We performed a comparison between Datadog and vRealize Network Insight based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring 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 single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"The ability to send notifications based on metadata from the monitor is helpful."
"Integrating Datadog with other platforms has made our monitoring processes a bit easier. It's not super simple, but it's manageable."
"The solution allows flexibility and heightened observability for presenting data, creating indicators, and setting service-level objectives."
"The tools are powerful and intuitive to set up."
"Overall, the Data UI and the usability of customer features continue to improve."
"Datadog is constantly adding new features."
"Flame graphs are pretty useful for understanding how GraphQL resolves our federated queries when it comes to identifying slow points in our requests. In our microservice environment with 170 services."
"The most valuable aspect is the APM which can monitor the metrics and latencies."
"It allows us to see how the network devices function as well as to see network glitches or fluctuations or dropping of packets."
"Whenever we say "valuable" with respect to the network, it's more towards the security. The firewall rule issues it shows us and the recommendations that we get from vRNI are the most valuable features because they are actually making our network more secure."
"The graphical interface of this environment is so good with all the views, the graphics, and everything in them. It's really easy for me. It doesn't need an engineer to work on it. It's easy enough that anyone can get into the environment and look for issues or look at how communication is going on across the VMs. It's pretty much straightforward."
"The ability to use the natural language query and see the visualization is quickly intuitive, and it works very well."
"The solution has helped improve our organization by directing the network traffic using SDN."
"It has definitely helped us to meet compliance rules by assuring that all traffic is going to where it's supposed to go. It can be used to report that you are in compliance, as well as helping you get into compliance."
"The best feature of this application is its ability to capture everything within the same application, as well as capture all the traffic."
"I like being able to see the flows coming in and out of the product. In terms of monitoring network flows, we use it to verify whether or not different servers/applications should be communicating with each other."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"I've found that the documentation is lacking in certain regards."
"As a new customer, the Datadog user interface is a bit daunting."
"Datadog lacks a deeper application-level insight. Their competitors had eclipsed them in offering ET functionality that was important to us. That's why we stopped using it and switched to New Relic. Datadog's price is also high."
"We would like to see smaller or shorter tutorials and video sessions."
"The on-premise version is very difficult to upgrade."
"I'm not sure if Datadog can monitor K8s deployments in real-time. For instance, being able to see a deployment step by step visually. This would be helpful if there were any incidents during the deployment."
"We want to reduce having to go to different screens to obtain all the information."
"Alerting timing should be improved to be more fine-tuned and exact."
"There is room for improvement when it comes to pricing because we pay here in Brazil, and all the costs are based on the dollar."
"When we talk about those micro-segmentation rules, there's an Export function. It is very macro-segmentation oriented instead. So if you choose an application, it will find the tiers within that application and say that it's communicating on, say, port 80 to a separate VLAN. There might be 200 machines in that other VLAN. You don't want to open port 80 at all of them. So we need a lot more granularity in those suggested firewall rules."
"I would like to see them expand the capabilities to infrastructure types other than just VMware."
"I want to be able to monitor a network flow that is approximately two weeks back, but I haven't found an easy way to do this."
"The product is slightly complex use, while still being user-friendly. It could use more training modules, as it is not a straightforward product."
"The IT infrastructure industry is expected to evolve towards a hybrid cloud model in the next five to ten years. In this model, most of the customer's resources reside on-premise within a private cloud setup, such as VMware. Another segment operates within public cloud environments like Azure and AWS, and a portion remains in traditional data centers. There should be seamless interoperability between public and private clouds. AWS and VMware need to work together to make it possible. Whether users interact with on-premise infrastructure or configure resources in the public cloud, the user experience must be seamless."
"There are some random glitches in the Web UI, but they are usually pretty cosmetic in nature. I don't really seem to use any browser other than Chrome with it. I also get some weird errors from time to time on the hardware NetFlow Collectors, where it doesn't sync data."
"I'd like to see better support for being able to search the hardware NetFlow data. It ingests fairly well, but you can't tell, in a lot of cases, what source the data came from. I'd like to see more support for picking specific sources. That way you could really make a compelling use case. There are also some difficulties where it can't exactly trace the path between source and destination but if you hit the reverse flow on the same search it shows the entire path."
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Datadog is ranked 2nd in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 137 reviews while vRealize Network Insight is ranked 24th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 44 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while vRealize Network Insight is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vRealize Network Insight writes "Provides deep analytical insights and makes migrations efficient with dependency mapping". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas vRealize Network Insight is most compared with ThousandEyes, NETSCOUT vSTREAM, AppNeta by Broadcom, Zabbix and SolarWinds NPM. See our Datadog vs. vRealize Network Insight report.
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