We performed a comparison between Datadog and ThousandEyes based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software 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 ease of correcting these dashboards and widgets when needed is amazing."
"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."
"We really like the charts and visualization."
"The solution has improved the organization by providing good insights into app performance and offering good dashboards."
"Straightforward to integrate and automate."
"The interface and the integrations make it so easy to connect to the cloud or to the on-premise environment."
"The solution is sufficiently stable."
"It has a high-level insight into the infrastructure model of the application and provides important detailed data on the host and metrics, which is the main concern of our customers."
"The most valuable features are integration and ease of use."
"The company provides excellent service."
"ThousandEyes gives companies better visibility."
"The authentication overall - including to the VPN and LAN - is excellent."
"From our perspective, ThousandEyes stands out as an invaluable tool because of its deep and extensive capabilities."
"The installation process is not hard at all."
"The most valuable feature of ThousandEyes is user-friendliness. It has been essential for us to have a solution that is easy to use."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution was the ability to see how the connection quality is between the sites and get an alert if it was turning bad."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Once agents are connected to the Datadog portal, we should be able to upgrade them quickly."
"Since the Datadog platform has so many separate features, solving so many use cases, there are often inconsistencies in feature availability and interoperability between products."
"We primarily use the log management functionality, and the only feedback I have there is better fuzzy text searching in logs (the kind that Kibana has)."
"The product could do better with its notifications."
"The documentation leaves a lot to be desired for new users."
"The FinOps needs improvement."
"If there were a more cost-effective manner of deploying the tool, we'd be more likely to adopt it more widely."
"It would also be nice if we had more insight into our own usage of Datadog (agents and custom metrics). They provide a usage page which does help, but it is not in real-time."
"I would like the product to offer more agility."
"ThousandEyes could improve the dashboards by adding more features."
"It's an expensive solution."
"They only offer synthetic requests."
"The guest portal is hard to use."
"Once I fully use the tool 100%, I'm sure I would have something to critique, however, for now, I'm happy with it."
"Presently, it lacks the ability to integrate with other Cisco products."
"There is room for improvement in terms of customization and user-friendliness."
Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 137 reviews while ThousandEyes is ranked 12th in Network Monitoring Software with 11 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while ThousandEyes is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ThousandEyes writes "Reliable. simple to set up, and offers fast monitoring capabilities". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and AppDynamics, whereas ThousandEyes is most compared with Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Accedian Skylight, Dynatrace, SolarWinds NPM and AppDynamics. See our Datadog vs. ThousandEyes report.
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