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 ease of correcting these dashboards and widgets when needed is amazing."
"I find the greatest feature is being able to search across logs from various microservices."
"Overall, the Data UI and the usability of customer features continue to improve."
"We've found it most useful for managing Rstudio Workbench, which has its own logs that would not be picked up via Cloudwatch."
"Datadog has made it much easier to have a central place for people to look for logs and made it much easier to notify them of any elevated error rates or failures."
"It provides more cloud data. They tend to just get the way a service would be designed on the cloud."
"The ability to easily drill down into log queries quickly and efficiently has helped us to resolve several critical incidents."
"The interface and the integrations make it so easy to connect to the cloud or to the on-premise environment."
"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."
"It's a good tool. It's simple to do the configuration."
"What I like best is the configuration management functionality."
"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."
"Offers a lot of functionality."
"It creates transparency and makes everything work by being more transparent."
"Some of the most valuable features are it's highly scalable, the carrier is great, and if something has SNMP, it can monitor it. It's a great network fault management solution."
"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 Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"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."
"We need a lot of modules since we collect all data logs from all operating systems."
"The documentation leaves a lot to be desired for new users."
"The error traceability is an area that can be improved."
"The product needs a better Datadog agent installation."
"We need more integration functionality, including certain metrics integration."
"The product needs to have more enterprise approach to configuration."
"Datadog has a lot of documentation, but a lot of that documentation assumes you know how the service works, which can lead to confusion."
"Huawei devices are not properly supported, and there are incompatibility issues related to certain protocols."
"We have a lot of different monitoring tools in the background, so orchestration has been a little bit of a challenge."
"I think the management or configuration of devices needs some improvement."
"For us, the implementation was quite complex but it's because of the large number of different environments we're dealing with."
"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 product should provide performance management features."
"There should be a facility to integrate with other monitoring applications that are currently running in the environment."
"It was somewhat complex to implement."
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Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 94 reviews while DX Spectrum is ranked 14th in Network Monitoring Software with 11 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while DX Spectrum is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Easy to set up and good UI but needs better customization capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Makes it easier to understand root cause and troubleshoot". 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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