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."
"Flame graphs are pretty useful for understanding how GraphQL resolves our federated queries when it comes to identifying slow points in our requests. In our microservice environment with 170 services."
"The solution allows flexibility and heightened observability for presenting data, creating indicators, and setting service-level objectives."
"I like that you can build out a dashboard pretty quickly. There are some things that come out of the box that you don't really need to do, which is great because they're default settings."
"We have a better grasp of what is occurring during the deployment cycle. If something fails, we have an idea what has failed, where it has failed, and how it failed to better mitigate the situation."
"Datadog helps us detect issues early on and helps in troubleshooting."
"Datadog agents act as an integration to different services, providing easy access and management."
"The feature I have found most valuable is when I can reuse existing monitors and alerts for new dashboards."
"The tools are powerful and intuitive to set up."
"The stability of the product is key. It never breaks, really. The stability and reliability of the Spectrum product have been top-notch."
"The most valuable feature is the event correlation mechanism."
"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."
"I can use it to detect whenever things go wrong on my network."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to put health checks in place not only for the infrastructure but for some of the services that are on top of the infrastructure."
"It's a good tool. It's simple to do the configuration."
"The integration point."
"The fault management is perfect."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"More granular control over dashboard sharing. Timeboard sharing."
"Datadog is so feature-rich that it is often hard to onboard new folks and tough to decide where to invest time."
"I would love to see more metrics or analytics in IoT devices."
"Auto instrumentation on tracing has not been very easy to find in the documentation."
"I would like the tooling to have better integration in Slack, specifically sending out reminders to the relevant people to take breaks, do a retrospective, and specify with emojis which messages to log."
"We have contact with many customers that cover many areas, so we have cases where the infrastructure administration could be improved."
"They need to implement template variables into the message response body."
"I would like better navigability across pages."
"OS monitoring needs to be better developed, as well as their services, e.g., cluster monitoring, URLs, etc."
"Event correlation only works on one server, rather than on all of the servers in the same cluster environment."
"We want to make our own choice for the AIOps solution and do not want to be forced to use the Broadcom OI solution by default."
"The solution could improve by allowing the ability to monitor the network shortly after installing the software and adding an auto-discovery function."
"DX Spectrum could be improved by them getting rid of the Java console. It would also be better with Turkish language support."
"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."
"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."
"I would suggest improving the web GUI to improve the device monitor configuration and to improve or to integrate the new tool for reporting."
Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 136 reviews while DX Spectrum is ranked 14th 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 HPE Intelligent Management Center. See our DX Spectrum vs. Datadog report.
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