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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Datadog

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ADatadog 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

    Visual Studio Test Professional

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AAn add-on for the Visual Studio IDE, Visual Studio Test Professional subscription helps teams drive quality and speed. It includes test case management and collaboration features that streamline quality control and support continuous delivery.

    $2,169

    for the first year (renews at $869)

    Pricing
    DatadogVisual Studio Test Professional
    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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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DatadogVisual Studio Test Professional
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing. Multi-Year/Volume discounts available (500+ hosts/mo).—
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    Community Pulse
    DatadogVisual Studio Test Professional
    Considered Both Products
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
    50 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    12 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    41 Answers
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    32 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    9 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    36 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
    Features
    DatadogVisual Studio Test Professional
    Monitoring Tasks
    Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Datadog and Visual Studio Test Professional
    Feature
    Datadog
    7.9
    2 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Visual Studio Test Professional
    -
    Ratings
    Remote monitoring8.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network device monitoring7.72 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Server Monitoring7.72 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-device monitoring7.72 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated alerts and notifications8.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management Tasks
    Comparison of Management Tasks features of Datadog and Visual Studio Test Professional
    Feature
    Datadog
    6.1
    1 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Visual Studio Test Professional
    -
    Ratings
    Patch Management7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service configuration management6.41 Ratings00 Ratings
    Software and hardware inventory5.51 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy-based automation5.51 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting
    Comparison of Reporting features of Datadog and Visual Studio Test Professional
    Feature
    Datadog
    8.2
    2 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Visual Studio Test Professional
    -
    Ratings
    Performance data reports8.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable reporting7.72 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data visualization8.62 Ratings00 Ratings
    Risk analysis8.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Datadog and Visual Studio Test Professional
    Feature
    Datadog
    6.7
    1 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Visual Studio Test Professional
    -
    Ratings
    Data backup and recovery6.41 Ratings00 Ratings
    Antivirus and malware management7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
    Administrator access control6.41 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    DatadogVisual Studio Test Professional
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (65 ratings)
    7.0
    (15 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    4.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (44 ratings)
    7.0
    (10 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.0
    (7 ratings)
    8.5
    (10 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DatadogVisual Studio Test Professional
    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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    Microsoft
    It would be well suited if we used it with Azure DevOps as we can effortlessly integrate the test cases and even stories or tasks to stay on track with our work. Those test cases can even be reused across multiple projects. Using any other third-party tools, such as Jira, can be less appropriate, as it's not a Microsoft tool, and its capabilities will be limited.
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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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    Microsoft
    • Availability of the desktop client or the web interface. The web interface being the favorite and providing a better experience.
    • It enables you to write unit tests with so much ease.
    • Allows the recording and repeating of manual tests
    • It can be set up for collaboration.
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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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    Microsoft
    • The user community of the Visual Studio Test product is weak. For instant problems with this product, it is necessary to quickly reach the source of the error.
    • Licence fees need to be more reasonable. License prices need to be reduced so that they can easily compete with free testing tools.
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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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    Microsoft
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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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    Microsoft
    It is very usable if you are familiar with Visual Studio to begin with. If you are new to the interface, it can be a long ramp up period for Testers not used to the GUI. There is always the web option which seems to be more intuitive for many Testers.
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    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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    Microsoft
    Visual Studio Test Professional is backed up by the full support of the Microsoft Corporation. That means twenty-four/seven customer support by quality, highly-trained professionals who understand every possible issue that you have experienced before. They are nice, efficient, and highly professional. I recommend them.
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    Implementation Rating
    Datadog
    Documentation was difficult to work through, rollout was catastrophic (completely outage)
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    Microsoft
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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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    Microsoft
    The visual Studio Test tool is faster than other tools. Since the development and testing processes are in one tool, it is more profitable in terms of cost. It is more inconvenient to write a test case in DevOps.
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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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    Microsoft
    • One of the positive ROIs of Visual Studios is the fact that it makes producing our work at a quick rate, things like Intellisense make our work get produced at a much higher rate which is good for our return of investment.
    • Testing by the developers has increased by 23%, we now take the time to actually test our product before we send it to our QA people.
    • I am not aware of any negative ROI aspects to our company that have been found.
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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.