We performed a comparison between Datadog and ThousandEyes 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 visibility that it provides is valuable. It is helping in being proactive around incident management. It is helping us to be able to get more visibility into our customers' applications so that we can assist them at the application layer. We also provide them the infrastructure from an AWS standpoint. We are able to make sure that our customers are aware of certain critical things around the analytical piece of either the network or the application. We're able to call customers before they even know about the issue. From there, we can start putting together some change management processes and help them a bit."
"We've found it most useful for managing Rstudio Workbench, which has its own logs that would not be picked up via Cloudwatch."
"The solution's SaaS model is easy to manage and works well in single- or multi-cloud environments."
"The most valuable aspect is for us to have everything in one place."
"The most useful feature is the APM."
"Datadog has proven to be easy to set up and legible for both development and operational teams."
"Since we integrated Datadog, we have had increased confidence in the quality of our service, and we had an easier time increasing our delivery velocity."
"With Datadog I can look at the health of the technology stack and services."
"The solution's initial setup process was straightforward...In terms of ROI, the solution is worth the money."
"The most valuable feature of ThousandEyes is user-friendliness. It has been essential for us to have a solution that is easy to use."
"ThousandEyes gives companies better visibility."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The authentication overall - including to the VPN and LAN - is excellent."
"It's fairly easy to set up."
"From our perspective, ThousandEyes stands out as an invaluable tool because of its deep and extensive capabilities."
"The installation process is not hard at all."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"There is always room for improvement when dealing with cloud-based technologies. Mainly, I would say, it's just increasing our offerings to attract various other types of industries and businesses across more fields."
"Datadog does not have the feature where you can monitor external websites or check the SSL secure for websites."
"They need to implement template variables into the message response body."
"The ease of implementation needs improvement."
"Ingesting data from various sources to monitor the log metrics of the system can always improve so that, if something goes wrong, the right teams are alerted."
"The sheer amount of products that are included can be overwhelming."
"The menu on the left is pretty dense (and I know it has to be). I never knew about the cmd+k functionality until recently. It would be helpful to offer more tips/cheat sheets to see handy shortcuts like that."
"The documentation leaves a lot to be desired for new users."
"It's an expensive solution."
"I would like the product to offer more agility."
"It might be practical to extend monitoring capabilities to include network devices"
"There is room for improvement in terms of customization and user-friendliness."
"It would be nice if the solution covered other areas like server monitoring."
"The guest portal is hard to use."
"The tool does not provide features for application-level monitoring."
"ThousandEyes could improve the dashboards by adding more features."
Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 137 reviews while ThousandEyes is ranked 12th in Network Monitoring Software with 11 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while ThousandEyes is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ThousandEyes writes "Reliable. simple to set up, and offers fast monitoring capabilities". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas ThousandEyes is most compared with Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Accedian Skylight, Dynatrace, SolarWinds NPM and AppDynamics. See our Datadog vs. ThousandEyes report.
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