Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance vs Datadog comparison

Cisco and Datadog are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. Cisco is ranked #33 with an average rating of 9.0, while Datadog is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.6. Additionally, 100% of Cisco users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Datadog users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 1, 2024

Datadog and Accedian Skylight are advanced monitoring and performance management tools. While Datadog excels in pricing and customer support, Accedian Skylight stands out due to its superior feature set, making it a worthwhile investment for many.

Features: Datadog's robust monitoring capabilities, extensive integrations, and competitive pricing are highly valued by users. Accedian Skylight's advanced network performance metrics, superior analytics, and comprehensive feature set provide significant advantages in features.

Room for Improvement: Datadog could enhance its alerting system, improve dashboard intuitiveness, and streamline its user interface. Accedian Skylight can simplify the initial setup, enhance user training materials, and reduce the learning curve.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Datadog is praised for its seamless cloud deployment and responsive support team, offering a better user experience. Accedian Skylight faces criticism for its steeper learning curve during deployment but receives positive feedback for its specialized support.

Pricing and ROI: Datadog offers competitive pricing and strong ROI through functionality and support. Accedian Skylight’s higher pricing is justified by its comprehensive feature set, translating to substantial ROI through enhanced network performance insights.

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Juniper Mist Premium Analytics

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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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Sylvain Germe

Application and Network Performance Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Jan 9, 2023

Highly scalable, responsive support, but lacking new features

This solution is geared towards on-premise setups, and would not be useful if the company plans to move to the cloud within the next two years, such as Google Cloud for example. If the goal is to monitor bandwidth at remote sites and identify performance issues because the network is under the control, this solution is useful. However, if a company primarily uses cloud-based servers and does not manage the internet connection of its remote sites, the solution becomes less useful. I rate Accedian Skylight a seven out of ten. I have a positive opinion of the tool, but it can be challenging to set up. It is also limited in its applicability to certain use cases. I am familiar with the engineers behind the solution and have a good impression of them. However, I am not pleased with the fact that the company removed many features and raised prices after it was acquired by Accedian.

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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

"The single dashboard is a valuable feature."

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

"What I like most about Accedian Skylight is that it's a UI application, so using it is easy. I also like that the support for Accedian Skylight is helpful."

"I think the analytics features are okay. My customer also likes the interface, the GUI, because it's easy to operate."

"The solution’s UI and single pane of glass is good. The new dashboard is modern with its new design. The look of it is not pretty, but it is efficient, which is good. It is user-friendly; you can find what you need on the interface quickly."

"For us, the most valuable feature is something called TWAMP that allows for real-time traffic in a way that is 10 times lighter than things like SolarWinds. It's in the sub-milliseconds of accuracy, and you can divide tasks so that you can literally see things like the tagging for Quality of Service. That had been incorrect with the carrier, but there was no way on this planet you'd be able to tell a carrier that they're wrong. I have dozens of scenarios where we found "No, that's not right," and got it resolved instantly."

"If [the problem] is something related to HTTP or VoIP, then I can have a quick look into the protocols, a process which gives me some good ideas..."

"The feature I used to like the most was its ability to decode layer seven protocols, although this is becoming less useful now that encryption is so widespread."

"The response times, with the performance, are really interesting too, where you can see the packet loss."

"The performance of Accedian Skylight is better than other vendors."

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"The most valuable feature I have found is the elastic container service."

"Datadog has proven to be easy to set up and legible for both development and operational teams."

"Datadog dashboards are pretty great."

"Integrating Datadog with other platforms has made our monitoring processes a bit easier. It's not super simple, but it's manageable."

"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."

"The initial setup is very straightforward."

"It has a high-level insight into the infrastructure model of the application and provides important detailed data on the host and metrics, which is the main concern of our customers."

"We have found that we're able to get in and out of troubleshooting issues much more rapidly, which in turn, of course, enables us to spend more time on our products."

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Cons

"The technical support needs improvement."

"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."

"The Accedian Skylight user interface still has room for improvement."

"There should be an option to update and upgrade the solution to the new version without having to re-buy it. I have clients switching to other solutions. The old solution is great, but if you change your license to a new one, you have to almost re-buy it completely."

"The UI interface of Accedian Skylight could improve."

