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."
"I like that you can build out a dashboard pretty quickly. There are some things that come out of the box that you don't really need to do, which is great because they're default settings."
"Having a clear view, not only of our infrastructure but our apps and services as well, has brought a great added value to our customers."
"Excellent autocomplete for everything in the UI."
"Datadog has given us near-live visibility across our entire cloud platform."
"It has provided visibility with ease of implementation and allowed multiple teams to quickly onboard it."
"The product has offered increased visibility via logging APM, metrics, RUM, etc."
"The infrastructure monitoring capabilities are really valuable. You can just log on and see everything that is happening within an IT environment."
"The most valuable aspects of the product include the APM and profiler."
"It is easy to navigate."
"It is very stable. We have not had any major issues in over 10 years."
"The containerization of different objects was very helpful in building an org structure. Being able to separately manage your MSP clients with separate visibility was also helpful."
"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 presentation layer is pretty simple and straightforward."
"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 solution's most valuable features are its integration with Broadcom tools and scalability."
"The most valuable features of DX Spectrum are the comprehensive alerts."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Datadog could have a better business analysis module."
"We primarily use the log management functionality, and the only feedback I have there is better fuzzy text searching in logs (the kind that Kibana has)."
"The pricing is a bit confusing."
"The ease of implementation needs improvement."
"More granular control over dashboard sharing. Timeboard sharing."
"It is very difficult to make the solutions fit perfectly for large organizations, especially in terms of high cardinality objects and multi-tenancy, where the data needs to be rolled up to a summarized level while maintaining its individual data granularity and identifiers."
"The parallel editing of the dashboards should not cause users to lose the work of another person."
"Auto instrumentation on tracing has not been very easy to find in the documentation."
"The product should provide performance management features."
"It's not a great performance management tool. Its reporting capabilities are not very good at all."
"DX Spectrum needs to incorporate faster support."
"If they could interact with the MIBs of vendors better, and have a lot more pre-loaded ones, that would be amazing for us right now."
"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."
"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."
"The solution could improve by allowing the ability to monitor the network shortly after installing the software and adding an auto-discovery function."
"There's a little bit of complexity to the initial install because you're dealing with operating systems. You have to make sure all the prerequisites are done, anti-virus exceptions, etc. Then there's the bringing it up and then there's discovery of the network and setting that up. It takes time."
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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