We performed a comparison between Datadog and ExtraHop Reveal(x) for IT Operations 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."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The seamless integration between Datadog and hundreds of apps makes onboarding new products and teams a breeze."
"The visibility into our network has allowed for quick diagnosis of failures, identification of underutilized or over-utilized resources, and allowed for cloud cost optimization opportunities."
"Because of our client focus, it is easy for us to sell. This is because it is easy to use and easy to set up."
"The network map is crucial in identifying bottlenecks and determining what needs more attention."
"Flame graphs are pretty useful for understanding how GraphQL resolves our federated queries when it comes to identifying slow points in our requests. In our microservice environment with 170 services."
"It has a nice UI."
"The observability on offer is the most useful aspect of the product."
"The web app has a real-time support chat window in which a support engineer is chatting with you within a minute."
"The most valuable features are security detections, perimeter detection, dashboards, and alerts."
"This solution is more applications reference architecture focused. Its benefit is that it specializes in that space."
"Not only can you look at the protocol import level. It also has a live PCAP analysis."
"Wire data analytics."
"The most valuable feature is the way it handles data, from Layer 2 up to Layer 7. We can see everything that happens in the network."
"There are many valuable features in this product, but probably the biggest is the customization capability it has."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"They should continue expanding and integrating with more third-party apps."
"All solutions have some area to improve, and in Datadog they can improve their overall technology moving forward."
"Auto instrumentation on tracing has not been very easy to find in the documentation."
"The documentation leaves a lot to be desired for new users."
"We need to learn more about the session reply feature inside of DD."
"I'm not sure what kind of features are in the roadmap right now, but I encourage the development of features for defining your organization, and allowing the visibility of what kind of metrics you can get. Those features would be really useful for us."
"I'm still exploring the trial version, and it is fine. One thing that I haven't been able to figure out is how to retrieve a report. This is something that could be improved. I probably need to navigate to a place to access the reports."
"It would be ideal if the product offered a bit more monitoring from our dashboard."
"We'd like to see a local presence within the region in order to have seamless service whether it's the support, the implementation, or professional services."
"This solution would be improved if it had the ability to retain data longer."
"They either have to go broad or decide what their bread and butter is and get really good at that."
"Network visibility is something that needs to be improved."
"I would improve the Rule-Based Access Control (RBAC) by providing granular access control to the data."
"They have a new solution, ExtraHop Reveal(x), and I think it needs improvement."
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Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 137 reviews while ExtraHop Reveal(x) for IT Operations is ranked 57th in Network Monitoring Software with 8 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while ExtraHop Reveal(x) for IT Operations is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ExtraHop Reveal(x) for IT Operations writes "Great for identifying application interdependencies with helpful support but needs better visualizations". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas ExtraHop Reveal(x) for IT Operations is most compared with NETSCOUT nGeniusONE, ThousandEyes, vRealize Network Insight, SolarWinds NPM and Fortinet FortiSIEM. See our Datadog vs. ExtraHop Reveal(x) for IT Operations report.
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