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."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"The solution has improved the organization by providing good insights into app performance and offering good dashboards."
"The ability to send notifications based on metadata from the monitor is helpful."
"The dashboards are great."
"It has a nice UI."
"APM and tracing are super useful."
"The many dozens of integrations that the solution brings out of the box are excellent."
"I like the amount of tooling and the number of solutions they sold with their monitoring. Datadog was highly intuitive to use."
"We integrate our application logs. It is great to be able to tie our metrics and our traces together."
"The score-based application performance ratings help the network team."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I want to applaud the efforts in making the UI extremely usable and approachable. My suggestion would be to take another look at how the menu structure is put together, however. Even after using the platform mostly every day for months, I still find myself trying to find a service or feature in the menus."
"Some of the interface is still confusing to use."
"Could be a little more user friendly."
"Datadog lacks a deeper application-level insight. Their competitors had eclipsed them in offering ET functionality that was important to us. That's why we stopped using it and switched to New Relic. Datadog's price is also high."
"Even though it is powerful on its own, the UI-based design lacks elegance, efficiency, and complexity."
"The correlation between the logs and the metrics needs improvement as most cases, we might use another logging tool (that is cheaper in cost) which we then have to link together."
"The error traceability is an area that can be improved."
"All solutions have some area to improve, and in Datadog they can improve their overall technology moving forward."
"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 116th 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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