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."
"Going from viewing a metric to creating a monitor alerting on a metric is very easy."
"This is definitely a good product and I would consider them one of the leaders within the application monitoring and cloud monitoring space."
"The integration into AWS is key as well as our software is currently bound to AWS."
"The feature I have found most valuable is when I can reuse existing monitors and alerts for new dashboards."
"This spectrum of solutions has allowed us to track down bugs faster and more rapidly, which allows us to limit revenue lost during downtime."
"The solution has improved the organization by providing good insights into app performance and offering good dashboards."
"The interface and the integrations make it so easy to connect to the cloud or to the on-premise environment."
"It brings in observability, monitoring, and alerting capabilities - all of which we need to operate at scale."
"This product provides good visibility into applications at the backend."
"It's a good tool. It's simple to do the configuration."
"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 tool is very mature, and its valuable features are monitoring and configuration management."
"The granular access control that it provided so that you could only see devices that were related to what you were working on was great. I couldn't see the entire inventory of devices. I could only see the ones that were related to my work. It has got a very granular access control component."
"Spectrum does such a great job of discovering our network that we have a high confidence in what our inventory is."
"It has a high-quality graphical interface."
"The solution's most valuable features are its integration with Broadcom tools and scalability."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Datadog has a lot of documentation, but a lot of that documentation assumes you know how the service works, which can lead to confusion."
"I want to applaud the efforts in making the UI extremely usable and approachable. My suggestion would be to take another look at how the menu structure is put together, however. Even after using the platform mostly every day for months, I still find myself trying to find a service or feature in the menus."
"The Log Explorer could be better. I don't think it has log manipulation as Splunk does."
"I'd like to see better pricing and more integration in the next release."
"It would be ideal if the product offered a bit more monitoring from our dashboard."
"Lately, chat support has a longer waiting time."
"Additional metrics should be included."
"Delta traces on the Golang profiler are extremely expensive concerning memory utilization."
"It needs better integration with other CA products."
"We want to make our own choice for the AIOps solution and do not want to be forced to use the Broadcom OI solution by default."
"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."
"It's not a great performance management tool. Its reporting capabilities are not very good at all."
"Our consultant was four months on-site doing Spectrum setup and working through issues."
"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."
"There should be a facility to integrate with other monitoring applications that are currently running in the environment."
"There should be better integration with other Broadcom products, like network performance manager. Currently, for every part of a product, you need a separate server environment. You have something for Spectrum, you have something for network performance, and you have something for NetFlow. There are a lot of islands and server farms with different technologies. They should be redeveloped to get one platform for all."
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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