We performed a comparison between Datadog and InfoVista 5View NetFlow based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."The ease with which we can filter, use metrics, and give accounts to customers, then let the customer filter, set up metrics, and alerts. This has been a big win for us."
"Datadog has so far been a breeze to use and set up."
"If we have a large load for users using our basic Datadog, it will immediately fire off an alert notifying us either something's wrong or not."
"Dashboards and their versatility are among the most valuable features."
"We've found it most useful for managing Rstudio Workbench, which has its own logs that would not be picked up via Cloudwatch."
"The most useful feature is the APM."
"APM is great and has provided low-effort out-of-the-box observability for various services."
"The most valuable feature of Datadog is its logs."
"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."
"The more tools that they can build that allow you to run AWX playbooks, or other similar fixes, would benefit clients greatly."
"It would be nice to be able to graph metrics by excluding certain tags (like you can do in monitors)."
"The current way accounts are billed could be vastly improved - especially when involving multiple organizations across multiple accounts in combination with reserved commitments."
"Ingesting data from various sources to monitor the log metrics of the system can always improve so that, if something goes wrong, the right teams are alerted."
"This service could be less costly."
"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."
"Once Datadog has gained wide adoption, it can often be overwhelming to both know and understand where to go to find answers to questions."
"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."
"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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Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 137 reviews while InfoVista 5View NetFlow is ranked 61st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability. Datadog is rated 8.6, while InfoVista 5View NetFlow 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 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, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and AppDynamics, whereas InfoVista 5View NetFlow is most compared with Catchpoint.
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