We performed a comparison between Datadog and vRealize Network Insight 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."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the APM."
"It has saved us a lot of trouble in implementation."
"The solution is useful for monitoring logs."
"The fact that everything is under a single pane of glass is really valuable, as developers don't have to spend their time copying correlation IDs across tools to find what they need."
"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."
"We find they have a very helpful alert system."
"It lets us react more quickly to things going wrong. Whereas before, it might have been 30 minutes to an hour before we noticed something going on, we will know within a minute or two if something is off, which will let us essentially get something back up and running faster for our customers, which is revenue."
"The ability to send notifications based on metadata from the monitor is helpful."
"By doing dependency mapping, it makes migrations more efficient. There are less outages that require engineers to spend additional hours troubleshooting the migration failures."
"Also, the ability to troubleshoot all the way across the NSX part of it to the physical and actually watch the packets go through and then see where the bottleneck is or where the interruption is. We run queries on the network flows within the application to find where they are in it and it graphically tells us how the packets are actually going through the system."
"The ability to use the natural language query and see the visualization is quickly intuitive, and it works very well."
"It especially helps with deploying NSX, that you're not having to manually chase down and figure out what you need to do to microsegment VMs. This gives a nice option where you can say, "Hey, this VM, show me what flows are there." I can export it out and then import it as an NSX rule and job done."
"The solution has helped improve our organization by directing the network traffic using SDN."
"I find it user-friendly and intuitive. With the GUI interface that we do use on a regular basis, it's easy to navigate, it's easy to see, easy to query. We get reports. It's easy to use."
"With this product, we can precisely identify communication patterns between virtual machines within our data center, whether it's east-east or east-west communication."
"The most valuable feature for me is the different views that you can get when selecting an application or a VLAN. It shows you the traffic flows. It gives you a visual representation of something that, in text, just may not make as much sense."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"There is occasional UI slowness and bugs."
"It would be nice to be able to graph metrics by excluding certain tags (like you can do in monitors)."
"One area where I was really looking for improvement was the CSPM product line. I had really wanted to have team-level visibility for findings, since the team managing the resources has much more context and ability to resolve the issue, as the service owner. However, this has been added to the announcement in a recent keynote."
"The documentation leaves a lot to be desired for new users."
"We need more visibility into the error tracking dashboard."
"When the logs are too big, and Datadog splits them, the JSON format breaks and it is not so useful for us."
"We need a lot of modules since we collect all data logs from all operating systems."
"More pre-configured "Monitor Alerts" would be helpful."
"I would like to see more interoperability on the firewall and low balancer sides."
"The virtual appliance has rebooted."
"I want to be able to monitor a network flow that is approximately two weeks back, but I haven't found an easy way to do this."
"The product is slightly complex use, while still being user-friendly. It could use more training modules, as it is not a straightforward product."
"The solution is very much viewer centric and it would be nice if it would transcend just the virtual infrastructure."
"The only issue we have is that the solution does not always capture the host names."
"I would like to see more reporting features, more dashboards."
"The solution can be improved by making it more compatible with other brands, allowing for better integration."
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Datadog is ranked 2nd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 137 reviews while vRealize Network Insight is ranked 23rd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 44 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while vRealize Network Insight is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vRealize Network Insight writes "Provides deep analytical insights and makes migrations efficient with dependency mapping". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas vRealize Network Insight is most compared with ThousandEyes, NETSCOUT vSTREAM, AppNeta by Broadcom, Zabbix and SolarWinds NPM. See our Datadog vs. vRealize Network Insight report.
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