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 dashboards are great."
"Datadog has flexibility."
"Datadog has proven to be easy to set up and legible for both development and operational teams."
"It is great that creating an incident is possible from Slack while having all the relevant data in Datadog."
"Using the data, our operation teams works with the dashboards to get their statistics, analytics, etc."
"With Datadog I can look at the health of the technology stack and services."
"We can handle debugging and find out why things are breaking in our applications."
"It has a high-level insight into the infrastructure model of the application and provides important detailed data on the host and metrics, which is the main concern of our customers."
"Spectrum does such a great job of discovering our network that we have a high confidence in what our inventory is."
"It's a good tool. It's simple to do the configuration."
"It does correlation so instead of producing 20 alarms if a site goes down, it only creates one."
"The most valuable features of DX Spectrum are the comprehensive alerts."
"The most valuable features have been the interface and the ability to do equipment management."
"The quick notification of issues, quick alerting because timeliness is always valuable, it's very important for us."
"Spectrum is very useful for us, because the product lets us monitor and control all the various components of our infrastructure that support our business from an IT perspective."
"Stability has been good. We really have not had any issues."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Federated views for Datadog dashboards are critical as large companies utilize multiple instances of the product and cannot link the metrics or correlate the metrics together. This stunts the usage of Datadog."
"Even though it is powerful on its own, the UI-based design lacks elegance, efficiency, and complexity."
"The solution needs to integrate AI tools."
"Datadog is so feature-rich that it is often hard to onboard new folks and tough to decide where to invest time."
"The setup was a bit complex."
"There is occasional UI slowness and bugs."
"More granular control over dashboard sharing. Timeboard sharing."
"It can have an artificial intelligence component. Even though I can seamlessly look at end-to-end security, it would be better to have alerts and notifications powered by an AI engine. I am not sure if they have an AI component. We have not reached out to them or looked at it, but this is something that I keep on talking about within our company in terms of features. Such a feature would be good to have, and it would further optimize my Security Ops team's abilities."
"We have had one support issue that's been open for a couple of months, and it is currently open."
"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."
"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."
"DX Spectrum could be improved by them getting rid of the Java console. It would also be better with Turkish language support."
"I would suggest improving the web GUI to improve the device monitor configuration and to improve or to integrate the new tool for reporting."
"It takes some time to learn how to use this solution."
"The solution's stability needs improvement."
"I would recommend AI capability built-in so it becomes more predictable and we jump ahead of the curve. This is the one really important feature I would really like to see in any product that provides alarms."
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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