We performed a comparison between Datadog and DX Spectrum 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 most useful feature is the APM."
"The web app has a real-time support chat window in which a support engineer is chatting with you within a minute."
"I like the amount of tooling and the number of solutions they sold with their monitoring. Datadog was highly intuitive to use."
"We have a better grasp of what is occurring during the deployment cycle. If something fails, we have an idea what has failed, where it has failed, and how it failed to better mitigate the situation."
"It helps us better manage our logs."
"Datadog is providing efficiency in the products we develop for the wireless device engineering department."
"For us to have visibility into our app stack and the hardware we run has been highly beneficial."
"Profiling has been made easier."
"The containerization of different objects was very helpful in building an org structure. Being able to separately manage your MSP clients with separate visibility was also helpful."
"The granular access control that it provided so that you could only see devices that were related to what you were working on was great. I couldn't see the entire inventory of devices. I could only see the ones that were related to my work. It has got a very granular access control component."
"It's a good tool. It's simple to do the configuration."
"The most valuable features have been the interface and the ability to do equipment management."
"The most valuable feature is automatic discovery."
"All networks (or network equipment) are monitored through CA Spectrum."
"The capability of handling and monitoring with SNMP and working with the SNMP traps is much better than other products."
"It is easy to navigate."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"Since the Datadog platform has so many separate features, solving so many use cases, there are often inconsistencies in feature availability and interoperability between products."
"I'm still exploring the trial version, and it is fine. One thing that I haven't been able to figure out is how to retrieve a report. This is something that could be improved. I probably need to navigate to a place to access the reports."
"The setup was a bit complex."
"I found the documentation can sometimes be confusing."
"The pricing model could be simplified as it feels a bit outdated, especially when you look at the billing model of compute instances vs the containers instances."
"Auto instrumentation on tracing has not been very easy to find in the documentation."
"The solution should provide alerts for cloud outages."
"I found the solution to be stable, I did not experience any bugs or glitches. However, some of the managing team did."
"From a functionality perspective, the product is not doing what it should. Also, there are some concerns about the accessibility. I would appreciate additional out-of-the-box troubleshooting scripts, like templates for addressing various issues. Currently, when troubleshooting online, I need to create my scripts. It would be beneficial if the platform could provide pre-built scripts or templates to help automate certain troubleshooting tasks."
"It was somewhat complex to implement."
"I would like to see them eliminate the Java console. The user interface for this is a Java applet that runs on your desktop, and it is very problematic for us."
"The interface is not nice and needs to be improved."
"DX Spectrum could be improved by them getting rid of the Java console. It would also be better with Turkish language support."
"If they could interact with the MIBs of vendors better, and have a lot more pre-loaded ones, that would be amazing for us right now."
"The GIS map feature needs to be enhanced and synced with topology views of containers and global collections."
"Needs better integration with all the other products in the Agile suite of tools; anything they could do to make that less complex, would be great."
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Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 137 reviews while DX Spectrum is ranked 13th in Network Monitoring Software with 115 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while DX Spectrum is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and Nagios XI. See our DX Spectrum vs. Datadog report.
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