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."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The ingestion points are unlimited and support customization. We haven't had anything yet that we haven't been able to integrate with it."
"Datadog documentation on web pages has improved a lot and is pretty easy to follow and find."
"We have hundreds of microservices, and knowing how top-level requests weave throughout all of them is invaluable."
"I have found the logging and tracing features the most valuable."
"The tools are powerful and intuitive to set up."
"The web app has a real-time support chat window in which a support engineer is chatting with you within a minute."
"The platform appeals to companies spanning many industries on a global scale."
"The Datadog suite has allowed us to easily integrate log collection into all of our services and quickly detect unexpected changes in system data to declare security incidents."
"It does correlation so instead of producing 20 alarms if a site goes down, it only creates one."
"It is very stable. We have not had any major issues in over 10 years."
"Scalability is a highly rated feature of this solution. It is better than some of the other tools that I've used in terms of scalability. We scaled it to tens of thousands of devices."
"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."
"I can use it to detect whenever things go wrong on my network."
"Spectrum is very useful for us, because the product lets us monitor and control all the various components of our infrastructure that support our business from an IT perspective."
"Scalable and stable network monitoring tool with a simple setup."
"This product provides good visibility into applications at the backend."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"We need more integration functionality, including certain metrics integration."
"Could be a little more user friendly."
"It seems that admin cost control granularity is an afterthought."
"The solution needs to integrate AI tools."
"The ability to find what you are looking for when starting out could be improved."
"It lacks consistency in the APIs."
"One thing we have run into is that it is so easy to add monitoring that we turn on things without really understanding the costs."
"Once agents are connected to the Datadog portal, we should be able to upgrade them quickly."
"Our consultant was four months on-site doing Spectrum setup and working through issues."
"I would like to see better scalability, and maybe, a more intuitive user interface. "
"The CA Technologies sales team destroyed their relationship with our business units."
"The solution's stability needs improvement."
"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."
"The Spectrum OneClick is a Java-based client, and that's aging. Really, before any new feature integration, I'd love to see a comprehensive rebuild of the UI."
"For us, the implementation was quite complex but it's because of the large number of different environments we're dealing with."
"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."
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 AppDynamics, whereas DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and ThousandEyes. See our DX Spectrum vs. Datadog report.
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