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."
"The solution has offered increased visibility via logging APM, metrics, RUM, etc."
"With Datadog I can look at the health of the technology stack and services."
"They have a very good foundation in capturing metrics, logs, and traces. It's a very nice tool for that and it allows you to apply these monitoring tools in almost any technology."
"The product has offered increased visibility via logging APM, metrics, RUM, etc."
"Datadog is providing efficiency in the products we develop for the wireless device engineering department."
"The dashboards and the performance of the software have been great."
"The CCM, Workflows, Logs, APM, and RUM are all useful aspects of the solution."
"All networks (or network equipment) are monitored through CA Spectrum."
"Offers a lot of functionality."
"The most valuable feature is automatic discovery."
"It does correlation so instead of producing 20 alarms if a site goes down, it only creates one."
"The granular access control that it provided so that you could only see devices that were related to what you were working on was great. I couldn't see the entire inventory of devices. I could only see the ones that were related to my work. It has got a very granular access control component."
"It has a high-quality graphical interface."
"The stability of the product is key. It never breaks, really. The stability and reliability of the Spectrum product have been top-notch."
"It's a good tool. It's simple to do the configuration."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The product needs to have more enterprise approach to configuration."
"The documentation leaves a lot to be desired for new users."
"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 installation is easy for me. However, if you are new to this solution it might not be so easy."
"Stability of the product has been a concern for us outside of the primary monitoring agents."
"While the tool is robust with many different capabilities, users would greatly benefit from more examples in the documentation."
"Could be a little more user friendly."
"Deploying the agents is still very manual."
"For my use case, incident coordination was an area of improvement. The internal software engine for coordinating outages could use improvement because sometimes, we used to get false alerts for unrelated devices. They did a really good job of trying to make sure that you got one major alert and any of the subsequent devices downstream were just additions to that, but occasionally, the engine wouldn't properly catch the right things, and we used to get a flood of alerts."
"For us, the implementation was quite complex but it's because of the large number of different environments we're dealing with."
"It doesn’t give you performance metrics: You need CA eHealth for this."
"Integration with some other tools, and integration with some Network Packet Broker, need some 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."
"Its visualization can be improved. It doesn't have a very advanced GUI. It is very basic and simple, but it does work."
"It takes some time to learn how to use this solution."
"The upgrade process could be smoother. More of the steps around upgrading could be automated."
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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