We performed a comparison between Datadog and NETSCOUT vSTREAM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The solution is useful for monitoring logs."
"Datadog has flexibility."
"I like that you can build out a dashboard pretty quickly. There are some things that come out of the box that you don't really need to do, which is great because they're default settings."
"The observability on offer is the most useful aspect of the product."
"The most valuable aspects of the product include the APM and profiler."
"Datadog has proven to be easy to set up and legible for both development and operational teams."
"Datadog's seamless integration with Slack and PagerDuty helped us to receive alerts right to the most common notification methods we use (our mobile devices and Slack)."
"The integration and configuration are incredibly simple. The SaaS offering is remarkably easy to set up, especially if you're coming from a Graphite environment or anything that uses a StatsD."
"vSTREAM gives us better visibility and reporting about our network infrastructure, allowing for cost-optimization."
"One of the valuable features is the packet decoding."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Lacks some flexibility in the customization."
"At the beginning, when we started throwing logs at it, there was a bit of hiccup. However, this was during their beta period, so hiccups were expected."
"They need to implement template variables into the message response body."
"Datadog is so feature-rich that it is often hard to onboard new folks and tough to decide where to invest time."
"I often have issues with the UI in my browser."
"Datadog could be improved if it could detect other software in a container or server."
"It could use some additional features when working with metrics like Grafana or like New Relic has. Datadog does not use library technologies like Dynatrace does. Datadog has machine learning too, but it does not have this option in all layers of monitoring like infrastructure service process in applications."
"There are things about it that we would like to be fixed, such as it is taking averages of average. This results in data that we don't expect."
"I would like to see improvements made to the user guide."
"I would like for it to have a smaller footprint of the virtual appliance and better performance."
"Room for improvement exists in filtering in the packet decode."
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Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 137 reviews while NETSCOUT vSTREAM is ranked 73rd in Network Monitoring Software. Datadog is rated 8.6, while NETSCOUT vSTREAM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NETSCOUT vSTREAM writes "Troubleshooting at the packet level helps us resolve issues more quickly". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas NETSCOUT vSTREAM is most compared with vRealize Network Insight, Arista Data ANalyZer, Azure Network Watcher and NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG. See our Datadog vs. NETSCOUT vSTREAM report.
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