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 ability to easily drill down into log queries quickly and efficiently has helped us to resolve several critical incidents."
"Datadog has clear dashboards and good documentation."
"The most valuable aspects of the product include the APM and profiler."
"The interface and the integrations make it so easy to connect to the cloud or to the on-premise environment."
"If we have a large load for users using our basic Datadog, it will immediately fire off an alert notifying us either something's wrong or not."
"Anything I've wanted to do, I found a way to get it done through Datadog."
"The visibility into our network has allowed for quick diagnosis of failures, identification of underutilized or over-utilized resources, and allowed for cloud cost optimization opportunities."
"This is definitely a good product and I would consider them one of the leaders within the application monitoring and cloud monitoring space."
"The most valuable features of DX Spectrum are the comprehensive alerts."
"It has a high-quality graphical interface."
"It helps our NetOps group actually handle alarms in a way that lets them see the bigger picture of those alarms, and how they might affect our services. It helps us communicate information about the network state better to services that might be impacted by a specific network condition."
"The solution's most valuable features are its integration with Broadcom tools and scalability."
"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."
"It covers a lot of different types of hardware. It can do a lot and saves us time."
"Offers a lot of functionality."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Graph filters for logs need to be set manually which works well for JSON but not for unstructured logs."
"I've only been using Datadog for a few months, and at first, it was frankly overwhelming in terms of both the UI and the available capabilities."
"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."
"The dashboard could be improved. It would be helpful to get a view of specific things that we need to monitor for our application."
"The on-premise version is very difficult to upgrade."
"Datadog could make their use cases more visible either through their docs or tutorial videos."
"I often have issues with the UI in my browser."
"I'm still exploring the trial version, and it is fine. One thing that I haven't been able to figure out is how to retrieve a report. This is something that could be improved. I probably need to navigate to a place to access the reports."
"OS monitoring needs to be better developed, as well as their services, e.g., cluster monitoring, URLs, etc."
"Integration with some other tools, and integration with some Network Packet Broker, need some improvement."
"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."
"It's not a great performance management tool. Its reporting capabilities are not very good at all."
"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."
"DX Spectrum needs to incorporate faster support."
"The biggest issue is our integration right now between UIM and Spectrum is lacking."
"We have had one support issue that's been open for a couple of months, and it is currently open."
Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 136 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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