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."
"The application performance monitoring is pretty good."
"The tool's deployment is easy."
"The ability to send notifications based on metadata from the monitor is helpful."
"Anything I've wanted to do, I found a way to get it done through Datadog."
"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."
"We find they have a very helpful alert system."
"Datadog dashboards are pretty great."
"The ingestion points are unlimited and support customization. We haven't had anything yet that we haven't been able to integrate with it."
"The score-based application performance ratings help the network team."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"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."
"It could use some additional features when working with metrics like Grafana or like New Relic has. Datadog does not use library technologies like Dynatrace does. Datadog has machine learning too, but it does not have this option in all layers of monitoring like infrastructure service process in applications."
"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."
"The product is quite complex, and there are so many features that I either didn't know about or wasn't sure how to use."
"We need to learn more about the session reply feature inside of DD."
"Some of the interface is still confusing to use."
"More pre-configured "Monitor Alerts" would be helpful."
"I would love to see support for front-end and mobile applications. Right now, it is mostly all back-end stuff. Being able to do some integration with our front-end products would be awesome."
"The product must start using a bit more machine learning and AI, especially for security."
More Juniper Mist Premium Analytics Pricing and Cost Advice →
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 .
See our list of best Network Monitoring Software vendors.
We monitor all Network Monitoring Software reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.