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."
"Datadog's ability to group and visualize the servers and the data makes it relatively easy for the root cause analysis."
"We have way more observability than what we had before - on the application and the overall system."
"The solution has improved the organization by providing good insights into app performance and offering good dashboards."
"The ability to easily drill down into log queries quickly and efficiently has helped us to resolve several critical incidents."
"We rely heavily on the API crawlers that Datadog uses for cloud integrations. These allow us to pick up and leverage the tags teams have already deployed without having also to make them add them at the agent level."
"Datadog helps us detect issues early on and helps in troubleshooting."
"The observability on offer is the most useful aspect of the product."
"APM is great and has provided low-effort out-of-the-box observability for various services."
"We can monitor MPLS network VPN, network configuration, and backups. It's highly scalable for network configuration management."
"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."
"The fault management is perfect."
"It is very stable. We have not had any major issues in over 10 years."
"It's a good tool. It's simple to do the configuration."
"It does correlation so instead of producing 20 alarms if a site goes down, it only creates one."
"It creates transparency and makes everything work by being more transparent."
"The tool is very mature, and its valuable features are monitoring and configuration management."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Datadog isn't as mature as some of the established players like Dynatrace or Splunk. It's a new product, so they are constantly releasing new features, and I don't have much to complain about."
"The error traceability is an area that can be improved."
"We want to reduce having to go to different screens to obtain all the information."
"Billing should be more transparent."
"It does not have the best interface."
"Datadog has a lot of features kind of cramped into one dashboard. It's quite hard to get around what feature does exactly what. There was a steep learning curve, trying to navigate through menus."
"If there were a more cost-effective manner of deploying the tool, we'd be more likely to adopt it more widely."
"The on-premise version is very difficult to upgrade."
"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."
"The biggest issue is our integration right now between UIM and Spectrum is lacking."
"DX Spectrum could be improved by them getting rid of the Java console. It would also be better with Turkish language support."
"The Spectrum OneClick is a Java-based client, and that's aging. Really, before any new feature integration, I'd love to see a comprehensive rebuild of the UI."
"The solution could improve by allowing the ability to monitor the network shortly after installing the software and adding an auto-discovery function."
"Its visualization can be improved. It doesn't have a very advanced GUI. It is very basic and simple, but it does work."
"Integration with some other tools, and integration with some Network Packet Broker, need some improvement."
"It was somewhat complex to implement."
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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