free per host license.
Cons
Con Lacks full nginx support
Nginx server support is in beta. It already shows response times, resource times, failure rates, top web requests etc. According to their site, full nginx support is coming soon.
Con $15/host/month is quite expensive
If you are running big fat systems which are probably bare metal, DataDog may be a very good fit. But if you are running small virtual machines you may discover that its somewhat expensive price can become a real problem.