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."
"It has provided visibility with ease of implementation and allowed multiple teams to quickly onboard it."
"The tool's deployment is easy."
"It brings in observability, monitoring, and alerting capabilities - all of which we need to operate at scale."
"Because of our client focus, it is easy for us to sell. This is because it is easy to use and easy to set up."
"The ease of correcting these dashboards and widgets when needed is amazing."
"APM and tracing are super useful."
"We find they have a very helpful alert system."
"The most valuable feature of Datadog is its logs."
"The quick notification of issues, quick alerting because timeliness is always valuable, it's very important for us."
"It is easy to understand and determine when and/or where the network is failing."
"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."
"We can monitor MPLS network VPN, network configuration, and backups. It's highly scalable for network configuration management."
"The granular access control that it provided so that you could only see devices that were related to what you were working on was great. I couldn't see the entire inventory of devices. I could only see the ones that were related to my work. It has got a very granular access control component."
"The tool is very mature, and its valuable features are monitoring and configuration management."
"All networks (or network equipment) are monitored through CA Spectrum."
"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."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The parallel editing of the dashboards should not cause users to lose the work of another person."
"This service could be less costly."
"Geo-data is also something very critical that we hope to see in the future."
"They need to implement template variables into the message response body."
"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."
"When the logs are too big, and Datadog splits them, the JSON format breaks and it is not so useful for us."
"Managing dashboards as IaC is a bit hard to work out at times."
"Once Datadog has gained wide adoption, it can often be overwhelming to both know and understand where to go to find answers to questions."
"The upgrade process could be smoother. More of the steps around upgrading could be automated."
"For my use case, incident coordination was an area of improvement. The internal software engine for coordinating outages could use improvement because sometimes, we used to get false alerts for unrelated devices. They did a really good job of trying to make sure that you got one major alert and any of the subsequent devices downstream were just additions to that, but occasionally, the engine wouldn't properly catch the right things, and we used to get a flood of alerts."
"A better integration with the UIM, as far as being able to do root cause analysis and that type of analytics."
"I think the management or configuration of devices needs some improvement."
"Our consultant was four months on-site doing Spectrum setup and working through issues."
"The GIS map feature needs to be enhanced and synced with topology views of containers and global collections."
"If the integration is simplified or improved, it will be a unique selling point in comparison to the competition on the market."
"From a functionality perspective, the product is not doing what it should. Also, there are some concerns about the accessibility. I would appreciate additional out-of-the-box troubleshooting scripts, like templates for addressing various issues. Currently, when troubleshooting online, I need to create my scripts. It would be beneficial if the platform could provide pre-built scripts or templates to help automate certain troubleshooting tasks."
Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 136 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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