We performed a comparison between Datadog and NETSCOUT nGeniusONE 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."
"Datadog has clear dashboards and good documentation."
"We find they have a very helpful alert system."
"They have a very good foundation in capturing metrics, logs, and traces. It's a very nice tool for that and it allows you to apply these monitoring tools in almost any technology."
"The most valuable aspects of the product include the APM and profiler."
"I find the greatest feature is being able to search across logs from various microservices."
"The seamless integration between Datadog and hundreds of apps makes onboarding new products and teams a breeze."
"The application performance monitoring is pretty good."
"Sometimes it's more user friendly for development teams. There are some parts of Datadog that are more understandable for development teams. For example, the APM in Datadog works more manually and works like the tools in New Relic or Grafana, or Elastic. It is easier to understand for software development teams."
"The most valuable features are visibility, real-time, on-demand."
"Deep packet inspection is probably the strongest feature."
"If one of our network pipes is getting plugged up by somebody using too much bandwidth, we can use the NETSCOUT tool to examine and find out what is going on."
"The solution transforms packet wire data into real-time data that is actionable. It helps us with faster detection of issues and allows us to create alerts."
"Valuable features include data threat detection, network analytics, and overall bandwidth monitoring."
"It is a scalable product."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is being able to drill down into any kind of troubles that are reported to us, by use of identifiers."
"The most valuable feature is visibility."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"We need more visibility into the error tracking dashboard."
"Alerting timing should be improved to be more fine-tuned and exact."
"For three to four months, we have been experiencing real-time delays. For example, if we're monitoring incoming traffic, the real-time status should be displayed up to a certain point. However, due to delays or issues with Datadog, the real-time data might only be updated at an earlier time. We are experiencing consistent delays in data updates from Datadog, with the most recent data often being delayed by about an hour. This issue has been ongoing for the past four months."
"I found the documentation can sometimes be confusing."
"To be very fair, I haven't had enough experience with Datadog to pick out improvements."
"Geo-data is also something very critical that we hope to see in the future."
"We have contact with many customers that cover many areas, so we have cases where the infrastructure administration could be improved."
"The error traceability is an area that can be improved."
"The current solution is not easy to scale, because it is an appliance-based solution. So, you have to swap everything out."
"For individual subscriber tracings, sometimes it does not capture all the messages. There is a little bit of room for improvement there."
"A lot of tools highlight what's going on but they don't actually pinpoint the user experience. It would be good if there were a small message or something highlighting what the user experience is like and any degradation that's actually occurring."
"NETSCOUT nGeniusONE can improve the detection of what area of the infrastructure could be having an issue, such as an application, server, or network. It needs to find evidence of a fault."
"There is currently less visibility or GUI to analyse the packet for troubleshooting purposes."
"We would like more encryption of customer data, because we have a very security conscious company. We have a lot of regulation coming in which requires us to make customer data private."
"In previous versions, we used to have an icon on the dashboard when the situation analysis would present an alert. It would be nice if that would be made available on the dashboard again. Something that could be customizable to only illuminate on certain applications."
"The feature I am looking for is the Arbor technology, especially to run in parallel with our firewall... It's getting there."
Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 137 reviews while NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is ranked 27th in Network Monitoring Software with 47 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NETSCOUT nGeniusONE writes "We use it every day for the triaging of events, saving us a lot of time". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and AppDynamics, whereas NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is most compared with Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline, Dynatrace, ThousandEyes, AppDynamics and SolarWinds NPM. See our Datadog vs. NETSCOUT nGeniusONE report.
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