Datadog vs. Keysight Cloud Visibility (CloudLens) vs. vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Datadog
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Datadog is a monitoring service for IT, Dev and Ops teams who write and run applications at scale, and want to turn the massive amounts of data produced by their apps, tools and services into actionable insight.
$18
per month per host
Keysight Cloud Visibility (CloudLens)
Score 0.0 out of 10
N/A
Keysight's Cloud Visibility solution helps users achieve dynamic network intelligence, to power better security, visibility, and performance monitoring for the cloud. Capabilities are based on the CloudLens product, formerly from Ixia.N/A
vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
vRealize Suite and vCloud Suite delivered a self-service consumption layer, an automation framework and self-driving Day 2 operations for VMware Cloud. The product is no longer available.
$10
per month per core
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
Log Management
$1.27
per month (billed annually) per host
Infrastructure
$15.00
per month (billed annually) per host
Standard
$18
per month per host
Enterprise
$27
per month per host
DevSecOps Pro
$27
per month per host
APM
$31.00
per month (billed annually) per host
DevSecOps Enterprise
$41
per month per host
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FCO Hosting Edition
$10
per month per core
FCO Hosting Edition
$10
per Cluster & Hypervisor Combination/Annual
FCO Single Cluster Edition
$16
per month per core
FCO Hosting Edition
$128
per month Max Core Limit
FCO Single Cluster Edition
$1500
per Cluster & Hypervisor Combination/Annual
FCO Single Cluster Edition
Unlimited
per month Max Core Limit
FCO Multiple Cluster Edition
Unlimited
per month Max Core Limit
FCO Multiple Cluster Edition
Contact Sales
per month per core
FCO Multiple Cluster Edition
Contact Sales
per Cluster & Hypervisor Combination/Annual
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
DatadogKeysight Cloud Visibility (CloudLens)vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
Free Trial
YesNoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing. Multi-Year/Volume discounts available (500+ hosts/mo).
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Cloud Management
Comparison of Cloud Management features of Product A and Product B
Datadog
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Ratings
Keysight Cloud Visibility (CloudLens)
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Ratings
vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
8.1
1 Ratings
8% below category average
Cloud Management Security00 Ratings00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Automation and Orchestration00 Ratings00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Cost Management00 Ratings00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Cloud Management Performance Monitoring00 Ratings00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Governance and Compliance00 Ratings00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Resource Management00 Ratings00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Systems Integration00 Ratings00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Best Alternatives
DatadogKeysight Cloud Visibility (CloudLens)vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
Small Businesses
InfluxDB
InfluxDB
Score 8.8 out of 10
VMware Cloud Director
VMware Cloud Director
Score 8.5 out of 10
VMware Cloud Director
VMware Cloud Director
Score 8.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Sumo Logic
Sumo Logic
Score 8.8 out of 10
IBM Turbonomic
IBM Turbonomic
Score 8.8 out of 10
IBM Turbonomic
IBM Turbonomic
Score 8.8 out of 10
Enterprises
NetBrain Technologies
NetBrain Technologies
Score 9.2 out of 10
VMware Cloud Director
VMware Cloud Director
Score 8.5 out of 10
VMware Cloud Director
VMware Cloud Director
Score 8.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
DatadogKeysight Cloud Visibility (CloudLens)vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
9.4
(55 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.2
(34 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.9
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
DatadogKeysight Cloud Visibility (CloudLens)vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
Datadog
Datadog may be better suited for teams that have a more out-of-the-box infrastructure, on the primary platforms Datadog supports. You may also have better results if you have a bigger team dedicated to devops and/or a bigger budget. We found that trying to adapt it to our use case (small team, .NET on AWS Fargate) wasn't feasible. We continually ran into roadblocks that required us to dig through documentation (and at times, having to figure out some documentation was wrong), go back and forth with support, and in my opinion, waste money on excessive and unintended usages due to opaque pricing models and inaccurate usage reports, as well as broken/non-functional rate sampling controls.
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Keysight Technologies
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Discontinued Products
It is most suited where there multi cloud platform as VCloud suite provides most 2 important licences i.e. Vsphere 9India's leading hypervisor) and Vrealize Suite which helps to automate and also simplies IT management by making the solution most agile, efficient and easy to use. If there is a simple environment with just few servers where there is need for only 2-3 VMs, i will not recommend this.
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Pros
Datadog
  • The thing which Datadog does really well, one of them are its broad range of services integrations and features which makes it one step observability solution for all. We can monitor all types of our application, infrastructure, hosts, databases etc with Datadog.
  • Its custom dashboard feature which helps us to visualize the data in a better way . It supports different types of charts through those charts we can create our dashboard more attractive.
  • Its AI powered alerting capability though that we can easily identify the root cause and also it has a low noise alerting capability which means it correlated the similar type of issues.
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Keysight Technologies
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Discontinued Products
  • One management platform for all the VMs across datacenters
  • Automation of IT management
  • Makes IT or Cloud management more agile and efficient.
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Cons
Datadog
  • Alert windows cause lag in notifications (e.g. if the alert window is X errors in 1 hour, we won't get alerted until the end of the 1 hour range)
  • I would appreciate more supportive examples for how to filter and view metrics in the explorer
  • I would like a more clear interface for metrics that are missing in a time frame, rather than only showing tags/etc. for metrics that were collected within the currently viewed time frame
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Keysight Technologies
No answers on this topic
Discontinued Products
  • There is nothing exactly like cons but one must should check all the features, it can be confusing at the times.
  • It can be expensive as compared to some other products available in the market.
  • Implementation can be little tricky, should done by Vmware engineer
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Likelihood to Renew
Datadog
Definitely will not revisit after our issues and, in my opinion, poor support.
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Keysight Technologies
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Discontinued Products
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Usability
Datadog
There are so many features that it can be hard to figure out where you need to go for your own use case. For example, RUM monitoring us buried in a "Digital Experience" sidebar setting when this is one of our key use cases that I sometimes struggle to find in the application. It appears that ECS + Fargate monitoring was recently released which is great because we had to build a lambda reporting solution for ephemeral task monitoring. But this new feature was never on my radar until I starting clicking around the application.
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Keysight Technologies
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Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Datadog
The support team usually gets it right. We did have a rather complicate issue setting up monitoring on a domain controller. However, they are usually responsive and helpful over chat. The downside would be I don’t think they have any phone support. If that is important to you this might not be a good fit.
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Keysight Technologies
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Discontinued Products
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Implementation Rating
Datadog
Documentation was difficult to work through, rollout was catastrophic (completely outage)
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Keysight Technologies
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Discontinued Products
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Alternatives Considered
Datadog
Our logs are very important, and Datadog manages them exceptionally well. We frequently use Datadog services for our investigations. Use case: Monitor your apps, infrastructure, APIs, and user experience.


