We performed a comparison between Datadog and Viavi Observer Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"It is great that creating an incident is possible from Slack while having all the relevant data in Datadog."
"The seamless integration between Datadog and hundreds of apps makes onboarding new products and teams a breeze."
"It is easy to navigate the menu and create tests."
"The ease of correcting these dashboards and widgets when needed is amazing."
"The solution's SaaS model is easy to manage and works well in single- or multi-cloud environments."
"APM is great and has provided low-effort out-of-the-box observability for various services."
"The solution has helped our organization with custom events to track specific cases."
"Having a clear view, not only of our infrastructure but our apps and services as well, has brought a great added value to our customers."
"The score-based application performance ratings help the network team."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Their security features could be improved. We looked at their Security Monitoring feature but it was early in its development. Datadog are just getting into the security space so I'm sure this will improve in the future."
"They should continue expanding and integrating with more third-party apps."
"Its pricing model can be improved. Its settings should be improved for a better understanding of billing. They should also provide some alerts when there is an increase in the usage. For example, if there is 20% more increase from one week to another, the customer should get an alert."
"The Log Explorer could be better. I don't think it has log manipulation as Splunk does."
"I think better access to their engineers when we have a problem could be better."
"We would like to see some versioning system for the Synthetic Tests so that we could have a backup of our tests since they are time-consuming to make and very easy to damage in a moment of error."
"Since the Datadog platform has so many separate features, solving so many use cases, there are often inconsistencies in feature availability and interoperability between products."
"It does not have the best interface."
"The product must start using a bit more machine learning and AI, especially for security."
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Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 137 reviews while Viavi Observer Platform is ranked 120th in Network Monitoring Software with 1 review. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Viavi Observer Platform is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Viavi Observer Platform writes "The product is extremely valuable and provides a lot of functionalities and visibility to organizations". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas Viavi Observer Platform is most compared with .
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