We performed a comparison between Datadog and NETSCOUT vSTREAM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The most valuable aspect is for us to have everything in one place."
"We have been able to set very specific CPU and memory alerts, at the very base level, then we started to pull real business value, like 99th percentile response rates for our API calls."
"The monitoring functionality, in general, and tagging infrastructure are great."
"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 helped us a ton by allowing us to set up a multitude of easily configurable alarms across our tech stack and infrastructure."
"I find the greatest feature is being able to search across logs from various microservices."
"This is definitely a good product and I would consider them one of the leaders within the application monitoring and cloud monitoring space."
"We like the distributed tracing and flame graphs for debugging. This has been invaluable for us during periods of high traffic or red alert conditions."
"vSTREAM gives us better visibility and reporting about our network infrastructure, allowing for cost-optimization."
"One of the valuable features is the packet decoding."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I would like testing for data in the future."
"Datadog has a lot of documentation, but a lot of that documentation assumes you know how the service works, which can lead to confusion."
"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."
"The documentation leaves a lot to be desired for new users."
"I sometimes log in and see items changed, either in the UI or a feature enabled. To see it for the first time without proper communication can sometimes come as a shock."
"We need more advanced querying against logs."
"It would be nice to be able to graph metrics by excluding certain tags (like you can do in monitors)."
"Datadog is so feature-rich that it is often hard to onboard new folks and tough to decide where to invest time."
"I would like for it to have a smaller footprint of the virtual appliance and better performance."
"Room for improvement exists in filtering in the packet decode."
"I would like to see improvements made to the user guide."
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Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 137 reviews while NETSCOUT vSTREAM is ranked 72nd in Network Monitoring Software. Datadog is rated 8.6, while NETSCOUT vSTREAM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NETSCOUT vSTREAM writes "Troubleshooting at the packet level helps us resolve issues more quickly". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and AppDynamics, whereas NETSCOUT vSTREAM is most compared with vRealize Network Insight, Azure Network Watcher, NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG, Arista Data ANalyZer and NETSCOUT nGeniusONE.
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