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."
"For us to have visibility into our app stack and the hardware we run has been highly beneficial."
"Sometimes it's more user friendly for development teams. There are some parts of Datadog that are more understandable for development teams. For example, the APM in Datadog works more manually and works like the tools in New Relic or Grafana, or Elastic. It is easier to understand for software development teams."
"I really enjoy the RUM monitoring features of Datadog. It allows us to monitor user behavior in a way we couldn't before."
"They have a very good foundation in capturing metrics, logs, and traces. It's a very nice tool for that and it allows you to apply these monitoring tools in almost any technology."
"Having a wealth of information has helped us investigate outages, and having historical data helps us tune our system."
"The solution has improved the organization by providing good insights into app performance and offering good dashboards."
"Datadog has clear dashboards and good documentation."
"With Datadog I can look at the health of the technology stack and services."
"Discovery: Scheduled, on-demand, synchronized with eHealth."
"It is very stable. We have not had any major issues in over 10 years."
"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."
"The Spectrum tool improved our network assurance levels for our business units."
"Some of the most valuable features are it's highly scalable, the carrier is great, and if something has SNMP, it can monitor it. It's a great network fault management solution."
"The monitoring just comes to us: "Oh, there's something wrong with that machine." It tells us. There are some 50,000 machines or so, all doing different things. And if they go down we hear about it."
"We can plan changes and replacement of end-of-life products in our environment very well because it's very accurate."
"It is easy to navigate."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"To be very fair, I haven't had enough experience with Datadog to pick out improvements."
"Could be a little more user friendly."
"The more tools that they can build that allow you to run AWX playbooks, or other similar fixes, would benefit clients greatly."
"The ability to find what you are looking for when starting out could be improved."
"We need a lot of modules since we collect all data logs from all operating systems."
"They should continue expanding and integrating with more third-party apps."
"Sometimes, it takes a long time to load the dashboard if we have many charts."
"The product is quite complex, and there are so many features that I either didn't know about or wasn't sure how to use."
"It doesn’t give you performance metrics: You need CA eHealth for this."
"Event correlation only works on one server, rather than on all of the servers in the same cluster environment."
"Technical support for this product is not so good. It needs improvement."
"We have had one support issue that's been open for a couple of months, and it is currently open."
"We have had some issues with the spec server and the high availability replication of data. It fails over well, but it does not come back very well. We get duplicated events."
"The biggest issue is our integration right now between UIM and Spectrum is lacking."
"There should be a facility to integrate with other monitoring applications that are currently running in the environment."
"DX Spectrum needs better documentation on its complex features."
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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