We performed a comparison between Datadog and NetCrunch 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 most valuable aspects of the product include the APM and profiler."
"We have hundreds of microservices, and knowing how top-level requests weave throughout all of them is invaluable."
"I have found some of the most valuable features to be the way things all come together that gives us a point of view that is useful. The panel is very beautiful and customizable."
"It has provided visibility with ease of implementation and allowed multiple teams to quickly onboard it."
"The most valuable features of Datadog are the flexibility and additional features when compared to other solutions, such as AppDynamics and Dynatrace. Some of the features include AI and ML capabilities and cloud and analysis monitoring"
"The ability to send notifications based on metadata from the monitor is helpful."
"The solution is sufficiently stable."
"The monitoring functionality, in general, and tagging infrastructure are great."
"Reporting on NetCrunch is pretty good. It's very similar to SolarWinds. It's just a different interface. The majority of everything there was beneficial."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The product could be improved by providing remote control to agents, enabling them to execute automation and collections without requiring another automation tool or integration."
"We have contact with many customers that cover many areas, so we have cases where the infrastructure administration could be improved."
"I would like testing for data in the future."
"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."
"The documentation could be improved regarding setting up the agent properly and debugging."
"Ingesting data from various sources to monitor the log metrics of the system can always improve so that, if something goes wrong, the right teams are alerted."
"The error traceability is an area that can be improved."
"Additional metrics should be included."
"I didn't care for the role-based, permission-based options, which were not the best."
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Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 137 reviews while NetCrunch is ranked 76th in Network Monitoring Software. Datadog is rated 8.6, while NetCrunch 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 NetCrunch writes "A network monitoring platform with a useful reporting feature, but permission-based options could be better". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and AppDynamics, whereas NetCrunch is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor and Fortinet FortiSIEM. See our Datadog vs. NetCrunch report.
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