We performed a comparison between Datadog and Ixia Hawkeye 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 single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"Anything I've wanted to do, I found a way to get it done through Datadog."
"The Datadog suite has allowed us to easily integrate log collection into all of our services and quickly detect unexpected changes in system data to declare security incidents."
"Excellent autocomplete for everything in the UI."
"The monitoring functionality, in general, and tagging infrastructure are great."
"Its integration definitely stands out. It provides seamless monitoring of all our systems, services, apps, and whatever else we secure and monitor. Visualizations have become simpler with dashboards. We are getting visibility into systems, services, and apps stack through a single pane of glass, which is good. We are able to put logs in context."
"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 web app has a real-time support chat window in which a support engineer is chatting with you within a minute."
"Datadog has proven to be easy to set up and legible for both development and operational teams."
"Our customer was happiest with the price of this product."
"The ease of setup is the most valuable aspect of this solution. It's easy to set up and run tests."
"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 most valuable feature is the deployment because it's very easy to deploy real flow through the network."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Even though it is powerful on its own, the UI-based design lacks elegance, efficiency, and complexity."
"More granular control over dashboard sharing. Timeboard sharing."
"The installation is easy for me. However, if you are new to this solution it might not be so easy."
"They should continue expanding and integrating with more third-party apps."
"We need more visibility into the error tracking dashboard."
"The way data is represented can be limiting. When I first tried it out a long time ago, you could graph a metric and another metric, and they'd overlay, but you couldn't take the ratio between the two."
"There is occasional UI slowness and bugs."
"We need more integration with security tools like Drata."
"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."
"The customization of tests and even the results can be improved."
"Improvements in network performance are essential."
"Ixia has one flaw, which is that they do not print the license code on the paper licenses that are shipped to the customers."
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Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 137 reviews while Ixia Hawkeye is ranked 53rd in Network Monitoring Software 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 Elastic Observability, whereas Ixia Hawkeye is most compared with ThousandEyes, NETSCOUT nGeniusONE and Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline. See our Datadog vs. Ixia Hawkeye report.
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