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 documentation on web pages has improved a lot and is pretty easy to follow and find."
"The biggest thing I liked was the combination of all the things - monitoring, log aggregation, and profiling."
"It has saved us a lot of trouble in implementation."
"Datadog is constantly adding new features."
"The observability on offer is the most useful aspect of the product."
"Its integration is most valuable because you can integrate it with various service providers such as AWS, .Net, etc."
"I like that you can build out a dashboard pretty quickly. There are some things that come out of the box that you don't really need to do, which is great because they're default settings."
"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."
"The most valuable features have been the interface and the ability to do equipment management."
"It does correlation so instead of producing 20 alarms if a site goes down, it only creates one."
"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."
"Scalable and stable network monitoring tool with a simple setup."
"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."
"This product provides good visibility into applications at the backend."
"The tool is very mature, and its valuable features are monitoring and configuration management."
"I have found the cross analysis feature to be the most valuable."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The ability to find what you are looking for when starting out could be improved."
"To be very fair, I haven't had enough experience with Datadog to pick out improvements."
"For three to four months, we have been experiencing real-time delays. For example, if we're monitoring incoming traffic, the real-time status should be displayed up to a certain point. However, due to delays or issues with Datadog, the real-time data might only be updated at an earlier time. We are experiencing consistent delays in data updates from Datadog, with the most recent data often being delayed by about an hour. This issue has been ongoing for the past four months."
"Geo-data is also something very critical that we hope to see in the future."
"As a new customer, the Datadog user interface is a bit daunting."
"The installation is easy for me. However, if you are new to this solution it might not be so easy."
"Deploying the agents is still very manual."
"They should continue expanding and integrating with more third-party apps."
"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..."
"The interface is not nice and needs to be improved."
"I think the management or configuration of devices needs some improvement."
"The product should provide performance management features."
"There's a little bit of complexity to the initial install because you're dealing with operating systems. You have to make sure all the prerequisites are done, anti-virus exceptions, etc. Then there's the bringing it up and then there's discovery of the network and setting that up. It takes time."
"From the users perspective the looks and feel of dashboards of Spectrum would be easier to use and for understanding as APM will be in 10.5 version which we saw in CA World."
"DX Spectrum could be improved by them getting rid of the Java console. It would also be better with Turkish language support."
"The biggest issue is our integration right now between UIM and Spectrum is lacking."
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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