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."
"Thanks to the logs, we manage to make better reports through Jira and also to trace the request with more facility than we would be able to do otherwise."
"Datadog has clear dashboards and good documentation."
"The integration into AWS is key as well as our software is currently bound to AWS."
"We have a better grasp of what is occurring during the deployment cycle. If something fails, we have an idea what has failed, where it has failed, and how it failed to better mitigate the situation."
"Even if we don't end up using Datadog, it revealed problems and optimizations to us that weren't obvious before."
"We've been able to glean from the monitors what servers are down, and can alert the team in Slack."
"Datadog dashboards are pretty great."
"It has scaled great. I haven't run into any problems anywhere that I've used it. They have handled everything that we have needed them to."
"The fault management is perfect."
"Scalable and stable network monitoring tool with a simple setup."
"What I like best is the configuration management functionality."
"The Spectrum tool improved our network assurance levels for our business units."
"It is easy to navigate."
"The most valuable feature is the auto-discovery, which is nice because you don't have to do anything to add a new component."
"As the kind of enterprise that straddles the line between telco size and enterprise size, it scales for us, because we're not all the way at telco yet."
"The tool is very mature, and its valuable features are monitoring and configuration management."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The setup was a bit complex."
"I would like testing for data in the future."
"The real issue with this product is cost control."
"The pricing should be less of a surprise."
"Managing dashboards as IaC is a bit hard to work out at times."
"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."
"Auto instrumentation on tracing has not been very easy to find in the documentation."
"The pricing model could be simplified as it feels a bit outdated, especially when you look at the billing model of compute instances vs the containers instances."
"It's not a great performance management tool. Its reporting capabilities are not very good at all."
"We have a lot of different monitoring tools in the background, so orchestration has been a little bit of a challenge."
"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 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..."
"I would suggest improving the web GUI to improve the device monitor configuration and to improve or to integrate the new tool for reporting."
"Technical support for this product is not so good. It needs improvement."
"I would like to see CA move Spectrum, Performance Manager, and some of their other tools moved to a SaaS based model. You see a lot of other manufacturers which are moving toward SaaS based models."
"A better integration with the UIM, as far as being able to do root cause analysis and that type of analytics."
Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 136 reviews while DX Spectrum is ranked 14th 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 HPE Intelligent Management Center. See our DX Spectrum vs. Datadog report.
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