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."
"It is great that creating an incident is possible from Slack while having all the relevant data in Datadog."
"It has provided visibility with ease of implementation and allowed multiple teams to quickly onboard it."
"Overall, the Data UI and the usability of customer features continue to improve."
"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."
"Datadog has clear dashboards and good documentation."
"I really enjoy the RUM monitoring features of Datadog. It allows us to monitor user behavior in a way we couldn't before."
"Datadog documentation on web pages has improved a lot and is pretty easy to follow and find."
"What I like best is the configuration management functionality."
"We can monitor MPLS network VPN, network configuration, and backups. It's highly scalable for network configuration management."
"The Global Collections are what I found to be most valuable. With the Global Collections, you're able to organize and categorize devices into "folders," or functional groups and categories, so that it doesn't matter which SpectroSERVER those devices are on."
"The stability of the product is key. It never breaks, really. The stability and reliability of the Spectrum product have been top-notch."
"We can plan changes and replacement of end-of-life products in our environment very well because it's very accurate."
"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."
"Spectrum does such a great job of discovering our network that we have a high confidence in what our inventory is."
"The main thing is obviously notifications about alerts, getting ahead of the curve to make sure that we do not have system going down, or if it is down we get to know it earlier."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"While the tool is robust with many different capabilities, users would greatly benefit from more examples in the documentation."
"Alerting timing should be improved to be more fine-tuned and exact."
"The product needs to have more enterprise approach to configuration."
"The FinOps needs improvement."
"I'm not sure what kind of features are in the roadmap right now, but I encourage the development of features for defining your organization, and allowing the visibility of what kind of metrics you can get. Those features would be really useful for us."
"Datadog is expensive."
"The setup was a bit complex."
"It is very difficult to make the solutions fit perfectly for large organizations, especially in terms of high cardinality objects and multi-tenancy, where the data needs to be rolled up to a summarized level while maintaining its individual data granularity and identifiers."
"I think the management or configuration of devices needs some improvement."
"It takes some time to learn how to use this solution."
"We have had some issues with the spec server and the high availability replication of data. It fails over well, but it does not come back very well. We get duplicated events."
"Make it easier to certify devices."
"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 visual is a little archaic."
"It needs better integration with other CA products."
"Our consultant was four months on-site doing Spectrum setup and working through issues."
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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