We performed a comparison between Datadog and Versa Director 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 single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"For us to have visibility into our app stack and the hardware we run has been highly beneficial."
"APM and tracing are super useful."
"The tools are powerful and intuitive to set up."
"APM is great and has provided low-effort out-of-the-box observability for various services."
"The solution has offered increased visibility via logging APM, metrics, RUM, etc."
"The full stack of integrations made it easier to monitor the different technologies and platform providers, including Software as a Service providers, that otherwise would need a lot of work and customization to be able to see what is happening."
"Its integration definitely stands out. It provides seamless monitoring of all our systems, services, apps, and whatever else we secure and monitor. Visualizations have become simpler with dashboards. We are getting visibility into systems, services, and apps stack through a single pane of glass, which is good. We are able to put logs in context."
"It has provided visibility with ease of implementation and allowed multiple teams to quickly onboard it."
"The most valuable functionality is some of the policy pieces that are quite useful."
"Versa Director's best feature is the ease of configuration and customer and vendor management."
"Versa Director is the fastest engineering tool and is ideal for use without product management."
"The most valuable feature of Versa Director is analytics."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"Graph filters for logs need to be set manually which works well for JSON but not for unstructured logs."
"The logging could be improved in the future."
"One thing we have run into is that it is so easy to add monitoring that we turn on things without really understanding the costs."
"Auto instrumentation on tracing has not been very easy to find in the documentation."
"In the past two years, there have been a couple of outages."
"It can have a more modernized pricing mechanism. We're actually working with them to figure out how to become more modular and have a better and more modernized pricing mechanism. The issue with Datadog is that you have to buy the whole suite of different products, and you kind of get stuck in the old utilization of 40% of their suite. Most organizations today break down between application development, networking, and security. Therefore, there should be a way to break down different modules into just app dev, infosec, networking, etc. Customers have various needs across their business lines, and sometimes, they're just not willing to have tools that they're not using 100%. AppDynamics is probably a little bit better in terms of being modular."
"The incident management beta looks promising, but it is still missing the ability to automatically create incidents based on certain alerts."
"More pre-configured "Monitor Alerts" would be helpful."
"Versa Director's deployment process is not the best."
"It requires some simplification."
"Versa could be more AI-oriented."
"What needs improvement in Versa Director is maturity because, from an operating point of view, it's not mature enough. You'll still need to do a lot of research on Versa Director, so if it could mature faster, that would be very good."
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Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 137 reviews while Versa Director is ranked 56th in Network Monitoring Software with 4 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Versa Director 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 Versa Director writes "User-friendly and simpler than its competitors". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and AppDynamics, whereas Versa Director is most compared with Zabbix, ThousandEyes, SolarWinds NPM and PRTG Network Monitor. See our Datadog vs. Versa Director report.
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