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 like the amount of tooling and the number of solutions they sold with their monitoring. Datadog was highly intuitive to use."
"The most useful feature is the APM."
"The tools are powerful and intuitive to set up."
"The CCM, Workflows, Logs, APM, and RUM are all useful aspects of the solution."
"The integration and configuration are incredibly simple. The SaaS offering is remarkably easy to set up, especially if you're coming from a Graphite environment or anything that uses a StatsD."
"We have found that we're able to get in and out of troubleshooting issues much more rapidly, which in turn, of course, enables us to spend more time on our products."
"The ease with which we can filter, use metrics, and give accounts to customers, then let the customer filter, set up metrics, and alerts. This has been a big win for us."
"The Spectrum tool improved our network assurance levels for our business units."
"Allows us to have a single console/notification point, with the alarms of all the tools that we use for monitoring."
"I can use it to detect whenever things go wrong on my network."
"The most valuable features have been the interface and the ability to do equipment management."
"The most valuable features of DX Spectrum are the comprehensive alerts."
"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."
"This product provides good visibility into applications at the backend."
"It covers a lot of different types of hardware. It can do a lot and saves us time."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I sometimes log in and see items changed, either in the UI or a feature enabled. To see it for the first time without proper communication can sometimes come as a shock."
"The FinOps needs improvement."
"To be very fair, I haven't had enough experience with Datadog to pick out improvements."
"At times, it can be hard to generate metrics out of logs."
"We have contact with many customers that cover many areas, so we have cases where the infrastructure administration could be improved."
"I would like testing for data in the future."
"It can have a more modernized pricing mechanism. We're actually working with them to figure out how to become more modular and have a better and more modernized pricing mechanism. The issue with Datadog is that you have to buy the whole suite of different products, and you kind of get stuck in the old utilization of 40% of their suite. Most organizations today break down between application development, networking, and security. Therefore, there should be a way to break down different modules into just app dev, infosec, networking, etc. Customers have various needs across their business lines, and sometimes, they're just not willing to have tools that they're not using 100%. AppDynamics is probably a little bit better in terms of being modular."
"While the tool is robust with many different capabilities, users would greatly benefit from more examples in the documentation."
"There should be a facility to integrate with other monitoring applications that are currently running in the environment."
"The CA Technologies sales team destroyed their relationship with our business units."
"The visual is a little archaic."
"DX Spectrum needs to incorporate faster support."
"Needs better integration with all the other products in the Agile suite of tools; anything they could do to make that less complex, would be great."
"It doesn’t give you performance metrics: You need CA eHealth for this."
"The solution's stability needs improvement."
"I would like to see better scalability, and maybe, a more intuitive user interface. "
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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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