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 given us near-live visibility across our entire cloud platform."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the APM."
"Datadog documentation on web pages has improved a lot and is pretty easy to follow and find."
"Profiling has been made easier."
"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."
"Having a wealth of information has helped us investigate outages, and having historical data helps us tune our system."
"I have found error reporting and log centralization the most valuable features. Overall, Datadog provides a full package solution."
"The solution allows flexibility and heightened observability for presenting data, creating indicators, and setting service-level objectives."
"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."
"The solution's most valuable features are its integration with Broadcom tools and scalability."
"Offers a lot of functionality."
"The capability of handling and monitoring with SNMP and working with the SNMP traps is much better than other products."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the event correlation mechanism."
"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."
"The most valuable features of DX Spectrum are the comprehensive alerts."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"ECS could be improved by including more tutorials for beginners to reduce the barriers to entry."
"Datadog needs more local Asia-Pacific support, and if they don't have a SaaS solution in Asia-Pacific, they should offer an on-prem version. I'm told that's not possible."
"The solution should provide alerts for cloud outages."
"Even though it is powerful on its own, the UI-based design lacks elegance, efficiency, and complexity."
"We need to learn more about the session reply feature inside of DD."
"It does not have the best interface."
"There are things about it that we would like to be fixed, such as it is taking averages of average. This results in data that we don't expect."
"Datadog is so feature-rich that it is often hard to onboard new folks and tough to decide where to invest time."
"I think the management or configuration of devices needs some improvement."
"The CA Technologies sales team destroyed their relationship with our business units."
"Technical support for this product is not so good. It needs improvement."
"DX Spectrum needs to incorporate faster support."
"A better integration with the UIM, as far as being able to do root cause analysis and that type of analytics."
"The visual is a little archaic."
"We have a lot of different monitoring tools in the background, so orchestration has been a little bit of a challenge."
"If they could interact with the MIBs of vendors better, and have a lot more pre-loaded ones, that would be amazing for us right now."
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 ThousandEyes. See our DX Spectrum vs. Datadog report.
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