We performed a comparison between Datadog and Ixia Hawkeye based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The flexibility to create notebooks and dashboards and fully customize them gives us a lot of power to track the exact services and endpoints we are working on."
"The solution has helped our organization with custom events to track specific cases."
"The ability to send notifications based on metadata from the monitor is helpful."
"The visibility into our network has allowed for quick diagnosis of failures, identification of underutilized or over-utilized resources, and allowed for cloud cost optimization opportunities."
"The solution has offered increased visibility via logging APM, metrics, RUM, etc."
"It is easy to navigate the menu and create tests."
"We've found it most useful for managing Rstudio Workbench, which has its own logs that would not be picked up via Cloudwatch."
"The solution's SaaS model is easy to manage and works well in single- or multi-cloud environments."
"Our customer was happiest with the price of this product."
"It empowers network administrators to access specialized and detailed views for specific tests, including video streaming and performance related to specific applications like video games."
"The ease of setup is the most valuable aspect of this solution. It's easy to set up and run tests."
"The most valuable feature is the deployment because it's very easy to deploy real flow through the network."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It seems that admin cost control granularity is an afterthought."
"When the logs are too big, and Datadog splits them, the JSON format breaks and it is not so useful for us."
"The solution should provide alerts for cloud outages."
"As a new customer, the Datadog user interface is a bit daunting."
"Some of the interface is still confusing to use."
"More pre-configured "Monitor Alerts" would be helpful."
"The documentation could be improved regarding setting up the agent properly and debugging."
"Datadog could have a better business analysis module."
"The customization of tests and even the results can be improved."
"You can't delete more than one thing at a time. It would be great to be able to highlight three out of five things and delete them, whether it's a test or an actual report."
"Ixia has one flaw, which is that they do not print the license code on the paper licenses that are shipped to the customers."
"Improvements in network performance are essential."
Datadog is ranked 2nd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 137 reviews while Ixia Hawkeye is ranked 45th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 4 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Ixia Hawkeye is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Ixia Hawkeye writes "A valuable tool for optimizing network performance and security with comprehensive network monitoring capabilities, user-friendly interface, and flexibility for scripting". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and AppDynamics, whereas Ixia Hawkeye is most compared with ThousandEyes, Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline, NETSCOUT nGeniusONE and SolarWinds NPM. See our Datadog vs. Ixia Hawkeye report.
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