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."
"The solution has improved the organization by providing good insights into app performance and offering good dashboards."
"We rely heavily on the API crawlers that Datadog uses for cloud integrations. These allow us to pick up and leverage the tags teams have already deployed without having also to make them add them at the agent level."
"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."
"Datadog has clear dashboards and good documentation."
"The interface and the integrations make it so easy to connect to the cloud or to the on-premise environment."
"It has scaled great. I haven't run into any problems anywhere that I've used it. They have handled everything that we have needed them to."
"The most valuable features of Datadog are the flexibility and additional features when compared to other solutions, such as AppDynamics and Dynatrace. Some of the features include AI and ML capabilities and cloud and analysis monitoring"
"Datadog helps us detect issues early on and helps in troubleshooting."
"Allows us to have a single console/notification point, with the alarms of all the tools that we use for monitoring."
"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."
"All networks (or network equipment) are monitored through CA Spectrum."
"It is easy to navigate."
"It is easy to understand and determine when and/or where the network is failing."
"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 integration point."
"The most valuable features of DX Spectrum are the comprehensive alerts."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Geo-data is also something very critical that we hope to see in the future."
"While I like the ease of use, when compared with Tenable Nessus they could still improve their usability."
"The setup was a bit complex."
"I want to applaud the efforts in making the UI extremely usable and approachable. My suggestion would be to take another look at how the menu structure is put together, however. Even after using the platform mostly every day for months, I still find myself trying to find a service or feature in the menus."
"Lacks some flexibility in the customization."
"It would be great if usage metrics were automatically created and we could create custom metrics, instead we ended up building some of our own stuff to track and alert on our own usage."
"Deploying the agents is still very manual."
"Datadog could have a better business analysis module."
"From the users perspective the looks and feel of dashboards of Spectrum would be easier to use and for understanding as APM will be in 10.5 version which we saw in CA World."
"Technical support for this product is not so good. It needs improvement."
"It was somewhat complex to implement."
"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."
"Event correlation only works on one server, rather than on all of the servers in the same cluster environment."
"It doesn’t give you performance metrics: You need CA eHealth for this."
"The product should provide performance management features."
"The biggest issue is our integration right now between UIM and Spectrum is lacking."
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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