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 most valuable aspect of the solution is the APM."
"Datadog has so far been a breeze to use and set up."
"Datadog helps us detect issues early on and helps in troubleshooting."
"I like the amount of tooling and the number of solutions they sold with their monitoring. Datadog was highly intuitive to use."
"Having a wealth of information has helped us investigate outages, and having historical data helps us tune our system."
"I find the greatest feature is being able to search across logs from various microservices."
"The solution is sufficiently stable."
"The observability pipelines are the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"The most valuable feature is the event correlation mechanism."
"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."
"We can plan changes and replacement of end-of-life products in our environment very well because it's very accurate."
"Spectrum does such a great job of discovering our network that we have a high confidence in what our inventory is."
"Discovery: Scheduled, on-demand, synchronized with eHealth."
"All networks (or network equipment) are monitored through CA Spectrum."
"Offers a lot of functionality."
"The solution's most valuable features are its integration with Broadcom tools and scalability."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Datadog is so feature-rich that it is often hard to onboard new folks and tough to decide where to invest time."
"ECS could be improved by including more tutorials for beginners to reduce the barriers to entry."
"I would like better navigability across pages."
"Billing should be more transparent."
"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."
"More pre-configured "Monitor Alerts" would be helpful."
"It does not have the best interface."
"The product could do better with its notifications."
"Its visualization can be improved. It doesn't have a very advanced GUI. It is very basic and simple, but it does work."
"We have a lot of different monitoring tools in the background, so orchestration has been a little bit of a challenge."
"From a functionality perspective, the product is not doing what it should. Also, there are some concerns about the accessibility. I would appreciate additional out-of-the-box troubleshooting scripts, like templates for addressing various issues. Currently, when troubleshooting online, I need to create my scripts. It would be beneficial if the platform could provide pre-built scripts or templates to help automate certain troubleshooting tasks."
"If the integration is simplified or improved, it will be a unique selling point in comparison to the competition on the market."
"Make it easier to certify devices."
"The platform is complicated to use."
"DX Spectrum could be improved by them getting rid of the Java console. It would also be better with Turkish language support."
"It doesn't really allow for multi-tenancy. If you're an ISP or an MSP and you want to use this tool to provide these types of fault management services to your customers, you would need a separate SpectroSERVER for each customer..."
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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