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 don't have to worry about upgrades with the AWS version."
"We can handle debugging and find out why things are breaking in our applications."
"It has empowered all our platform engineers with a very powerful and easy to use monitoring system."
"Datadog has a lot of features to be able to drill down deep into the swath of logs that our platforms generate."
"Datadog's seamless integration with Slack and PagerDuty helped us to receive alerts right to the most common notification methods we use (our mobile devices and Slack)."
"The ability to easily drill down into log queries quickly and efficiently has helped us to resolve several critical incidents."
"Anything I've wanted to do, I found a way to get it done through Datadog."
"This is definitely a good product and I would consider them one of the leaders within the application monitoring and cloud monitoring space."
"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 helps our NetOps group actually handle alarms in a way that lets them see the bigger picture of those alarms, and how they might affect our services. It helps us communicate information about the network state better to services that might be impacted by a specific network condition."
"This product provides good visibility into applications at the backend."
"The quick notification of issues, quick alerting because timeliness is always valuable, it's very important for us."
"It is easy to understand and determine when and/or where the network is failing."
"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."
"The containerization of different objects was very helpful in building an org structure. Being able to separately manage your MSP clients with separate visibility was also helpful."
"It covers a lot of different types of hardware. It can do a lot and saves us time."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"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."
"They could have better log reporting."
"The installation is easy for me. However, if you are new to this solution it might not be so easy."
"The incident management beta looks promising, but it is still missing the ability to automatically create incidents based on certain alerts."
"The ability to find what you are looking for when starting out could be improved."
"In the past two years, there have been a couple of outages."
"Datadog isn't as mature as some of the established players like Dynatrace or Splunk. It's a new product, so they are constantly releasing new features, and I don't have much to complain about."
"ECS could be improved by including more tutorials for beginners to reduce the barriers to entry."
"DX Spectrum could be improved by them getting rid of the Java console. It would also be better with Turkish language support."
"OS monitoring needs to be better developed, as well as their services, e.g., cluster monitoring, URLs, etc."
"The CA Technologies sales team destroyed their relationship with our business units."
"It needs better integration with other CA products."
"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."
"Event correlation only works on one server, rather than on all of the servers in the same cluster environment."
"For us, the implementation was quite complex but it's because of the large number of different environments we're dealing with."
"Needs better integration with all the other products in the Agile suite of tools; anything they could do to make that less complex, would be great."
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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