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."
"I like the amount of tooling and the number of solutions they sold with their monitoring. Datadog was highly intuitive to use."
"It has a nice UI."
"It helps us better manage our logs."
"The seamless integration between Datadog and hundreds of apps makes onboarding new products and teams a breeze."
"The infrastructure monitoring capabilities are really valuable. You can just log on and see everything that is happening within an IT environment."
"The integration and configuration are incredibly simple. The SaaS offering is remarkably easy to set up, especially if you're coming from a Graphite environment or anything that uses a StatsD."
"Datadog is providing efficiency in the products we develop for the wireless device engineering department."
"We have way more observability than what we had before - on the application and the overall system."
"I can use it to detect whenever things go wrong on my network."
"The capability of handling and monitoring with SNMP and working with the SNMP traps is much better than other products."
"Spectrum is great for root cause analysis. It has excellent correlation event management. Spectrum's stability and scalability are also amazing."
"It is easy to navigate."
"We can plan changes and replacement of end-of-life products in our environment very well because it's very accurate."
"As the kind of enterprise that straddles the line between telco size and enterprise size, it scales for us, because we're not all the way at telco yet."
"Offers a lot of functionality."
"The most valuable feature is automatic discovery."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"To be very fair, I haven't had enough experience with Datadog to pick out improvements."
"The FinOps needs improvement."
"Datadog does not have the feature where you can monitor external websites or check the SSL secure for websites."
"The way data is represented can be limiting. When I first tried it out a long time ago, you could graph a metric and another metric, and they'd overlay, but you couldn't take the ratio between the two."
"The dashboard could be improved. It would be helpful to get a view of specific things that we need to monitor for our application."
"The error traceability is an area that can be improved."
"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."
"The product needs a better Datadog agent installation."
"I would suggest improving the web GUI to improve the device monitor configuration and to improve or to integrate the new tool for reporting."
"The visual is a little archaic."
"Our consultant was four months on-site doing Spectrum setup and working through issues."
"The interface is not nice and needs to be improved."
"We have had one support issue that's been open for a couple of months, and it is currently open."
"It was somewhat complex to implement."
"Technical support for this product is not so good. It needs improvement."
"From a functionality perspective, the product is not doing what it should. Also, there are some concerns about the accessibility. I would appreciate additional out-of-the-box troubleshooting scripts, like templates for addressing various issues. Currently, when troubleshooting online, I need to create my scripts. It would be beneficial if the platform could provide pre-built scripts or templates to help automate certain troubleshooting tasks."
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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