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 performance of Datadog is good."
"The feature I have found most valuable is when I can reuse existing monitors and alerts for new dashboards."
"We've been able to glean from the monitors what servers are down, and can alert the team in Slack."
"The installation step is pretty straightforward."
"We can handle debugging and find out why things are breaking in our applications."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboards that are provided out of the box, as well as ones we were able to configure."
"Since we integrated Datadog, we have had increased confidence in the quality of our service, and we had an easier time increasing our delivery velocity."
"It has provided visibility with ease of implementation and allowed multiple teams to quickly onboard it."
"What I like best is the configuration management functionality."
"It is easy to navigate."
"We can monitor MPLS network VPN, network configuration, and backups. It's highly scalable for network configuration management."
"It does correlation so instead of producing 20 alarms if a site goes down, it only creates one."
"The solution's most valuable features are its integration with Broadcom tools and scalability."
"The stability of the product is key. It never breaks, really. The stability and reliability of the Spectrum product have been top-notch."
"The Spectrum tool improved our network assurance levels for our business units."
"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."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"We need to learn more about the session reply feature inside of DD."
"I sometimes log in and see items changed, either in the UI or a feature enabled. To see it for the first time without proper communication can sometimes come as a shock."
"I would love to see more metrics or analytics in IoT devices."
"Lacks some flexibility in the customization."
"The pricing should be less of a surprise."
"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 would like better navigability across pages."
"It does not have the best interface."
"Our consultant was four months on-site doing Spectrum setup and working through issues."
"DX Spectrum needs better documentation on its complex features."
"The GIS map feature needs to be enhanced and synced with topology views of containers and global collections."
"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."
"From the users perspective the looks and feel of dashboards of Spectrum would be easier to use and for understanding as APM will be in 10.5 version which we saw in CA World."
"It's not a great performance management tool. Its reporting capabilities are not very good at all."
"DX Spectrum needs to incorporate faster support."
"If nobody else has said the documentation needs improvement, let's go there. I understand, you can either write about it or you can do it. And most of us would rather they do it, but now that they've done it, those of us that didn't do it, we need to go and find: "Where did they write about this to tell us how to do it?" That's always lacking."
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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