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."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"It is a good one stop location where we keep all our data for our infrastructure, and it's also easier to navigate between different things."
"The most valuable aspect is the APM which can monitor the metrics and latencies."
"Most of the features in the way Datadog does monitoring are commendable and that is the reason we choose it. We did some comparisons before picking Datadog. Datadog was recommended based on the features provided."
"We can handle debugging and find out why things are breaking in our applications."
"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."
"Datadog provides tracing and logging, whereas Dynatrace focuses on tracing, and Splunk is more of a logging tool. Datadog's advantage is that we don't need two tools."
"The monitoring functionality, in general, and tagging infrastructure are 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."
"Not only can you look at the protocol import level. It also has a live PCAP analysis."
"This solution is more applications reference architecture focused. Its benefit is that it specializes in that space."
"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."
"Wire data analytics."
"There are many valuable features in this product, but probably the biggest is the customization capability it has."
"The most valuable features are security detections, perimeter detection, dashboards, and alerts."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The pricing should be less of a surprise."
"When it comes to storing the logs with Datadog, I'm not sure why it costs so much to store gigabytes or terabytes of information when it's a fraction of the cost to do so myself."
"It lacks consistency in the APIs."
"There are things about it that we would like to be fixed, such as it is taking averages of average. This results in data that we don't expect."
"Once Datadog has gained wide adoption, it can often be overwhelming to both know and understand where to go to find answers to questions."
"The dashboard could be improved. It would be helpful to get a view of specific things that we need to monitor for our application."
"The incident management beta looks promising, but it is still missing the ability to automatically create incidents based on certain alerts."
"The pricing is a bit confusing."
"This solution would be improved if it had the ability to retain data longer."
"Network visibility is something that needs to be improved."
"They either have to go broad or decide what their bread and butter is and get really good at that."
"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."
"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, Dynatrace and LiveAction LiveNX. See our Datadog vs. ExtraHop Reveal(x) for IT Operations report.
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