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."
"APM and tracing are super useful."
"We rely heavily on the API crawlers that Datadog uses for cloud integrations. These allow us to pick up and leverage the tags teams have already deployed without having also to make them add them at the agent level."
"It brings in observability, monitoring, and alerting capabilities - all of which we need to operate at scale."
"The product has offered increased visibility via logging APM, metrics, RUM, etc."
"The observability pipelines are the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"It has provided visibility with ease of implementation and allowed multiple teams to quickly onboard it."
"The interface and the integrations make it so easy to connect to the cloud or to the on-premise environment."
"By moving to Datadog, we did not need to manage our own monitoring infrastructure anymore."
"Discovery: Scheduled, on-demand, synchronized with eHealth."
"It's a good tool. It's simple to do the configuration."
"It is easy to understand and determine when and/or where the network is failing."
"The tool is very mature, and its valuable features are monitoring and configuration management."
"Spectrum does such a great job of discovering our network that we have a high confidence in what our inventory is."
"The most valuable feature is the auto-discovery, which is nice because you don't have to do anything to add a new component."
"We can monitor MPLS network VPN, network configuration, and backups. It's highly scalable for network configuration management."
"The presentation layer is pretty simple and straightforward."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"They should continue expanding and integrating with more third-party apps."
"Sometimes it’s difficult to customize certain queries to find specific things, specifically with the logging solution."
"It can be overwhelming for new people as it has a lot of features."
"Datadog isn't as mature as some of the established players like Dynatrace or Splunk. It's a new product, so they are constantly releasing new features, and I don't have much to complain about."
"There is always room for improvement when dealing with cloud-based technologies. Mainly, I would say, it's just increasing our offerings to attract various other types of industries and businesses across more fields."
"Could be a little more user friendly."
"The ability to find what you are looking for when starting out could be improved."
"We have asked technical support questions, and sometimes they don't get back to us right away. Or when they do, it is not the right answer."
"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."
"It was somewhat complex to implement."
"A better integration with the UIM, as far as being able to do root cause analysis and that type of analytics."
"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."
"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..."
"I would recommend AI capability built-in so it becomes more predictable and we jump ahead of the curve. This is the one really important feature I would really like to see in any product that provides alarms."
"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."
"Technical support for this product is not so good. It needs improvement."
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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