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 solution is useful for monitoring logs."
"The most valuable features of Datadog are the flexibility and additional features when compared to other solutions, such as AppDynamics and Dynatrace. Some of the features include AI and ML capabilities and cloud and analysis monitoring"
"I have found the logging and tracing features the most valuable."
"The tool's deployment is easy."
"It has scaled great. I haven't run into any problems anywhere that I've used it. They have handled everything that we have needed them to."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the APM."
"The ability to easily drill down into log queries quickly and efficiently has helped us to resolve several critical incidents."
"I really enjoy the RUM monitoring features of Datadog. It allows us to monitor user behavior in a way we couldn't before."
"The fault management is perfect."
"The product’s stability and robustness are valuable."
"Spectrum does such a great job of discovering our network that we have a high confidence in what our inventory is."
"It is easy to navigate."
"This product provides good visibility into applications at the backend."
"We were able to standardize the internal processes across all internal departments, resulting in almost an elimination of non-standard process flows through our organization."
"The stability of the product is key. It never breaks, really. The stability and reliability of the Spectrum product have been top-notch."
"The most valuable feature is automatic discovery."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Datadog could always lower the price!"
"The pricing is a bit confusing."
"We need more integration with security tools like Drata."
"We would like to see smaller or shorter tutorials and video sessions."
"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)."
"I found the documentation can sometimes be confusing."
"Managing dashboards as IaC is a bit hard to work out at times."
"The solution needs to integrate AI tools."
"It doesn't really allow for multi-tenancy. If you're an ISP or an MSP and you want to use this tool to provide these types of fault management services to your customers, you would need a separate SpectroSERVER for each customer..."
"DX Spectrum needs to incorporate faster support."
"The upgrade process could be smoother. More of the steps around upgrading could be automated."
"The biggest issue is our integration right now between UIM and Spectrum is lacking."
"For my use case, incident coordination was an area of improvement. The internal software engine for coordinating outages could use improvement because sometimes, we used to get false alerts for unrelated devices. They did a really good job of trying to make sure that you got one major alert and any of the subsequent devices downstream were just additions to that, but occasionally, the engine wouldn't properly catch the right things, and we used to get a flood of alerts."
"Its visualization can be improved. It doesn't have a very advanced GUI. It is very basic and simple, but it does work."
"Huawei devices are not properly supported, and there are incompatibility issues related to certain protocols."
"Technical support for this product is not so good. It needs 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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