Compare Datadog vs. InfoVista 5View NetFlow
Datadog is ranked 5th in Application Performance Management (APM) with 10 reviews while InfoVista 5View NetFlow is ranked 46th in Application Performance Management (APM) with 1 review. Datadog is rated 8.2, while InfoVista 5View NetFlow is rated 0. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "They have a good ecosystem for their integrations". 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 New Relic APM, Splunk and AppDynamics, whereas InfoVista 5View NetFlow is most compared with AppDynamics, Splunk and Datadog.
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It has enhanced the performance of my team. It provides more cloud data. They tend to just get the way a service would be designed on the cloud. It has saved us a lot of trouble in implementation. 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. The integration and configuration are incredibly simple. The SaaS offering is remarkably easy to set up, especially if you're coming from a Graphite environment or anything that uses a StatsD. The ingestion points are unlimited and support customization. We haven't had anything yet that we haven't been able to integrate with it. 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. It has a nice UI. | 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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The product could do better with its notifications. It does not have the best interface. Stability of the product has been a concern for us outside of the primary monitoring agents. 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. We have asked technical support questions, and sometimes they don't get back to us right away. Or when they do, it is not the right answer. 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. I would like testing for data in the future. | 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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The pricing came up a bit compared to their competitors. It is not that the price has risen, but that the competitors have gone down. They keep adding more features that I would have expected to be baked in at a more nominal price. I have been increasingly dissatisfied with the pricing, but not enough to jump ship. It costs the same amount it would if we were hosting it ourselves, so we are incredibly happy with the cost. At my last company, we did see ROI, specifically around response time. We could get to mission critical things that were down and losing revenue on immediately. So, the product paid itself back. The pricing and licensing through AWS Marketplace has been good. It would be nice if it was cheaper, but their pricing is reasonable for what it is. Sometimes, for their newer features, they charge as if it's fully fleshed out, even though it is a newer feature and it may have less stuff than their other items. It has always scaled for us. Cost scales up too, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. It's reasonable for what they're providing. Pricing and licensing are reasonable for what they give you. You get the first five hosts free, which is fun to play around with. Then it's about four dollars a month per host, which is very affordable for what you get out of it. We have a lot of hosts that we put a lot of custom metrics into, and every host gives you an allowance for the number of custom metrics. ​Pricing seems reasonable. It depends on the size of your organization, the size of your infrastructure, and what portion of your overall business costs go toward infrastructure. | Information Not Available |
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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. |
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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 |
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Comms Service Provider25% Media Company13% Manufacturing Company13% Financial Services Firm13% Software R&D Company19% Financial Services Firm17% Retailer8% Media Company7% | No Data Available |
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Small Business57% Midsize Enterprise29% Large Enterprise14% Small Business40% Midsize Enterprise10% Large Enterprise50% | No Data Available |
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