We performed a comparison between Datadog and Versa Director 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."
"Having a clear view, not only of our infrastructure but our apps and services as well, has brought a great added value to our customers."
"APM is great and has provided low-effort out-of-the-box observability for various services."
"The ability to easily drill down into log queries quickly and efficiently has helped us to resolve several critical incidents."
"The most useful feature is the APM."
"Flame graphs are pretty useful for understanding how GraphQL resolves our federated queries when it comes to identifying slow points in our requests. In our microservice environment with 170 services."
"It has scaled great. I haven't run into any problems anywhere that I've used it. They have handled everything that we have needed them to."
"The most valuable features of Datadog are the flexibility and additional features when compared to other solutions, such as AppDynamics and Dynatrace. Some of the features include AI and ML capabilities and cloud and analysis monitoring"
"The web app has a real-time support chat window in which a support engineer is chatting with you within a minute."
"The most valuable functionality is some of the policy pieces that are quite useful."
"Versa Director is the fastest engineering tool and is ideal for use without product management."
"Versa Director's best feature is the ease of configuration and customer and vendor management."
"The most valuable feature of Versa Director is analytics."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"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 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)."
"Datadog isn't as mature as some of the established players like Dynatrace or Splunk. It's a new product, so they are constantly releasing new features, and I don't have much to complain about."
"It seems that admin cost control granularity is an afterthought."
"Datadog has a lot of features kind of cramped into one dashboard. It's quite hard to get around what feature does exactly what. There was a steep learning curve, trying to navigate through menus."
"The product is quite complex, and there are so many features that I either didn't know about or wasn't sure how to use."
"Datadog could have a better business analysis module."
"We need more integration with security tools like Drata."
"Versa Director's deployment process is not the best."
"Versa could be more AI-oriented."
"What needs improvement in Versa Director is maturity because, from an operating point of view, it's not mature enough. You'll still need to do a lot of research on Versa Director, so if it could mature faster, that would be very good."
"It requires some simplification."
Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 137 reviews while Versa Director is ranked 58th in Network Monitoring Software with 4 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Versa Director 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 Versa Director writes "User-friendly and simpler than its competitors". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and AppDynamics, whereas Versa Director is most compared with ThousandEyes, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM and PRTG Network Monitor. See our Datadog vs. Versa Director report.
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