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 solution has offered increased visibility via logging APM, metrics, RUM, etc."
"Excellent autocomplete for everything in the UI."
"The ability to send notifications based on metadata from the monitor is helpful."
"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 most valuable aspect of the solution is the APM."
"By moving to Datadog, we did not need to manage our own monitoring infrastructure anymore."
"The most valuable features are the dashboards and the reporting."
"The ease of correcting these dashboards and widgets when needed is amazing."
"The presentation layer is pretty simple and straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the auto-discovery, which is nice because you don't have to do anything to add a new component."
"Discovery: Scheduled, on-demand, synchronized with eHealth."
"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 capability of handling and monitoring with SNMP and working with the SNMP traps is much better than other products."
"The main thing is obviously notifications about alerts, getting ahead of the curve to make sure that we do not have system going down, or if it is down we get to know it earlier."
"Spectrum is great for root cause analysis. It has excellent correlation event management. Spectrum's stability and scalability are also amazing."
"The product’s stability and robustness are valuable."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"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."
"Ingesting data from various sources to monitor the log metrics of the system can always improve so that, if something goes wrong, the right teams are alerted."
"The current way accounts are billed could be vastly improved - especially when involving multiple organizations across multiple accounts in combination with reserved commitments."
"Sometimes, it takes a long time to load the dashboard if we have many charts."
"Federated views for Datadog dashboards are critical as large companies utilize multiple instances of the product and cannot link the metrics or correlate the metrics together. This stunts the usage of Datadog."
"We have recently had a number of issues with stability and delays on logging, monitoring, metric evaluation, and alerts."
"Some of the interface is still confusing to use."
"Delta traces on the Golang profiler are extremely expensive concerning memory utilization."
"We have had some issues with the spec server and the high availability replication of data. It fails over well, but it does not come back very well. We get duplicated events."
"A better integration with the UIM, as far as being able to do root cause analysis and that type of analytics."
"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."
"Huawei devices are not properly supported, and there are incompatibility issues related to certain protocols."
"The visual is a little archaic."
"There should be a facility to integrate with other monitoring applications that are currently running in the environment."
"The Spectrum OneClick is a Java-based client, and that's aging. Really, before any new feature integration, I'd love to see a comprehensive rebuild of the UI."
"The product should provide performance management features."
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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