"Some of the Skylight applications are a little newer, and they're still moving through initial revs. There are certain bugs, but nothing is insurmountable... It will just take a little bit of time for their user interface to get a little bit better."

"It needs the possibility to export data because it is not easy to see larger data sets, e.g., for one month. It would be interesting to export data into a PDF or dashboard to keep a history of the situation."

"Because of the policies in Vietnam, we cannot connect the system to the Accedian cloud. It would be good if Accedian could provide a local cloud. In the next release, I would like them to focus on improving and adding more reporting features. This will help the operations teams."

"If you want a new version, you go to the website. The hardest part is finding the link, where is that .bin file? Sometimes it's pretty hidden in a document... it's hidden in the release notes or in another file somewhere. And it's usually not on the first page either."

"For the PVX, they are in the process of getting the results to export to cloud and SaaS for analytics. They told me that this will happen later this year. Right now, for the most part, I create that data myself."

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"Alerting timing should be improved to be more fine-tuned and exact."

"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."

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

"We need more visibility into the error tracking dashboard."

"At times, it can be hard to generate metrics out of logs."

"I would love to see support for front-end and mobile applications. Right now, it is mostly all back-end stuff. Being able to do some integration with our front-end products would be awesome."

"It could use some additional features when working with metrics like Grafana or like New Relic has. Datadog does not use library technologies like Dynatrace does. Datadog has machine learning too, but it does not have this option in all layers of monitoring like infrastructure service process in applications."

"We primarily use the log management functionality, and the only feedback I have there is better fuzzy text searching in logs (the kind that Kibana has)."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is expensive."

"The solution was previously well-regarded, but after being acquired by Accedian, the prices have significantly increased. This has made it challenging to sell the product due to its high cost. It is an expensive solution."

"It provides value and the cost is not huge."

"The pricing is cheaper than other competing products, which is better for our budgets."

"It's not for free, clearly. But on the other hand, it offers very interesting functionality. We pay around €100,000."

"We understand there's a significant cost difference, but have yet to investigate fully."

"Pricing is a little bit expensive."

"If you look into Riverbed, it's a licensing nightmare. You need to pay for every type of analysis... If you don't look into licensing, Riverbed and SolarWinds are pretty comparable. But if you look into licensing it would not be smart to go for either of them. On the pure, bare-metal basis, it's the same. But when you get the bare metal and a few basic licenses, then you need all those other licenses just to be sure that there's no issue... One of the great things about Skylight is you have them all, and you actually need them all."

"The pricing of Accedian Skylight is really good. The sensors are low cost. Their model to analytics for sensors is by license, endpoint, or session. With the probes for their analytics, if they get deployed virtually, they are free. The licensing is only based on flows. So, you can effectively deploy probes everywhere in your network. Then, if you want to look at a specific type of traffic, you can enter into it with a very low cost license. You can just use things like spam ports, mirrors, TAPs, and aggregators to optimize what sort of traffic you send to these analysis tools. Then, if you want to start looking at more, you can up your licensed as you go. You are not getting forced into expensive appliances or subscription models."

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"They prefer monthly subscriptions."

"The tool is open-source."

"It has always scaled for us. Cost scales up too, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. It's reasonable for what they're providing."

"Pricing is somewhat affordable compared to other solutions but in order to really lower the costs of other products you need to plan very carefully your resources usage, otherwise, it can get expensive real quick."

"Licensing is based on the retention period of logs and metrics."

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

"The solution's pricing depends on project volume."

"The price of Datadog is reasonable. Other solutions are more expensive, such as AppDynamics."

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Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

12%

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40%

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Educational Organization

35%

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Juniper Mist Premium Analytics?

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

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Juniper Mist Premium Analytics?

The solution is expensive. I rate the pricing an eight out of ten.

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What needs improvement with Juniper Mist Premium Analytics?

The technical support needs improvement.

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What do you like most about Accedian Skylight?

The feature I used to like the most was its ability to decode layer seven protocols, although this is becoming less u...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Accedian Skylight?

The solution was previously well-regarded, but after being acquired by Accedian, the prices have significantly increa...

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What needs improvement with Accedian Skylight?

There should be an option to update and upgrade the solution to the new version without having to re-buy it. I have c...

