We performed a comparison between Datadog, SolarWinds NPM, and VMware Aria Operations for Applications based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in IT Infrastructure Monitoring."It helps us better manage our logs."
"We have a better grasp of what is occurring during the deployment cycle. If something fails, we have an idea what has failed, where it has failed, and how it failed to better mitigate the situation."
"The web app has a real-time support chat window in which a support engineer is chatting with you within a minute."
"Datadog agents act as an integration to different services, providing easy access and management."
"It has a nice UI."
"APM is great and has provided low-effort out-of-the-box observability for various services."
"The most valuable aspect is the APM which can monitor the metrics and latencies."
"We have hundreds of microservices, and knowing how top-level requests weave throughout all of them is invaluable."
"From web interfaces to custom monitors and alarms, this product has a high level of flexibility that can be molded to suit your business needs, regardless of the size of your organization."
"The solution is extremely stable. We haven't had any issues in that regard. We haven't had issues with bugs, glitches, or crashes."
"SolarWinds' network and server application monitoring features are strong."
"The ability to customize the views and dashboards is nice. SolarWinds also allows us to access the data via the API. That's probably the feature I liked the most."
"The connectivity of the solution is very good."
"The most important feature is reporting. The reports that are generated are useful and they save a lot of time with respect to monitoring."
"The stability is fantastic."
"SolarWinds NPM is a scalable solution since it can handle a huge number of users."
"No issues with stability."
"This solution allows me to have true visibility for any metrics when it comes to my cloud, and private."
"The most valuable aspects of the solution are its ease of use and its ease of implementation."
"Tanzu itself, integrated with multiple solutions, bestows support and security upon a container platform, especially when it comes to managing open-source container platforms such as Kubernetes."
"People are very pleased with the implementation."
"The features I find most valuable is the querying and alerting capabilities."
"VMware comes with a support team, and if you have trouble, you can easily create a ticket, and VMware will help you. Therefore, the best aspect is the support."
"The solution is great for virtualization and preparing the infrastructure in Tanzu to test products. It's very fast and has good visibility."
"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."
"Billing should be more transparent."
"I think better access to their engineers when we have a problem could be better."
"It does not have the best interface."
"There is always room for improvement when dealing with cloud-based technologies. Mainly, I would say, it's just increasing our offerings to attract various other types of industries and businesses across more fields."
"Once agents are connected to the Datadog portal, we should be able to upgrade them quickly."
"I often have issues with the UI in my browser."
"We would really like to see more from the Service Catalog."
"There should be a little bit more integration in some of the other tooling and utilizing the APIs of devices or tools could be a little bit better."
"I think Solar Winds NPM needs to create a profile with documentation responsibility."
"Technical support and releases are not particularly reliable."
"The solution's network discovery and node addition processes need more work."
"The console could be more user-friendly. It would be better if SolarWinds updated the user interface."
"One of the challenges with SolarWinds is that in order to pull the data, we have to have a lot of false positives."
"We also had to be attentive to vulnerabilities, because SolarWinds NPM have some issues in that area. We had to work with our security team, so that they could help us check and backup the data, and check what they needed to secure."
"The integration needs to be improved."
"The main problem I have is that the license cost is very high."
"They could make it more easy to plug-in data so that a nontechnical person will be able to use it, like accountants or finance people. That way they don't have to ask us."
"The initial setup should be easier and more seamless."
"The implementation is a long process that should be improved."
"In the new version, I would love to see more prediction capabilities. It would be great if one could see the alerts get a little more enriched with information and become more human-friendly instead of the technical stuff that they put in there. I think those would be really awesome outcomes to get."
"I would like to see integration with Kubernetes cluster and APIs so that you can manage the entire stack."
"It could use a URL document server. Everything in the market is moving towards automation and everybody's looking for the single click operations as well relational data locality."
"The documentation and integration with Kubernetes could be improved."
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