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 monitoring functionality, in general, and tagging infrastructure are great."
"Profiling has been made easier."
"If we have a large load for users using our basic Datadog, it will immediately fire off an alert notifying us either something's wrong or not."
"It brings in observability, monitoring, and alerting capabilities - all of which we need to operate at scale."
"Having a wealth of information has helped us investigate outages, and having historical data helps us tune our system."
"It has turned into an operational dashboard. If you felt something is going wrong, you can immediately open up Datadog. It has been our go to application because we know the answer will be there."
"Its integration is most valuable because you can integrate it with various service providers such as AWS, .Net, etc."
"It has empowered all our platform engineers with a very powerful and easy to use monitoring system."
"We can plan changes and replacement of end-of-life products in our environment very well because it's very accurate."
"It does correlation so instead of producing 20 alarms if a site goes down, it only creates one."
"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 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 presentation layer is pretty simple and straightforward."
"We can monitor MPLS network VPN, network configuration, and backups. It's highly scalable for network configuration management."
"It has a high-quality graphical interface."
"It is easy to understand and determine when and/or where the network is failing."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It would be ideal if the product offered a bit more monitoring from our dashboard."
"The logging could be improved in the future."
"The incident management beta looks promising, but it is still missing the ability to automatically create incidents based on certain alerts."
"They need to implement template variables into the message response body."
"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."
"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."
"There is always room for improvement when dealing with cloud-based technologies. Mainly, I would say, it's just increasing our offerings to attract various other types of industries and businesses across more fields."
"The pricing is a bit confusing."
"Its visualization can be improved. It doesn't have a very advanced GUI. It is very basic and simple, but it does work."
"It takes some time to learn how to use this solution."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see better scalability, and maybe, a more intuitive user interface. "
"DX Spectrum is stable. However, now and then there are some issues, but overall it is good."
"It needs better integration with other CA products."
Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 136 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 IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM). See our DX Spectrum vs. Datadog report.
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