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There are many factors and we know little about your requirements (size of org, technology stack, management systems,...

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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.

Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance offers real-time application and network performance monitoring, VPN management, and network diagnostics across multiple sites.

Organizations use Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance for active and passive monitoring, stress testing, and troubleshooting performance issues. Deployed both on-premise and in the cloud, it supports IT infrastructure, security, and analytics with end-to-end performance measurement across cloud data centers. The modern, intuitive interface features TWAMP for real-time traffic accuracy and standardized reports, along with insightful dashboards for circuit performance, latency, jitter, and throughput monitoring.

What are the most important features?

TWAMP: Provides real-time traffic accuracy and standardized reporting.
Insightful Dashboards: Monitor circuit performance, latency, jitter, and throughput.
Security Integration: Compatible with tools like Splunk for enhanced security.
Application Support: Facilitates comprehensive network performance analysis.

What benefits or ROI should users look for in reviews?

Quick Corrective Actions: Immediate response capabilities for performance issues.
Easy Navigation: User-friendly layouts simplify monitoring and troubleshooting.
Comprehensive Analytics: Advanced tools for in-depth network performance insights.
Cloud and On-Premise Options: Flexible deployment to meet different needs.

In industries like finance and healthcare, Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance ensures robust performance monitoring and quick diagnostics for VPNs and internet lines. It aids in maintaining the integrity and security of data transference, facilitating active and passive monitoring, stress testing, and performance troubleshooting across geographically dispersed locations, ensuring seamless operation and compliance with industry standards.

Datadog is a unified platform for cloud performance monitoring, log aggregation, APM, synthetic testing, security monitoring, and observability solutions for organizations monitoring AWS resources, applications, and more.

By combining powerful dashboards, logs, and metrics, Datadog simplifies cloud performance monitoring and incident management. It offers easy integration with AWS, flexible visualization capabilities, comprehensive APM features, and efficient log aggregation. Organizations leverage Datadog to monitor EC2, ECS, RDS, ElastiCache, Kubernetes, and other platforms, with integrations such as Slack, PagerDuty, and Terraform enhancing the incident management process. Centralized monitoring, real-time tracing, and detailed reporting ensure thorough system oversight.

What are Datadog's most important features?

Dashboards: Customizable dashboards providing valuable visualization and data analytics.
APM: Application performance monitoring to track application health and performance.
Log Aggregation: Efficient log collection and analysis from different sources.
Cloud Monitoring: Seamless integration for monitoring cloud resources and services.
Synthetic Testing: Proactive testing to detect issues before they affect users.
Integrations: Extensive tool integrations with services like Slack, PagerDuty, and Terraform.

What benefits should users look for?

Centralized Monitoring: Comprehensive monitoring of different components in one place.
Customizable Dashboards: Flexibility to create dashboards that fit specific needs.
Efficient Alerting: Timely alerts that improve incident response and resolution.
Real-time Monitoring: Live data tracking for proactive issue management.
Detailed Tracing: In-depth application and infrastructure traceability.
Comprehensive Reporting: Detailed insights fostering better system oversight.

In industries like finance, healthcare, and retail, Datadog implements robust monitoring solutions to oversee critical infrastructure and applications. By leveraging its powerful APM, log aggregation, and alerting capabilities, organizations can ensure high availability, security, and performance of their digital services. Integration with AWS and other platforms helps maintain visibility and streamline operations across cloud environments, enhancing productivity and operational efficiency. Emphasizing customization and flexibility, Datadog assists in meeting specific monitoring needs and improving incident management processes in specialized industries.

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T-Systems, Thomson Reuters, Bordeaux Metropole, CGI, Citadelle Regional Hospital Center, Lorraine Institute of Oncology, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Groupe BPCE, Group S, Splitpoint, Horus-Net, Audatex, Indexis, Province de Liège, EASI, Spie Batignolles, Faymonville

Adobe, Samsung, facebook, HP Cloud Services, Electronic Arts, salesforce, Stanford University, CiTRIX, Chef, zendesk, Hearst Magazines, Spotify, mercardo libre, Slashdot, Ziff Davis, PBS, MLS, The Motley Fool, Politico, Barneby's

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