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 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."
"Excellent autocomplete for everything in the UI."
"We can handle debugging and find out why things are breaking in our applications."
"Datadog's ability to group and visualize the servers and the data makes it relatively easy for the root cause analysis."
"The biggest thing I liked was the combination of all the things - monitoring, log aggregation, and profiling."
"The observability on offer is the most useful aspect of the product."
"The most valuable aspect is the APM which can monitor the metrics and latencies."
"It has turned into an operational dashboard. If you felt something is going wrong, you can immediately open up Datadog. It has been our go to application because we know the answer will be there."
"Spectrum is great for root cause analysis. It has excellent correlation event management. Spectrum's stability and scalability are also amazing."
"The most valuable feature is automatic discovery."
"The fault management is perfect."
"Spectrum is very useful for us, because the product lets us monitor and control all the various components of our infrastructure that support our business from an IT perspective."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to put health checks in place not only for the infrastructure but for some of the services that are on top of the infrastructure."
"Spectrum does such a great job of discovering our network that we have a high confidence in what our inventory is."
"The presentation layer is pretty simple and straightforward."
"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 Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I would like the tooling to have better integration in Slack, specifically sending out reminders to the relevant people to take breaks, do a retrospective, and specify with emojis which messages to log."
"All solutions have some area to improve, and in Datadog they can improve their overall technology moving forward."
"The parallel editing of the dashboards should not cause users to lose the work of another person."
"There is occasional UI slowness and bugs."
"Lacks some flexibility in the customization."
"We have contact with many customers that cover many areas, so we have cases where the infrastructure administration could be improved."
"Their security features could be improved. We looked at their Security Monitoring feature but it was early in its development. Datadog are just getting into the security space so I'm sure this will improve in the future."
"We would like to see some versioning system for the Synthetic Tests so that we could have a backup of our tests since they are time-consuming to make and very easy to damage in a moment of error."
"The solution could improve by allowing the ability to monitor the network shortly after installing the software and adding an auto-discovery function."
"Huawei devices are not properly supported, and there are incompatibility issues related to certain protocols."
"Technical support for this product is not so good. It needs improvement."
"It needs better integration with other CA products."
"The upgrade process could be smoother. More of the steps around upgrading could be automated."
"We have had one support issue that's been open for a couple of months, and it is currently open."
"If they could interact with the MIBs of vendors better, and have a lot more pre-loaded ones, that would be amazing for us right now."
"We have had some issues with the spec server and the high availability replication of data. It fails over well, but it does not come back very well. We get duplicated events."
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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