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 product has offered increased visibility via logging APM, metrics, RUM, etc."
"It is easy to navigate the menu and create tests."
"We integrate our application logs. It is great to be able to tie our metrics and our traces together."
"Having a clear view, not only of our infrastructure but our apps and services as well, has brought a great added value to our customers."
"The ease with which we can filter, use metrics, and give accounts to customers, then let the customer filter, set up metrics, and alerts. This has been a big win for us."
"Datadog dashboards are pretty great."
"Anything I've wanted to do, I found a way to get it done through Datadog."
"Its integration is most valuable because you can integrate it with various service providers such as AWS, .Net, etc."
"It is easy to navigate."
"Scalability is a highly rated feature of this solution. It is better than some of the other tools that I've used in terms of scalability. We scaled it to tens of thousands of devices."
"The fault management is perfect."
"The tool is very mature, and its valuable features are monitoring and configuration management."
"We can plan changes and replacement of end-of-life products in our environment very well because it's very accurate."
"The main thing is obviously notifications about alerts, getting ahead of the curve to make sure that we do not have system going down, or if it is down we get to know it earlier."
"Scalable and stable network monitoring tool with a simple setup."
"The presentation layer is pretty simple and straightforward."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The menu on the left is pretty dense (and I know it has to be). I never knew about the cmd+k functionality until recently. It would be helpful to offer more tips/cheat sheets to see handy shortcuts like that."
"I've found that the documentation is lacking in certain regards."
"Deploying the agents is still very manual."
"The pricing should be less of a surprise."
"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."
"The Log Explorer could be better. I don't think it has log manipulation as Splunk does."
"Datadog needs more local Asia-Pacific support, and if they don't have a SaaS solution in Asia-Pacific, they should offer an on-prem version. I'm told that's not possible."
"It would be nice to be able to graph metrics by excluding certain tags (like you can do in monitors)."
"It needs better integration with other CA products."
"DX Spectrum is stable. However, now and then there are some issues, but overall it is good."
"I think the management or configuration of devices needs some improvement."
"I would suggest improving the web GUI to improve the device monitor configuration and to improve or to integrate the new tool for reporting."
"There should be a facility to integrate with other monitoring applications that are currently running in the environment."
"The solution could improve by allowing the ability to monitor the network shortly after installing the software and adding an auto-discovery function."
"The upgrade process could be smoother. More of the steps around upgrading could be automated."
"Huawei devices are not properly supported, and there are incompatibility issues related to certain protocols."
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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