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 clear dashboards and good documentation."
"Datadog helps us detect issues early on and helps in troubleshooting."
"It is a good one stop location where we keep all our data for our infrastructure, and it's also easier to navigate between different things."
"With Datadog I can look at the health of the technology stack and services."
"The ability to send notifications based on metadata from the monitor is helpful."
"Thanks to the logs, we manage to make better reports through Jira and also to trace the request with more facility than we would be able to do otherwise."
"The solution has improved the organization by providing good insights into app performance and offering good dashboards."
"It has empowered all our platform engineers with a very powerful and easy to use monitoring system."
"We can monitor MPLS network VPN, network configuration, and backups. It's highly scalable for network configuration management."
"The tool is very mature, and its valuable features are monitoring and configuration management."
"It does correlation so instead of producing 20 alarms if a site goes down, it only creates one."
"It covers a lot of different types of hardware. It can do a lot and saves us time."
"The presentation layer is pretty simple and straightforward."
"I have found the cross analysis feature to be the most valuable."
"All networks (or network equipment) are monitored through CA Spectrum."
"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 Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"At times, it can be hard to generate metrics out of logs."
"Datadog has a lot of documentation, but a lot of that documentation assumes you know how the service works, which can lead to confusion."
"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."
"Geo-data is also something very critical that we hope to see in the future."
"If there were a more cost-effective manner of deploying the tool, we'd be more likely to adopt it more widely."
"In the past two years, there have been a couple of outages."
"One thing we have run into is that it is so easy to add monitoring that we turn on things without really understanding the costs."
"They need to implement template variables into the message response body."
"If the integration is simplified or improved, it will be a unique selling point in comparison to the competition on the market."
"It takes some time to learn how to use this solution."
"The biggest issue is our integration right now between UIM and Spectrum is lacking."
"The Spectrum OneClick is a Java-based client, and that's aging. Really, before any new feature integration, I'd love to see a comprehensive rebuild of the UI."
"Technical support for this product is not so good. It needs improvement."
"There's a little bit of complexity to the initial install because you're dealing with operating systems. You have to make sure all the prerequisites are done, anti-virus exceptions, etc. Then there's the bringing it up and then there's discovery of the network and setting that up. It takes time."
"It doesn’t give you performance metrics: You need CA eHealth for this."
"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."
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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