G2 Vendor Directory

NETSCOUT Network & Application Observability vs. Datadog

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricNETSCOUT Network & Application Observability

by NETSCOUT

Datadog

by Datadog

Overall rating4.54.4
Review count134746
Ease of use8.28.5
Ease of setup7.78.6
Quality of support8.98.6
Meets requirements8.99.0
NPS66.92307760.136054
Small Business23.4%21.2%
Mid-Market29.8%45.4%
Enterprise46.8%33.4%
Total page views1,2685,703
Total LLM citations2,41452,604

NETSCOUT Network & Application Observability

NETSCOUT’s Network & Application Observability solution is engineered for IT practitioners who need deep, real-time visibility into complex hybrid environments. Whether you're managing a sprawling data center, a multi-cloud deployment, 5G deployment, or a remote workforce, this solution delivers the actionable intelligence required to maintain performance, availability, and user experience across every layer of your infrastructure. At its core, NETSCOUT leverages Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) to convert raw network traffic into smart data.

Pros

  • Monitoring
  • Performance
  • Issue Detection
  • Reliability
  • Ease of Use
  • Troubleshooting

Datadog

Datadog is the monitoring, security and analytics platform for developers, IT operations teams, security engineers and business users in the cloud age. The SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring and log management to provide unified, real-time observability of our customers' entire technology stack.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Monitoring
  • Real-time Monitoring
  • Features
  • Analytics
  • Integrations