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."
"Datadog's ability to group and visualize the servers and the data makes it relatively easy for the root cause analysis."
"The monitoring functionality, in general, and tagging infrastructure are great."
"The solution has improved the organization by providing good insights into app performance and offering good dashboards."
"Anything I've wanted to do, I found a way to get it done through Datadog."
"Its integration is most valuable because you can integrate it with various service providers such as AWS, .Net, etc."
"The fact that everything is under a single pane of glass is really valuable, as developers don't have to spend their time copying correlation IDs across tools to find what they need."
"We find they have a very helpful alert system."
"The ease of correcting these dashboards and widgets when needed is amazing."
"The presentation layer is pretty simple and straightforward."
"This product provides good visibility into applications at the backend."
"As the kind of enterprise that straddles the line between telco size and enterprise size, it scales for us, because we're not all the way at telco yet."
"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."
"I can use it to detect whenever things go wrong on my network."
"The solution's most valuable features are its integration with Broadcom tools and scalability."
"All networks (or network equipment) are monitored through CA Spectrum."
"It is easy to understand and determine when and/or where the network is failing."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Once Datadog has gained wide adoption, it can often be overwhelming to both know and understand where to go to find answers to questions."
"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."
"It would be ideal if the product offered a bit more monitoring from our dashboard."
"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."
"When it comes to storing the logs with Datadog, I'm not sure why it costs so much to store gigabytes or terabytes of information when it's a fraction of the cost to do so myself."
"The incident management beta looks promising, but it is still missing the ability to automatically create incidents based on certain alerts."
"The pricing model could be simplified as it feels a bit outdated, especially when you look at the billing model of compute instances vs the containers instances."
"The documentation leaves a lot to be desired for new users."
"The visual is a little archaic."
"The platform is complicated to use."
"DX Spectrum needs to incorporate faster support."
"The CA Technologies sales team destroyed their relationship with our business units."
"The interface is not nice and needs to be improved."
"DX Spectrum could be improved by them getting rid of the Java console. It would also be better with Turkish language support."
"It needs better integration with other CA products."
"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."
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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