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."
"We can handle debugging and find out why things are breaking in our applications."
"Its integration is most valuable because you can integrate it with various service providers such as AWS, .Net, etc."
"The solution has helped our organization with custom events to track specific cases."
"The ingestion points are unlimited and support customization. We haven't had anything yet that we haven't been able to integrate with it."
"I have found the logging and tracing features the most valuable."
"Datadog provides tracing and logging, whereas Dynatrace focuses on tracing, and Splunk is more of a logging tool. Datadog's advantage is that we don't need two tools."
"The tool's deployment is easy."
"It has empowered all our platform engineers with a very powerful and easy to use monitoring system."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to put health checks in place not only for the infrastructure but for some of the services that are on top of the infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature is the auto-discovery, which is nice because you don't have to do anything to add a new component."
"Stability has been good. We really have not had any issues."
"What I like best is the configuration management functionality."
"The stability of the product is key. It never breaks, really. The stability and reliability of the Spectrum product have been top-notch."
"The most valuable features of DX Spectrum are the comprehensive alerts."
"The solution's most valuable features are its integration with Broadcom tools and scalability."
"The capability of handling and monitoring with SNMP and working with the SNMP traps is much better than other products."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The logging could be improved in the future."
"It can have a more modernized pricing mechanism. We're actually working with them to figure out how to become more modular and have a better and more modernized pricing mechanism. The issue with Datadog is that you have to buy the whole suite of different products, and you kind of get stuck in the old utilization of 40% of their suite. Most organizations today break down between application development, networking, and security. Therefore, there should be a way to break down different modules into just app dev, infosec, networking, etc. Customers have various needs across their business lines, and sometimes, they're just not willing to have tools that they're not using 100%. AppDynamics is probably a little bit better in terms of being modular."
"We need a lot of modules since we collect all data logs from all operating systems."
"The setup was a bit complex."
"Datadog lacks a deeper application-level insight. Their competitors had eclipsed them in offering ET functionality that was important to us. That's why we stopped using it and switched to New Relic. Datadog's price is also high."
"Managing dashboards as IaC is a bit hard to work out at times."
"The on-premise version is very difficult to upgrade."
"Once agents are connected to the Datadog portal, we should be able to upgrade them quickly."
"For my use case, incident coordination was an area of improvement. The internal software engine for coordinating outages could use improvement because sometimes, we used to get false alerts for unrelated devices. They did a really good job of trying to make sure that you got one major alert and any of the subsequent devices downstream were just additions to that, but occasionally, the engine wouldn't properly catch the right things, and we used to get a flood of alerts."
"Its visualization can be improved. It doesn't have a very advanced GUI. It is very basic and simple, but it does work."
"DX Spectrum needs better documentation on its complex features."
"A better integration with the UIM, as far as being able to do root cause analysis and that type of analytics."
"DX Spectrum needs to incorporate faster support."
"The visual is a little archaic."
"There should be a facility to integrate with other monitoring applications that are currently running in the environment."
"The platform is complicated to use."
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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