Auvik Network Management (ANM) vs Datadog comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 29, 2023

We compared Auvik and Datadog across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:

Features: Auvik excels in SNMP and WMI communication, syslog centralization, and live topology mapping. The solution offers NetFlow monitoring as well as backup and configuration management. Datadog users like its customizable displays, error tracking, and advanced AI/ML capabilities.
Room for Improvement: Auvik users would like more flexibility to customize reporting and dashboards. Reviews also suggested improvements in probe deployment and integration with third-party products. Datadog could enhance its usability and reduce its learning curve. Users said integration was another pain point.
Service and Support: Auvik's customer service is highly rated. Users said it’s convenient to contact support through the platform, and responses are fast. Some noted that problems are typically resolved in a single phone call without the need to escalate. While many users spoke highly of Datadog’s support team, others reported slow support responses, especially in the Asia-Pacific region.
Ease of Deployment: Auvik's setup is simple, fast, and customizable, with clear instructions. Datadog’s setup is considered straightforward, and users often receive help from a partner or vendor.
Pricing: Auvik’s pricing structure is considered reasonable and competitive. Licensing is based on the number of billable devices, and users have control over which devices are billed. Opinions about Datadog's price are divided. Some users found it costly, but others thought it was acceptable. Some said the pricing model could be clearer and better explained.
ROI: Auvik users said the solution saves time, improves efficiency, and reduces costs through automation and better insights. Users said Datadog saved them time and improved visibility into security blind spots.

Comparison Results: Auvik is a user-friendly option for network monitoring and troubleshooting. The solution stands out for its support and ease of navigation. Users like its topology maps and centralized log information. Some users noted that Auvik’s dashboard could be more customizable and suggested that it could improve probe deployment. Datadog is praised for its customizability, easy setup, and robust AI features, but some users say it has room for improvement in areas like usability and integration. Datadog’s pricing and customer service received mixed reviews.

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Auvik Network Management (ANM) vs. Datadog

July 2024

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Juniper Mist Premium Analytics

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2024, in the Cloud Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of Juniper Mist Premium Analytics is 0.1%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Auvik Network Management (ANM) is 2.3%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Datadog is 9.9%, down from 10.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Shiva_Prasad

Senior Technical Consultant at Black Box Network Services

Jan 25, 2024

A cloud solution for warehousing with a troubleshooting feature

The initial setup is straightforward. It's based on user requirements. We also conduct heat mapping using a couple of tools. The only requirement is to understand the technical or configuration aspects from the user's end and then configure it. Mist takes no more than 15 to 20 minutes for a particular deployment. You need to understand the end user's environment and have a concrete plan on whether it's a greenfield installation or an existing one, considering the density and height. Based on that, we need to develop a passive heat map. Then, you need to discuss with the user to understand exactly what needs to be configured and what they require in their environment. Based on that, you can proceed with the installation. Additionally, you can perform post-installation heat mapping to ensure it matches the earlier heat map. I rate the initial setup an eight out of ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy.

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Liloe De Jong

Service Engineer at Progression IT Business Solutions B.V.

Jul 4, 2024

Helps with the overview of every switch or router in a location

Auvik Network Management really helps with the overview of every switch or router in a location. We tried other programs, but they just didn't work the same as Auvik. Auvik provides an intuitive interface that is quite easy to navigate. It helps a lot because I can quickly diagnose the problem, which saves me a lot of time and a lot of money for the client. It has empowered our entry-level technicians to solve more tickets on their own. Managers only need to explain the solution once, and then everybody understands how it works. Auvik is a time saver and money saver for everybody. The solution is easy to navigate. Auvik has helped to decrease our mean time to resolution by five to ten minutes per problem. The time-to-value is a lot better than that of other solutions. It took about a month from the time of deployment of Auvik for us to realize the time-to-value benefits. Critical devices in our network are monitored by Auvik at no charge. This free monitoring is important to us because it shows that Auvik cares about us. We can know for sure that if we have a month that doesn't go very well, the critical devices will still be okay. Auvik allows us to spend less time on the solution's setup and maintenance. It saves a lot of time because the solution's setup is easy. It doesn't require a lot of steps, and you can explain it to an apprentice very easily, which saves much time. We used the time saved to ensure that all the smaller problems were also addressed. We could use the time we saved to ask the clients what they think about this new setup.

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reviewer2045070

Software Engineering Manager at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

Dec 6, 2022

Great CI visibility, logging, and monitoring

The most valuable aspects of the solution include: CI visibility, which helps us in making sure our CI systems are running efficiently and are not blocking our developers from releasing new software and fixing bugs. Logs, which help us in debugging issues where we can search for logs and can make sure they are relevant to the issues we are looking at. APM, which can help us to stay on top of our applications by giving us the confidence that our apps are running. Monitoring. We use monitoring a lot to ensure we know about potential issues and fix them before they affect our customers.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."

"The single dashboard is a valuable feature."

