We performed a comparison between Datadog and InfoVista 5View NetFlow based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."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."
"I really enjoy the RUM monitoring features of Datadog. It allows us to monitor user behavior in a way we couldn't before."
"It is easy to implement and scale applications with standardized visibility, monitoring and alerting"
"The visibility into our network has allowed for quick diagnosis of failures, identification of underutilized or over-utilized resources, and allowed for cloud cost optimization opportunities."
"Datadog is providing efficiency in the products we develop for the wireless device engineering department."
"The platform appeals to companies spanning many industries on a global scale."
"Integrating Datadog with other platforms has made our monitoring processes a bit easier. It's not super simple, but it's manageable."
"Datadog has so far been a breeze to use and set up."
"InfoVista 5View NetFlow allows us to control the application layer and manage API connections, i.e. Facebook logins or whatever other third-party API services we require."
"As a new customer, the Datadog user interface is a bit daunting."
"Datadog does not have the feature where you can monitor external websites or check the SSL secure for websites."
"I find the training great. That said, it is set for the LCD (lowest common denominator). Of course, this is very helpful to sell the product, yet, to really utilize the product, you need to get more detailed."
"It could probably be a little bit of a better user experience."
"It lacks consistency in the APIs."
"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."
"Could be a little more user friendly."
"The documentation leaves a lot to be desired for new users."
"A little bit better documentation on the details is needed because this subject is not easy sometimes to understand, which limits the capability of the software."
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Datadog is ranked 1st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 137 reviews while InfoVista 5View NetFlow is ranked 63rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability. Datadog is rated 8.6, while InfoVista 5View NetFlow is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of InfoVista 5View NetFlow writes "Great for service discovery and load balancing and enables us to monitor the traffic flow". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas InfoVista 5View NetFlow is most compared with Catchpoint.
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