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."
"Integrating Datadog with other platforms has made our monitoring processes a bit easier. It's not super simple, but it's manageable."
"We can handle debugging and find out why things are breaking in our applications."
"I have found some of the most valuable features to be the way things all come together that gives us a point of view that is useful. The panel is very beautiful and customizable."
"Datadog agents act as an integration to different services, providing easy access and management."
"Using the data, our operation teams works with the dashboards to get their statistics, analytics, etc."
"The CCM, Workflows, Logs, APM, and RUM are all useful aspects of the solution."
"We have hundreds of microservices, and knowing how top-level requests weave throughout all of them is invaluable."
"With Datadog I can look at the health of the technology stack and services."
"The score-based application performance ratings help the network team."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The product could be improved by providing remote control to agents, enabling them to execute automation and collections without requiring another automation tool or integration."
"It is very difficult to make the solutions fit perfectly for large organizations, especially in terms of high cardinality objects and multi-tenancy, where the data needs to be rolled up to a summarized level while maintaining its individual data granularity and identifiers."
"I've found that the documentation is lacking in certain regards."
"I would love to see more metrics or analytics in IoT devices."
"Datadog is expensive."
"The way data is represented can be limiting. When I first tried it out a long time ago, you could graph a metric and another metric, and they'd overlay, but you couldn't take the ratio between the two."
"We need more visibility into the error tracking dashboard."
"Delta traces on the Golang profiler are extremely expensive concerning memory utilization."
"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 AppDynamics, whereas Viavi Observer Platform is most compared with .
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