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 most valuable features are logging, the extensive set of integrations, and easy jumpstart."
"It has a nice UI."
"We've found it most useful for managing Rstudio Workbench, which has its own logs that would not be picked up via Cloudwatch."
"Excellent autocomplete for everything in the UI."
"The application performance monitoring is pretty good."
"The most valuable aspect is for us to have everything in one place."
"The tools are powerful and intuitive to set up."
"The ingestion points are unlimited and support customization. We haven't had anything yet that we haven't been able to integrate with it."
"The Global Collections are what I found to be most valuable. With the Global Collections, you're able to organize and categorize devices into "folders," or functional groups and categories, so that it doesn't matter which SpectroSERVER those devices are on."
"It helps our NetOps group actually handle alarms in a way that lets them see the bigger picture of those alarms, and how they might affect our services. It helps us communicate information about the network state better to services that might be impacted by a specific network condition."
"It covers a lot of different types of hardware. It can do a lot and saves us time."
"Offers a lot of functionality."
"Discovery: Scheduled, on-demand, synchronized with eHealth."
"It is easy to understand and determine when and/or where the network is failing."
"It's a good tool. It's simple to do the configuration."
"I have found the cross analysis feature to be the most valuable."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"There is occasional UI slowness and bugs."
"Billing should be more transparent."
"I would like testing for data in the future."
"Managing dashboards as IaC is a bit hard to work out at times."
"It does not have the best interface."
"Datadog has a lot of features kind of cramped into one dashboard. It's quite hard to get around what feature does exactly what. There was a steep learning curve, trying to navigate through menus."
"I've only been using Datadog for a few months, and at first, it was frankly overwhelming in terms of both the UI and the available capabilities."
"Sometimes, it takes a long time to load the dashboard if we have many charts."
"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."
"There should be a facility to integrate with other monitoring applications that are currently running in the environment."
"The CA Technologies sales team destroyed their relationship with our business units."
"Our consultant was four months on-site doing Spectrum setup and working through issues."
"For us, the implementation was quite complex but it's because of the large number of different environments we're dealing with."
"From a functionality perspective, the product is not doing what it should. Also, there are some concerns about the accessibility. I would appreciate additional out-of-the-box troubleshooting scripts, like templates for addressing various issues. Currently, when troubleshooting online, I need to create my scripts. It would be beneficial if the platform could provide pre-built scripts or templates to help automate certain troubleshooting tasks."
"The platform is complicated to use."
"OS monitoring needs to be better developed, as well as their services, e.g., cluster monitoring, URLs, etc."
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 Elastic Observability, 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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