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 is easy to implement and scale applications with standardized visibility, monitoring and alerting"
"The visibility into our network has allowed for quick diagnosis of failures, identification of underutilized or over-utilized resources, and allowed for cloud cost optimization opportunities."
"The solution is sufficiently stable."
"The flexibility to create notebooks and dashboards and fully customize them gives us a lot of power to track the exact services and endpoints we are working on."
"The many dozens of integrations that the solution brings out of the box are excellent."
"They have a very good foundation in capturing metrics, logs, and traces. It's a very nice tool for that and it allows you to apply these monitoring tools in almost any technology."
"Datadog has so far been a breeze to use and set up."
"It brings in observability, monitoring, and alerting capabilities - all of which we need to operate at scale."
"It is easy to understand and determine when and/or where the network is failing."
"Scalable and stable network monitoring tool with a simple setup."
"I have found the cross analysis feature to be the most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is automatic discovery."
"What I like best is the configuration management functionality."
"It covers a lot of different types of hardware. It can do a lot and saves us time."
"The most valuable feature is the auto-discovery, which is nice because you don't have to do anything to add a new component."
"Allows us to have a single console/notification point, with the alarms of all the tools that we use for monitoring."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Its pricing model can be improved. Its settings should be improved for a better understanding of billing. They should also provide some alerts when there is an increase in the usage. For example, if there is 20% more increase from one week to another, the customer should get an alert."
"It can have an artificial intelligence component. Even though I can seamlessly look at end-to-end security, it would be better to have alerts and notifications powered by an AI engine. I am not sure if they have an AI component. We have not reached out to them or looked at it, but this is something that I keep on talking about within our company in terms of features. Such a feature would be good to have, and it would further optimize my Security Ops team's abilities."
"We'd like Datadog to make the log storage cheaper."
"Datadog has a lot of documentation, but a lot of that documentation assumes you know how the service works, which can lead to confusion."
"Their security features could be improved. We looked at their Security Monitoring feature but it was early in its development. Datadog are just getting into the security space so I'm sure this will improve in the future."
"I find the training great. That said, it is set for the LCD (lowest common denominator). Of course, this is very helpful to sell the product, yet, to really utilize the product, you need to get more detailed."
"Even though it is powerful on its own, the UI-based design lacks elegance, efficiency, and complexity."
"I want to applaud the efforts in making the UI extremely usable and approachable. My suggestion would be to take another look at how the menu structure is put together, however. Even after using the platform mostly every day for months, I still find myself trying to find a service or feature in the menus."
"DX Spectrum needs better documentation on its complex features."
"Integration with some other tools, and integration with some Network Packet Broker, need some improvement."
"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."
"DX Spectrum needs to incorporate faster support."
"Event correlation only works on one server, rather than on all of the servers in the same cluster environment."
"The platform is complicated to use."
"The product should provide performance management features."
"I think the management or configuration of devices needs some improvement."
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 IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM). See our DX Spectrum vs. Datadog report.
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