Key features:


Logs, metrics, and APM (Application Performance Monitoring)


Real-time alerting and dashboards


Supports Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, and other integrations


RUM (Real User Monitoring) and Synthetics





✅ Best for backend, server, and distributed systems monitoring.
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Keysight Technologies
No answers on this topic
Discontinued Products
VCloud mostly provides cloud management platform, all others also provide the same plus some other features so, Vcloud can be little less expensive in comparison to other solutions available in market. Also, it's very easy to use and deploy and manage your cloud platform. It is widely used by mid scale as well as large scale companies.
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Return on Investment
Datadog
  • Saved us (time & money) from developing our own monitoring utilities that would pale in comparison
  • Alerts allow us to remedy issues before our customers even know about them
  • Tracking resource usage over time allows us to better plan for future needs, before it becomes a pain-point.
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Keysight Technologies
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Discontinued Products
  • Positive only- Vrealize suite helps is IT automation by making it cost-effective and efficient.
  • Less time is consumed by our IT administrators because of Automating process and they can do better monitoring
  • It can be really cost effective for if any company wants to make private cloud. It did the same with us as through vCloud we get all the VMware software required.
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ScreenShots

Datadog Screenshots

Screenshot of the out-of-the-box and customizable monitoring dashboards.Screenshot of Datadog's collaboration features, where users can discuss issues in-context with production data, annotate changes and notify their teams, see who responded to that alert before, and discover what was done to fix it.Screenshot of where Datadog unifies traces, metrics, and logs—the three pillars of observability.Screenshot of some of Datadog's 400+ built-in integrations.Screenshot of Datadog's Service Map, which decomposes an application into all its component services and draws the observed dependencies between these services in real timeScreenshot of centralized log data, pulled from any source.