"I really like the network map. It's probably the most useful feature because we have monitoring set up in other systems too, but seeing what's connected to what and where it is makes a lot of things a lot easier to troubleshoot."

"Auvik has decreased our mean time to resolution. It's easier to find the devices on the network and pull out the information. Of course, the SNMP is also good to get the logs. It helps in the network debugging or if we have to find any problems."

"The most valuable features are the syslog tool and the nearly invaluable network map."

"If we get an Internet outage or device goes down, it really helps gain better visibility as to what's happening with our different branch offices and to know if there's a potential issue that might mean I need to get in the car and drive down."

"Its network discovery capabilities are very impressive. The discovery piece is amazing. I don't know if they have an AI or some type of advanced intelligence inside of their program that helps with the discovery piece. I haven't seen anything that discovers products that well and is able to label them, tag them, and pull as much information about them. I don't know what drives that engine, but I'm just absolutely blown away by it. It is cool."

"The primary reason I wanted Auvik was SNMP. It discovers all the MIBs and pulls them. That's how it can monitor the things that other platforms don't."

"Automatic alerting is probably the most valuable."

"I like having a remote tunnel where I can access web interfaces inside a network, whether it's a DVR, an NDR camera system, a printer interface, or an IoT device that has a local web interface. I love being able to tunnel in straight through Auvik instead of having to VPN in or remote to another. It's more straightforward and makes troubleshooting that device more accessible."

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"The solution has improved the organization by providing good insights into app performance and offering good dashboards."

"We've been able to glean from the monitors what servers are down, and can alert the team in Slack."

"Profiling has been made easier."

"Its integration is most valuable because you can integrate it with various service providers such as AWS, .Net, etc."

"Thanks to the logs, we manage to make better reports through Jira and also to trace the request with more facility than we would be able to do otherwise."

"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."

"The ingestion points are unlimited and support customization. We haven't had anything yet that we haven't been able to integrate with it."

"The CCM, Workflows, Logs, APM, and RUM are all useful aspects of the solution."

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Cons

"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."

"The technical support needs improvement."

"I would like to use different network protocols that we could implement."

"The network map and dashboard can be difficult at times because they do not scale very well. You have to either view the map itself or the dashboard itself."

"One thing I would like to see is more functionality designed for managed services, such as multi-tenancy, to better manage things from an MSP perspective."

"Automatic configuration backups would be an excellent feature for network devices and access points. The solution could take a backup of the configurations weekly and store that, which would be very nice."

"Some of the discovery methodologies could be improved upon. It removes the device that is offline, but when that gets added back, if there is any custom information saved for that device, such as it's a smartphone, you have to change and reenter the information all over again. It would be nice to not have to manually modify certain devices that get added to the network."

"Setting up the maintenance windows can be a bit complicated."

"I wish there was a way to reduce the cost somehow."

"It needs flexibility for the pooling of information. Because it is fully automated, it is pooling everything from the device from a given category. There is no way to exclude things that are not important or if you want to temporarily remove them to see statistics of other things. For example, we get about 100 MB from Auvik. We are unable to limit this. We would rather stop monitoring something, since some features will always give you alerts, because they shouldn't be monitored. However, it is impossible to exclude them, e.g., the internal interface. If somebody disconnects the device from the internal interface, we get an alert. So, this is something that is really painful for us. More flexibility would solve most of our issues."

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"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."

"More pre-configured "Monitor Alerts" would be helpful."

"While I like the ease of use, when compared with Tenable Nessus they could still improve their usability."

"It can be overwhelming for new people as it has a lot of features."

"Datadog could make their use cases more visible either through their docs or tutorial videos."

"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."

"It can have a more modernized pricing mechanism. We're actually working with them to figure out how to become more modular and have a better and more modernized pricing mechanism. The issue with Datadog is that you have to buy the whole suite of different products, and you kind of get stuck in the old utilization of 40% of their suite. Most organizations today break down between application development, networking, and security. Therefore, there should be a way to break down different modules into just app dev, infosec, networking, etc. Customers have various needs across their business lines, and sometimes, they're just not willing to have tools that they're not using 100%. AppDynamics is probably a little bit better in terms of being modular."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is expensive."

"I believe the product is fairly priced, but I would consider it a better value if it were improved in certain areas."

"Auvik is not cheap. They've done a great job, it's a developed product, but you pay for it. When you compare, it's definitely in the upper-tier of pricing."

"I find Auvik's pricing to be a good value for the features offered."

"Relative to others, it is affordable. It is not terrible. The Performance licensing is a little expensive for what you get, but the standard licensing is fine."

"Their licensing model is basically per managed device. You pay X amount per managed device, and managed devices are limited to switches, routers, firewalls, and wireless LAN controllers. So, the only things that we pay for are our switches, routers, firewalls, and wireless LAN controllers, but there are orders of magnitude more devices that Auvik manages that we don't pay for. It also manages servers, workstations, and phones. Auvik will gather KPIs from anything that is connected to the network if it can be managed via a standard like SNMP or WMI. There are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees."

