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."
"Its logs are most valuable."
"Integrating Datadog with other platforms has made our monitoring processes a bit easier. It's not super simple, but it's manageable."
"We have hundreds of microservices, and knowing how top-level requests weave throughout all of them is invaluable."
"I have found error reporting and log centralization the most valuable features. Overall, Datadog provides a full package solution."
"The platform appeals to companies spanning many industries on a global scale."
"Datadog documentation on web pages has improved a lot and is pretty easy to follow and find."
"Datadog has made it much easier to have a central place for people to look for logs and made it much easier to notify them of any elevated error rates or failures."
"Datadog has clear dashboards and good documentation."
"The stability of the product is key. It never breaks, really. The stability and reliability of the Spectrum product have been top-notch."
"The most valuable feature is the auto-discovery, which is nice because you don't have to do anything to add a new component."
"The product’s stability and robustness are valuable."
"It is easy to understand and determine when and/or where the network is failing."
"The most valuable feature is automatic discovery."
"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 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 most valuable feature is the event correlation mechanism."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"They could have better log reporting."
"At times, it can be hard to generate metrics out of logs."
"Stability of the product has been a concern for us outside of the primary monitoring agents."
"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."
"The sheer amount of products that are included can be overwhelming."
"The dashboard could be improved. It would be helpful to get a view of specific things that we need to monitor for our application."
"At the beginning, when we started throwing logs at it, there was a bit of hiccup. However, this was during their beta period, so hiccups were expected."
"The product needs a better Datadog agent installation."
"It takes some time to learn how to use this solution."
"I would suggest improving the web GUI to improve the device monitor configuration and to improve or to integrate the new tool for reporting."
"The solution could improve by allowing the ability to monitor the network shortly after installing the software and adding an auto-discovery function."
"We want to make our own choice for the AIOps solution and do not want to be forced to use the Broadcom OI solution by default."
"We have had one support issue that's been open for a couple of months, and it is currently open."
"The biggest issue is our integration right now between UIM and Spectrum is lacking."
"There should be better integration with other Broadcom products, like network performance manager. Currently, for every part of a product, you need a separate server environment. You have something for Spectrum, you have something for network performance, and you have something for NetFlow. There are a lot of islands and server farms with different technologies. They should be redeveloped to get one platform for all."
"Integration with some other tools, and integration with some Network Packet Broker, need some 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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