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 has so far been a breeze to use and set up."
"Datadog has a lot of features to be able to drill down deep into the swath of logs that our platforms generate."
"The ingestion points are unlimited and support customization. We haven't had anything yet that we haven't been able to integrate with it."
"Datadog has flexibility."
"Datadog has clear dashboards and good documentation."
"Overall, the Data UI and the usability of customer features continue to improve."
"The network map is crucial in identifying bottlenecks and determining what needs more attention."
"The most valuable features are logging, the extensive set of integrations, and easy jumpstart."
"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 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."
"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 monitoring just comes to us: "Oh, there's something wrong with that machine." It tells us. There are some 50,000 machines or so, all doing different things. And if they go down we hear about it."
"Discovery: Scheduled, on-demand, synchronized with eHealth."
"It does correlation so instead of producing 20 alarms if a site goes down, it only creates one."
"Offers a lot of functionality."
"Stability has been good. We really have not had any issues."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Datadog could improve the flexibility with AI and ML concepts. This will allow customers to be more leveraged towards publishing."
"I sometimes log in and see items changed, either in the UI or a feature enabled. To see it for the first time without proper communication can sometimes come as a shock."
"We need a lot of modules since we collect all data logs from all operating systems."
"The pricing model could be simplified as it feels a bit outdated, especially when you look at the billing model of compute instances vs the containers instances."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 product is quite complex, and there are so many features that I either didn't know about or wasn't sure how to use."
"I found the solution to be stable, I did not experience any bugs or glitches. However, some of the managing team did."
"The on-premise version is very difficult to upgrade."
"All solutions have some area to improve, and in Datadog they can improve their overall technology moving forward."
"Technical support for this product is not so good. It needs improvement."
"The upgrade process could be smoother. More of the steps around upgrading could be automated."
"Integration with some other tools, and integration with some Network Packet Broker, need some improvement."
"DX Spectrum could be improved by them getting rid of the Java console. It would also be better with Turkish language support."
"The biggest issue is our integration right now between UIM and Spectrum is lacking."
"For us, the implementation was quite complex but it's because of the large number of different environments we're dealing with."
"There should be a facility to integrate with other monitoring applications that are currently running in the environment."
"We have had one support issue that's been open for a couple of months, and it is currently open."
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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