We performed a comparison between Datadog and NETSCOUT vSTREAM 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."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The dashboards and the performance of the software have been great."
"Datadog has so far been a breeze to use and set up."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboards that are provided out of the box, as well as ones we were able to configure."
"The most valuable features are logging, the extensive set of integrations, and easy jumpstart."
"I have found error reporting and log centralization the most valuable features. Overall, Datadog provides a full package solution."
"Datadog is constantly adding new features."
"It has saved us a lot of trouble in implementation."
"The full stack of integrations made it easier to monitor the different technologies and platform providers, including Software as a Service providers, that otherwise would need a lot of work and customization to be able to see what is happening."
"One of the valuable features is the packet decoding."
"vSTREAM gives us better visibility and reporting about our network infrastructure, allowing for cost-optimization."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The product needs to have more enterprise approach to configuration."
"It would be great if usage metrics were automatically created and we could create custom metrics, instead we ended up building some of our own stuff to track and alert on our own usage."
"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."
"It is very difficult to make the solutions fit perfectly for large organizations, especially in terms of high cardinality objects and multi-tenancy, where the data needs to be rolled up to a summarized level while maintaining its individual data granularity and identifiers."
"While the tool is robust with many different capabilities, users would greatly benefit from more examples in the documentation."
"The pricing is a bit confusing."
"I would like the tooling to have better integration in Slack, specifically sending out reminders to the relevant people to take breaks, do a retrospective, and specify with emojis which messages to log."
"The menu on the left is pretty dense (and I know it has to be). I never knew about the cmd+k functionality until recently. It would be helpful to offer more tips/cheat sheets to see handy shortcuts like that."
"I would like to see improvements made to the user guide."
"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."
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Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 137 reviews while NETSCOUT vSTREAM is ranked 73rd 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 Elastic Observability, whereas NETSCOUT vSTREAM is most compared with vRealize Network Insight, Arista Data ANalyZer, Azure Network Watcher and NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG. See our Datadog vs. NETSCOUT vSTREAM report.
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