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 feature I have found most valuable is when I can reuse existing monitors and alerts for new dashboards."
"The web app has a real-time support chat window in which a support engineer is chatting with you within a minute."
"The visibility that it provides is valuable. It is helping in being proactive around incident management. It is helping us to be able to get more visibility into our customers' applications so that we can assist them at the application layer. We also provide them the infrastructure from an AWS standpoint. We are able to make sure that our customers are aware of certain critical things around the analytical piece of either the network or the application. We're able to call customers before they even know about the issue. From there, we can start putting together some change management processes and help them a bit."
"Flame graphs are pretty useful for understanding how GraphQL resolves our federated queries when it comes to identifying slow points in our requests. In our microservice environment with 170 services."
"The management of SLOs and their related burn-rate monitors have allowed us to onboard teams to on-call fast."
"The monitoring functionality, in general, and tagging infrastructure are great."
"The most valuable aspects of the product include the APM and profiler."
"Having a wealth of information has helped us investigate outages, and having historical data helps us tune our system."
"The tool is very mature, and its valuable features are monitoring and configuration management."
"Spectrum does such a great job of discovering our network that we have a high confidence in what our inventory is."
"We can monitor MPLS network VPN, network configuration, and backups. It's highly scalable for network configuration management."
"The presentation layer is pretty simple and straightforward."
"It is easy to understand and determine when and/or where the network is failing."
"The fault management is perfect."
"The stability of the product is key. It never breaks, really. The stability and reliability of the Spectrum product have been top-notch."
"This product provides good visibility into applications at the backend."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"We have recently had a number of issues with stability and delays on logging, monitoring, metric evaluation, and alerts."
"Alerting timing should be improved to be more fine-tuned and exact."
"I'm not sure if Datadog can monitor K8s deployments in real-time. For instance, being able to see a deployment step by step visually. This would be helpful if there were any incidents during the deployment."
"Datadog does not have the feature where you can monitor external websites or check the SSL secure for websites."
"The ability to find what you are looking for when starting out could be improved."
"I'd like to see better pricing and more integration in the next release."
"There are things about it that we would like to be fixed, such as it is taking averages of average. This results in data that we don't expect."
"They could have better log reporting."
"I would recommend AI capability built-in so it becomes more predictable and we jump ahead of the curve. This is the one really important feature I would really like to see in any product that provides alarms."
"The upgrade process could be smoother. More of the steps around upgrading could be automated."
"DX Spectrum is stable. However, now and then there are some issues, but overall it is good."
"The solution could improve by allowing the ability to monitor the network shortly after installing the software and adding an auto-discovery function."
"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."
"Event correlation only works on one server, rather than on all of the servers in the same cluster environment."
"OS monitoring needs to be better developed, as well as their services, e.g., cluster monitoring, URLs, etc."
"DX Spectrum needs to incorporate faster support."
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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