Compare Datadog vs. InfoVista 5View NetFlow
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"This is definitely a good product and I would consider them one of the leaders within the application monitoring and cloud monitoring space." "Datadog's ability to group and visualize the servers and the data makes it relatively easy for the root cause analysis." "Straightforward to integrate and automate." "Having a clear view, not only of our infrastructure but our apps and services as well, has brought a great added value to our customers." "Having a wealth of information has helped us investigate outages, and having historical data helps us tune our system." "The most valuable features are logging, the extensive set of integrations, and easy jumpstart." "The fact that everything is under a single pane of glass is really valuable, as developers don't have to spend their time copying correlation IDs across tools to find what they need." "The most valuable feature is the dashboards that are provided out of the box, as well as ones we were able to configure." | "InfoVista 5View NetFlow allows us to control the application layer and manage API connections, i.e. Facebook logins or whatever other third-party API services we require." |
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"Additional metrics should be included." "Datadog lacks a deeper application-level insight. Their competitors had eclipsed them in offering ET functionality that was important to us. That's why we stopped using it and switched to New Relic. Datadog's price is also high." "Could be a little more user friendly." "The error traceability is an area that can be improved." "The pricing model could be simplified as it feels a bit outdated, especially when you look at the billing model of compute instances vs the containers instances." "Datadog has a lot of documentation, but a lot of that documentation assumes you know how the service works, which can lead to confusion." "In the past two years, there have been a couple of outages." "The incident management beta looks promising, but it is still missing the ability to automatically create incidents based on certain alerts." | "A little bit better documentation on the details is needed because this subject is not easy sometimes to understand, which limits the capability of the software." |
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"It didn't scale well from the cost perspective. We had a custom package deal." "The price is better than some competing products." "Pricing is somewhat affordable compared to other solutions but in order to really lower the costs of other products you need to plan very carefully your resources usage, otherwise, it can get expensive real quick." "It is easy to run up a large bill, so become familiar with the cost of each piece of your bill and use the metrics they supply to estimate and monitor your bill." "Pricing seemed easy until the bill came in and some things were not accounted for." "The cost is high and this can be justified if the scale of the environment is big." "My advice is to really keep an eye on your overage costs, as they can spiral really fast." | Information Not Available |
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Questions from the Community | |
Top Answer: This is definitely a good product and I would consider them one of the leaders within the application monitoring and cloud monitoring space. Top Answer: Additional metrics should be included. Better integration with other solutions is needed. Top Answer: We are a solution provider and Datadog is one of the products that I was working on with one of my clients. They are currently evaluating it for use in cloud monitoring. Specifically, Datadog is used… more » | Ask a question Earn 20 points |
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Views 33,446 Comparisons 27,766 Reviews 7 Average Words per Review 548 Rating 8.1 | Views 437 Comparisons 283 Reviews 0 Average Words per Review 828 Rating N/A |
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Also Known As | |
| 5View NetFlow | |
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| Datadog | InfoVista |
Overview | |
| Datadog is a monitoring service for IT, Dev and Ops teams who write and run applications at scale, and want to turn the massive amounts of data produced by their apps, tools and services into actionable insight. | InfoVista 5View NetFlow, a powerful real-time application flow monitoring and analysis tool. With its comprehensive flow monitoring capabilities, 5View NetFlow shows users exactly what they need to know to manage and identify legitimate and problematic traffic.This includes the top talkers, who is communicating with whom, what applications and protocols are being used and how long connections typically last. Using indicators such as link activity, geographic object pair matrices, As to As traffic, IN/OUT flow measurement, undefined IP address detection, throughput and IP communications totals, 5View NetFlow enables you to efficiently analyze and monitor IP traffic volumes and application performance across the infrastructure. |
Offer | |
Learn more about Datadog | Learn more about InfoVista 5View NetFlow |
Sample Customers | |
| Adobe, Samsung, facebook, HP Cloud Services, Electronic Arts, salesforce, Stanford University, CiTRIX, Chef, zendesk, Hearst Magazines, Spotify, mercardo libre, Slashdot, Ziff Davis, PBS, MLS, The Motley Fool, Politico, Barneby's | Warren Consolidated Schools |
Top Industries | |
Computer Software Company18% Financial Services Firm12% Comms Service Provider12% Educational Organization12% Computer Software Company32% Comms Service Provider17% Media Company7% Financial Services Firm6% | No Data Available |
Company Size | |
Small Business40% Midsize Enterprise28% Large Enterprise32% Small Business32% Midsize Enterprise9% Large Enterprise59% | No Data Available |
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Datadog is ranked 4th in Application Performance Management (APM) with 11 reviews while InfoVista 5View NetFlow is ranked 49th in Application Performance Management (APM) with 1 review. Datadog is rated 8.8, while InfoVista 5View NetFlow is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Provides insightful analytics and good visibility that assist with making architectural decisions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of InfoVista 5View NetFlow writes "Great for service discovery and load balancing and enables us to monitor the traffic flow". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Splunk, New Relic APM, Azure Monitor and Zabbix, whereas InfoVista 5View NetFlow is most compared with Dynatrace and AppDynamics.
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