We performed a comparison between Datadog and Ixia Hawkeye 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."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The web app has a real-time support chat window in which a support engineer is chatting with you within a minute."
"Most of the features in the way Datadog does monitoring are commendable and that is the reason we choose it. We did some comparisons before picking Datadog. Datadog was recommended based on the features provided."
"Datadog agents act as an integration to different services, providing easy access and management."
"With Datadog I can look at the health of the technology stack and services."
"The performance of Datadog is good."
"It is easy to navigate the menu and create tests."
"We have been able to set very specific CPU and memory alerts, at the very base level, then we started to pull real business value, like 99th percentile response rates for our API calls."
"The solution allows flexibility and heightened observability for presenting data, creating indicators, and setting service-level objectives."
"The ease of setup is the most valuable aspect of this solution. It's easy to set up and run tests."
"Our customer was happiest with the price of this product."
"The most valuable feature is the deployment because it's very easy to deploy real flow through the network."
"It empowers network administrators to access specialized and detailed views for specific tests, including video streaming and performance related to specific applications like video games."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I sometimes log in and see items changed, either in the UI or a feature enabled. To see it for the first time without proper communication can sometimes come as a shock."
"More granular control over dashboard sharing. Timeboard sharing."
"At times, it can be hard to generate metrics out of logs."
"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)."
"There is occasional UI slowness and bugs."
"I would like testing for data in the future."
"Sometimes it’s difficult to customize certain queries to find specific things, specifically with the logging solution."
"We would like to see some versioning system for the Synthetic Tests so that we could have a backup of our tests since they are time-consuming to make and very easy to damage in a moment of error."
"You can't delete more than one thing at a time. It would be great to be able to highlight three out of five things and delete them, whether it's a test or an actual report."
"Improvements in network performance are essential."
"Ixia has one flaw, which is that they do not print the license code on the paper licenses that are shipped to the customers."
"The customization of tests and even the results can be improved."
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Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 137 reviews while Ixia Hawkeye is ranked 53rd in Network Monitoring Software with 4 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Ixia Hawkeye is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Ixia Hawkeye writes "A valuable tool for optimizing network performance and security with comprehensive network monitoring capabilities, user-friendly interface, and flexibility for scripting". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas Ixia Hawkeye is most compared with ThousandEyes, NETSCOUT nGeniusONE and Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline. See our Datadog vs. Ixia Hawkeye report.
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