"They charge for switches and some networking hardware, but everything else is free."

"Auvik's pricing is very competitive compared to other network management solutions."

"Auvik tends to be on the pricier side."

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"Pricing seems reasonable. It depends on the size of your organization, the size of your infrastructure, and what portion of your overall business costs go toward infrastructure."

"This solution is budget friendly."

"It has a module-based pricing model."

"The price is better than some competing products."

"The solution is fairly priced but history and log storage can get costly depending on your needs."

"Sometimes it's very hard to project how much it will cost for the monthly subscription for the next month when you add certain features. Having better visibility of the cost would give a better experience."

"While it is an expensive product, I would rate the pricing level at four out of five."

"It didn't scale well from the cost perspective. We had a custom package deal."

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What needs improvement with Juniper Mist Premium Analytics?

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The most valuable feature for us in Auvik is the network topology.

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Overview

Juniper Mist Premium Analytics is a comprehensive network analytics solution that provides organizations with valuable insights into their network performance and user experience. The primary use case of this product is to enable IT teams to proactively monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize their network infrastructure.

The most valuable functionality of Juniper Mist Premium Analytics is its AI-driven insights and recommendations. Leveraging machine learning algorithms, it analyzes vast amounts of network data to identify anomalies, predict potential issues, and suggest remediation actions. This proactive approach helps organizations minimize network downtime, improve user experience, and optimize network performance.

By providing real-time visibility into network performance, Juniper Mist Premium Analytics helps organizations quickly identify and resolve network issues. It offers detailed analytics on network traffic, application performance, and user behavior, allowing IT teams to pinpoint the root cause of problems and take immediate action. This not only reduces troubleshooting time but also enhances overall network reliability.

Furthermore, Juniper Mist Premium Analytics enables organizations to optimize their network infrastructure. It provides insights into network capacity utilization, application usage patterns, and user behavior, allowing IT teams to make informed decisions about network design, resource allocation, and capacity planning. This helps organizations to ensure that their network is efficiently utilized and can support the growing demands of their users.

Auvik is a network management software that provides real-time visibility and control over network infrastructure.

It automates network mapping, monitoring, and troubleshooting, allowing IT teams to easily identify and resolve issues.

With its intuitive interface and powerful features, Auvik helps businesses optimize their network performance and ensure smooth operations.

Datadog is a cloud monitoring solution that is designed to assist administrators, IT teams, and other members of an organization who are charged with keeping a close eye on their networks. Administrators can use Datadog to set real-time alerts and schedule automated report generation. They can deal with issues as they arise and keep up to date with the overall health of their network while still being able to focus on other tasks. Users can also track the historical performance of their networks and ensure that they operate at the highest possible level.

Datadog Benefits

Some of the ways that organizations can benefit by deploying Datadog include:

Gain an integrated view of the services and programs that IT teams are employing across their networks. Users can view and monitor all of the disparate programs that they have running across their networks with this one solution. They can track these programs across the entirety of the data’s life cycle.

Analyze and utilize massive amounts of data in real time. Datadog’s dashboards gather data in real time. Administrators can utilize their network’s data the minute that it becomes relevant to them. Decisions can be made based on the most current information available.

Keep your cloud network secured against digital threats. Datadog enables users to create alerts that will notify the minute that threats arise. IT teams and administrators can rapidly address any issue that comes up and prevent any existing problem from growing worse.

Easily get it up and running. Users can set up Datadog, configure it, and employ API integrations to connect it to external solutions with ease.

Datadog Features

Customizable and prefabricated monitoring dashboards. Administrators are supplied with two different types of dashboards that they can choose from when they are setting up Datadog. They can customize the dashboards to fit any specialized monitoring need. Additionally, users can choose to use prefabricated dashboards that come with the solution.

Disaster recovery feature. Datadog has a built-in feature that enables organizations to continue functioning if some disaster strikes their network. If the network suffers damage, Datadog can restore lost data and infrastructure. Should a digital threat do damage to the network, Datadog ensures that the damage is not irreparable.

Vulnerability scanning tool. Users can keep ahead of threats to their networks by employing Datadog’s vulnerability scanning feature. This tool scans the entirety of a user’s network and warns them if a vulnerability is detected. Users can then move to patch these holes in their security before the threat to their network can escalate.

Reviews from Real Users

Datadog is a solution that stands out when compared to many of its competitors. It can offer organizations many advantages. Two major advantages are the dashboards that users can create and the monitoring capability that it gives system administrators.

A senior manager in charge of site reliability engineering at Extra Space Storage writes, “The dashboards we created are core indicators of the health of our system, and it is one of the most reliable sources we have turned to, especially as we have seen APM metrics impacted several times lately. We can usually rely on logs to tell us what the apps are doing.”

Housecall Pro’s senior director of DevOps writes, “We value the monitoring capability since it allows us to be pushed alerts, rather than having to observe graphs continually.”

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