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."
"For us to have visibility into our app stack and the hardware we run has been highly beneficial."
"We like the distributed tracing and flame graphs for debugging. This has been invaluable for us during periods of high traffic or red alert conditions."
"The solution has improved the organization by providing good insights into app performance and offering good dashboards."
"The observability on offer is the most useful aspect of the product."
"Going from viewing a metric to creating a monitor alerting on a metric is very easy."
"We really like the charts and visualization."
"The platform appeals to companies spanning many industries on a global scale."
"The biggest thing I liked was the combination of all the things - monitoring, log aggregation, and profiling."
"The tool is very mature, and its valuable features are monitoring and configuration management."
"Discovery: Scheduled, on-demand, synchronized with eHealth."
"It is easy to understand and determine when and/or where the network is failing."
"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."
"It is easy to navigate."
"The most valuable features of DX Spectrum are the comprehensive alerts."
"The stability of the product is key. It never breaks, really. The stability and reliability of the Spectrum product have been top-notch."
"Scalable and stable network monitoring tool with a simple setup."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Since the Datadog platform has so many separate features, solving so many use cases, there are often inconsistencies in feature availability and interoperability between products."
"Ingesting data from various sources to monitor the log metrics of the system can always improve so that, if something goes wrong, the right teams are alerted."
"Sometimes it’s difficult to customize certain queries to find specific things, specifically with the logging solution."
"To be very fair, I haven't had enough experience with Datadog to pick out improvements."
"The sheer amount of products that are included can be overwhelming."
"I'm not sure what kind of features are in the roadmap right now, but I encourage the development of features for defining your organization, and allowing the visibility of what kind of metrics you can get. Those features would be really useful for us."
"Billing should be more transparent."
"It would also be nice if we had more insight into our own usage of Datadog (agents and custom metrics). They provide a usage page which does help, but it is not in real-time."
"From the users perspective the looks and feel of dashboards of Spectrum would be easier to use and for understanding as APM will be in 10.5 version which we saw in CA World."
"Needs better integration with all the other products in the Agile suite of tools; anything they could do to make that less complex, would be great."
"It doesn’t give you performance metrics: You need CA eHealth for this."
"DX Spectrum could be improved by them getting rid of the Java console. It would also be better with Turkish language support."
"OS monitoring needs to be better developed, as well as their services, e.g., cluster monitoring, URLs, etc."
"Integration with some other tools, and integration with some Network Packet Broker, need some improvement."
"The solution's stability needs improvement."
"I would like to see better scalability, and maybe, a more intuitive user interface. "
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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