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."
"Flame graphs are pretty useful for understanding how GraphQL resolves our federated queries when it comes to identifying slow points in our requests. In our microservice environment with 170 services."
"The many dozens of integrations that the solution brings out of the box are excellent."
"Datadog has so far been a breeze to use and set up."
"The most valuable aspect is the APM which can monitor the metrics and latencies."
"The management of SLOs and their related burn-rate monitors have allowed us to onboard teams to on-call fast."
"The most valuable feature I have found is the elastic container service."
"We have hundreds of microservices, and knowing how top-level requests weave throughout all of them is invaluable."
"This is definitely a good product and I would consider them one of the leaders within the application monitoring and cloud monitoring space."
"It's a good tool. It's simple to do the configuration."
"It is very stable. We have not had any major issues in over 10 years."
"It has a high-quality graphical interface."
"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."
"Spectrum is great for root cause analysis. It has excellent correlation event management. Spectrum's stability and scalability are also amazing."
"I have found the cross analysis feature to be the most valuable."
"Scalability is a highly rated feature of this solution. It is better than some of the other tools that I've used in terms of scalability. We scaled it to tens of thousands of devices."
"The most valuable features have been the interface and the ability to do equipment management."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It can have a more modernized pricing mechanism. We're actually working with them to figure out how to become more modular and have a better and more modernized pricing mechanism. The issue with Datadog is that you have to buy the whole suite of different products, and you kind of get stuck in the old utilization of 40% of their suite. Most organizations today break down between application development, networking, and security. Therefore, there should be a way to break down different modules into just app dev, infosec, networking, etc. Customers have various needs across their business lines, and sometimes, they're just not willing to have tools that they're not using 100%. AppDynamics is probably a little bit better in terms of being modular."
"Datadog lacks a deeper application-level insight. Their competitors had eclipsed them in offering ET functionality that was important to us. That's why we stopped using it and switched to New Relic. Datadog's price is also high."
"We have contact with many customers that cover many areas, so we have cases where the infrastructure administration could be improved."
"We need more visibility into the error tracking dashboard."
"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."
"The dashboard could be improved. It would be helpful to get a view of specific things that we need to monitor for our application."
"Some of the interface is still confusing to use."
"The current way accounts are billed could be vastly improved - especially when involving multiple organizations across multiple accounts in combination with reserved commitments."
"There should be better integration with other Broadcom products, like network performance manager. Currently, for every part of a product, you need a separate server environment. You have something for Spectrum, you have something for network performance, and you have something for NetFlow. There are a lot of islands and server farms with different technologies. They should be redeveloped to get one platform for all."
"The GIS map feature needs to be enhanced and synced with topology views of containers and global collections."
"The platform is complicated to use."
"Integration with some other tools, and integration with some Network Packet Broker, need some improvement."
"There should be a facility to integrate with other monitoring applications that are currently running in the environment."
"It was somewhat complex to implement."
"The CA Technologies sales team destroyed their relationship with our business units."
"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."
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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